Thursday, September 28, 2006

Election Massacre

Elections are coming up in Austria, which means fellow me has to vote. I applied for my "Wahlkarte" (the thingy you need to vote outside your hometown) about two weeks ago. Guess when it arrived... Today. Well, what would one expect from good ol' snail mail? But that's not enough. Now I'm left with 3 days finding me someone with an Austrian passport. Alternatively I could go to the embassy. Conveniently the Amsterdam embassy is closed these days, and the nearest one is in Den Haag, about an hour and half away from here. Well, at least their opening hours are rather generous (7-12 am). And since it would all be way to easy for me anyway, I have to return the goddamn thing by 9th of October, which might be quiet tricky concerning the two weeks it took to get everything over here in the first place.

And everything just to choose between a douche and a turd...

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Still no treasuer

Again I'm here to tell you that I haven't found the treasure yet; Whatever it might be. Dutch is improving a lot, though I won't bother you with that for now. Rather fed up with work, can't tell you much about it, since it's all top secret (no, it's not, but I'm lazy). Will go to a big conference some time next week, which will keep me rather busy. So I'll try to do my treasure hunting during the weekend and will keep you all updated eventually. Hope I'm not disappointing you again.

To someone: Didn't really mean to be that rude, somehow got left with hardly any other choice. Maybe it's better that way.

To someone else: Lost in frustration, however feeling like good things will happen soon.

To someone completely different: Girls suck? Tell me something I didn't know already.

Good night!

Friday, September 22, 2006

Dumdidum

Another week almost over and still no news on the promised treasure hunt. Weather was bad last sunday and me pretty lazy these days. Lots of work to catch up with while not even being sure weather to look forward to the weekend or not. Dutch course started... Ik ben Franz en ik woon in Amsterdam. Pretig met u kennis te maken. But that's about it, will change soon however. Soon nobody will notice that I haven't lived here since the day I was born. Also my Backgammon skills are getting better. If you see some guys hanging out at a corner in the Brouwersgracht playing Backgammon one of them is probably me. Still have to beat the master of Backgammon called Damien. But soon... Soon revenge will come. Ah, well. Probably boared you enough already. Work is hunting me down. Have a nice weekend everybody!

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Lobster Pron

At last, some new photos from wednesday. The inital party interntion did not quiet work out as planned. Which meant more lobster for us. Us speaking as Dorian, Damien and my humble self. Enjoy (pictures of) the feast.


Appart from that I give you another cool psycho test right here. Let's see if you should start a band or rather practice your skills along with Led Zepplin's Stairway to Heaven.

Some outlook on upcoming things. There might be a quiet interesting treasure hunt going on for you guys to follow. But more on that topic early next week.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Sheep

A good good friend of mine who has been visiting me for the last week is on his way back to Vienna.

Reason: He has to do his radio show this very night.

The show is called sheep, as the title suggest, and features the finest ska music one could imagine.

If you live in Vienna tune your radio to 94.0 at midnight. Otherwise check out sheeps website and listen to the live stream here.

A few starting times converted to other (non CET) timezones:

  • 11:00:00 p.m. Thursday September 14, 2006 in London
  • 06:00:00 p.m. Thursday September 14, 2006 in New York
  • 03:00:00 p.m. Thursday September 14, 2006 in Los Angeles
  • 07:00:00 a.m. Friday September 15, 2006 in Tokyo
  • 08:00:00 a.m. Friday September 15, 2006 in Sydney
  • 02:00:00 a.m. Friday September 15, 2006 in Moscow
Happy skankin'

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Holiday over

It was a good week. Very relaxing, however also not much to tell. Sitting in cafes most of the time playing backgammon. No photos at all, as usual, but maybe some other day.

Something unrelated, take this fun personality test here. My results will not be published.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Holiday

Today is my last day of work for this week. Which means a veeeeerrrry long weekend to come. And hopefully I can supply you with some nice pictures before your weekend turns in.

People did quiet well with the voting thingy. So far we have 28 correct votes. Glad you seemed to like it. 50 votes was more then I expected. I'll probably find some new fun stuff to put up within the next days, so stay tuned!