Books This Summer

 

Despite it was a rather shit#y summer I found time to sit outside and enjoy books.

Most of you will laugh about the mini-amount, though... 

 

I am short-sighted, so I read with my glasses off.

 

 

290 short stories about coincidences. You sit outside and keep shaking your head in astonishment!

 

 I admit, not done yet. Supersmall font. Tiring for the eyes!

 

 

This was a huge disappointment as most places are not in Braunschweig but in the area, like Salzgitter, Goslar etc...

 

 

Interesting, sad, scary and sometimes good. The main fire station is ten minutes on foot from here but no, you never hear them, thankfully!

 

 Our sweet Henry...

 

 Scary stories of brave men and women.

 

 

To animals!

 

 On the train from Dortmund on my old kindle. Such a sweet, clever, funny woman!

 

Very interesting!

 

 Very interesting, too, oh, but please stop giving me book-tips, other I really need to retire...

Interesting but too detailed... some I just did overfly.

And yes. Ingo hated the old tablecloth I loved so much. 

Now I wait for Charlotte...

It warmed up and as Tom reminded me yesterday was TODAY IS NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY... I yesterday started this:

Gaußberg is like 10 minutes from here in the other direction, dedicated to Carl Friedrich Gauß, just walk out the door, turn left, left again, pass the Gauß-bridge meet Gauß (his statue) and there is the little hill named after the genius. Pics from 2017.... at night.... here. 

 

The pics really turned out great (I know, one should never say that about oneself, but they are really cool).

Huuuuh, scary!

Well, and that was that.

Henry 🦁

 

 

Are you really? Maybe I should pick another book... Maybe this:

Yes. From my pocket-money. In French.... Gah. Nerd, huh...

Crow With Henry

This week I wanted to buy a calendar for my journal, at Weiss. Weiss has no books, but also not the journal I wanted and I made  a terrible mistake.

 I went to Graff. And.... came home with... more books. And a Braunschweig-Calendar on the Light-Parcours we missed last year.

And this...

 Instead of this beauty:

 

I got a plain red one. Remember: Next year go earlier- I hoped like going last year the calendar is reduced,this time they were all were gone.

This one has "importanf phone numbers" on page 1- there is still existing the "time announcement"???

Henry 🦁

Luckily I also had this bag with which I like to join Eileen:

 

 

 Dinosaurs are critters, too, right?

Finally:

The series:

"This is how we shopped in the 20th century

 

 1965

 

If you think chaotic behavior and crowd mentality are just 21st century phenomena, take a look at this picture from the 1960s. Then bargain hunters storm a porcelain exhibition at Selfridges in London, with no regard for manners or decency."

Wanna Join Me?

In the Summertime.... when the weather... hello earworm.... I finally sat on the balcony reading.

Here are some highlights from Brian May´s 3-D-booK.

 

Enjoy maybe with this, sound on!

 

Did you know some whopping 33 years after the mission of the Saturn V rocket an artifact fell down on earth in 2002? 33 years in orbit!

 

The moon-region named "Ocean of Storms" had been visited by many unmanned spacecraft, amongst Surveyor 3, Ranger 7, Soviet Lunar 5 - it was called "Pete´s Parking Lot" by Pete Conrad from the Apollo 12 -mission :-)

A funny man, he named the LEC (Lunar Equipment Conveyor) the "Brooklyn clothesline".

 

And Alan Bean by accident left some film rolls behind, they´re still on the Moon´s surface!

What a book!

 

On Earth they were direct: Gene Kranz with Apollo 13 on a problem in outer space: "Failure is not an option." 

 

On Apollo 14 they nicknamed the MET (Modular Equipment Transporter) "lunar rickshaw". 

Love these little details I had no idea of!

They were a bunch!

 

"Shepard plopped a golf ball  onto the lunar surface... as test to the weaker lunar gravity, relative to Earth." He couldn´t pick it up by hand and  tried another shot. "'Hey, you got more dirt than ball', said Mitchell".

 

I liked this very much and wonder why just in space this seems to be possible: 

"Alongside the direct competition, Soviet and American Space explorers were forming a brotherhood that would become stronger and stronger as the months and years passed." 

 

 

Teach this in school!!!

 

Apollo 15: Queen played their first show outside of London just a month before space-launch, in 1970 (if I read that correct out of the context). 

The four lunar rovers, btw cost $38 million, so with "$9.5 million each, price-wise, they definitely  leave Ferraris and Lamborghinis in the dust!"

 

They were lying, too!

Scott on the way spotted a large piece of vesicular basalt and despite time was short he stopped the vehicle and went for it "while Irwin distracted controllers in Houston. Because Scott pretended he had stopped to tighten his seatbelt, this rock was dubbed the Seatbelt Basalt".

Cute, huh?

 

Apollo 17: They used duct tape to fix the problem, duct tape! Always good to have that at hand...

 

And certainly Chris Hadfield on the ISS... 

 

 

Depending on how fast you read... the video from minute 02:48 shows our wonderful planet at night...

Originally by David Bowie and the day after Bowie´s first recording Queen came in with the song  "Earth", back then under the name "Smile " and without Freddie. 

 

The rest you need to read yourself and hopefully you are more successful than me to "get" the 3d-visions.

I sat on the balcony like an idiot, glasses by the side, the Little Owl in my face, trying to find the right spot! 

 

 Henry 🦁

 

 If you are new see here, with video!

It´s a GREAT video, I promise, this is a great school-project! 

Well, logical,  Braunschweig is/ was the City of Science (2007) and they keep on going!

Dammit Janet

 

Well,it´s not Janet.

It´s all of you! Please, where is the time-dealer???

 

Thank you, Mae. Now when I am supposed to read this? Who of you made me buy the one on owls????

As if I don´t go at myself anyways!!! I need to retire!

 

Please, dear people... stop giving me book-ideas - I take them!!! And I find more on my own!

Henry 🦁

 

 Then read to me!

T STands For Wonderful NighT

 

 

My ticket to Elizabeth´s T, a nice summer-drink.

 

The journal:

Monday: I had nothing to do, really. We still wait for Barcelona!

So... Braunschweig book. Aka I am here, you can call me anytime if you have work, all work is done so far!

I plain hate such days.

You could say, hey, how cool is that?! But I don´t feel fine doing private stuff at work.

I managed to repair the Spanish document on my own, and that was that (I was a tad proud of myself). Sorted my notes so I´m faster in the future...

It makes no sense to "learn" about Word/Excel without a problem.

Did that at Siemens, never needed any of it. 

It warmed up to 26C/79F > more reading on the balcony after Ingo came home to put up the heavy sun-brolly. Three Braunschweig crime-thrillers in one day.

Are there Perth crime-thrillers? I need to find out!

 

Tuesday: Called the tax-office for help. A super-mega-friendly man helped me out VERY BIG! For the condos I have for rent in another city I had to call my half-cousin. He´s actually an as#hole.

Super-friendly and .... quick!!!

Lost one table and had to retype again.

But Teamleader3 had a look on the doors and was very content! 😁

For a change I translated from German to English for Spain. 

It is and stays chaotic. At least never boring!

Slowly went back to training, 2 sessions.

 

Wednesday: Had to translate to English - in a .pdf and no, I don´t have a pro-tool for that.  Means I had to squeeze it all in, looks like a kid pimped it!

And I found out how to alter text-fields in MS Word, yippee, again something to share quickly.

(Most of us come from different fields and help peach other).

 

Door bell. Our colored, nice, young postie, "for Sch...???"

That is why I kept my surname, LOL.

Ingo got something REALLY cool, I´ll share soon.

3 sessions of training.

Then watched Schindler´s Liste on TV (found the book in the street before and read it).  

 

Thursday: I finished the documents and waited for teamleader3 who has a new task for me. Nothing, nada, thought the poor fella fell sick.

Luckily ALSTOM teamleader allows me using ALSTOM university.

One video was especially interesting, I will share soon.

 

Lunch time, Ingo, who had a day off, informed me there is a docu on trains, that´s what I watched. On my lunch break. 🚊

 

02:15 teamleader3 went green in teams and called.

Said ALSTOM teamleader told him off for working - in Hessen, where #3 lives, they have a public holiday and despite he works for our company in Braunschweig he has to take the day off, he told me, laughing. In fact, he laughed a bit crazily the whole time!

3 sessions of training. AND!!!! 26C/78F!! Ingo got new, smaller sunbrollies and I had some balcony-time! Weird weather.

 

Friday: I usually start my day with visiting Tom. What do I find? Jupps, railroad! 🚊

Later bad news. Barcelona pauses documentation/translation.

ALSTOM-teamleader told me first, said he definitively wants me back when this is resumed and he tries to find out if I can stay and go to Tram Cologne.

We chatted for over an hour.

He also will ask a former colleague if it can be arranged we visit the making of the ALSTOM Midland-Line in Perth! (Chances are low, though... I´m external!) 

Then he informed teamleader2 and teamleader3 who called me to say I might join my Russian colleague, who really is a nice guy. It would be signalling but likely documentation only, which is rather boring. Not a chance (I assume) to learn about the technical details.

His last words: Do not worry, enjoy the weekend. (I write this on Friday, so more to come next T-Day).

And we obeyed and started with a BBQ.

3 training sessions - crazy how the body resumes so fast!

At night Ingo said, come outside. We took Henry (candle light) and - with long clothes, enjoyed the evening on the balcony - as.only.ones. - again!!!

What is it with the people here???? Nights like these are a PRESSIE!!! 

 

Weekend: Saturday: The egg-glass is out. Ingo went grocery-shopping and again came home with flowers 💐

 

 So, now the flowers travel from private-pc to work-pc to balcony and back...

 

I had cleaning day again, oh, I hate it. But! I found iron ore rings from 2015 when they were $1! Last time they were $7 and I was  like really sad when mine I bought anyways broke (that goes super-quick!).

Later we had BBQ again.

 

 "Art":

 

 

I´m not really content but Ingo liked it.

Food:

 

 ... from the balcony. I prefer them plain, though.

I expect the Smurfs coming by for a meal...

Henry 🦁

 

With this: Happy T-Day!