opening hours

surfing the net I just found this:
the uppers sign says "Republic of Austria" and below it reads "open from 6 a.m to 9 p.m"
I love these kind of things.

lego me

I saw gf creating a lego person on this website and being an old lego pro, I wanted to do that too.
So I went ahead and made a "me in 10 years" lego person.
I'm giving in to the fact that my hair will always look like I'm wearing a brown pot and also the choice of book came with the limited amount of backgrounds...
I have added it to my flickr since blogger wouldn't let me up load it to here...

so sorry.

edit: here's another one

last saturday

last saturday gf f with a visit to the worlds' oldest zoo. our zoo. the viennese zoo.
as a kid I used to go a lot and it was pretty cool. they have done a lot and are still doing to give these animals a good home. and one might say about wild animals in captivity, but they take good care of them.
so we had a very nice and relaxing day and I was overjoyed to have day off from life. thanks to gf for that. she even brought food and tea - very delicious.

of course we took pictures and I've uploaded them to my flickr...

bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies...

as requested by shazza, I tried to capture our bunnies with my camera. i failed. As soon as the lens focuses the bunny is gone. I got some of them, though and they're at my flickr.

my shopping spree

for everyone who doesn't know: I hate shopping.
for everyone who already knew: I still do.

this is me before i go shopping. happy, content, maybe a little fearful already.










first off, everyone is stupid. secondly, all the shops are stupid. thirdly, all the designers are too thin and blind.

people are shuffling through the streets, not looking or caring if they smash their bags into other people, not looking or caring if they step on other peoples toes and not looking or caring that what they attempt to buy looks awful! fashion victims all over the place.
Is there no place where you can buy decent garments? I'm not talking about those t-shirts that will fall apart when you dare to look at them. I don't wanna be un-pc but clothes had better quality when they were not produced by children in taiwan and indonesia, but by almost women in latin america.
of course production was more expensive too then, so the big cheeses settled for asia. but why on earth did prices go up then???
I get less for more. and it's not that the workers get more from my money. arrrgh.
so then the shops are overcrowded and people just don't care anymore.
but fashion. well, who is supposed to wear that? why do so-called designers never wear their stuff, but always come in simple and casual black stuff? Why do ordinary people with ordinary bodies have to wear these obnoxious insults for the eye and body?
I don't wanna wear jeans that look like leggings, really I DON'T. I'm fine that they offer them for people who do, but why on earth do I have to go into 5 shops to finally find one who didn't throw out all the normal jeans for leggings shaped ones?

Dear shop-owners, it's ok to sell fashion, just please don't forget about those who do not suffer from fashionitis.
Dear designers, go fuck yourselves.

this is me after shopping. on the floor and exhausted.

I guess I'll frame and hang my old pair of jeans, for my kids to see how jeans had nice shapes when I was young...

help wanted!

having spent some time online trying to find input on how to name our future bunnies, I figured we might need help.
We had some ideas, but that doesn't mean we need no help.
So if you have an idea of how to call our bunnies, please feel free to help us. Popculture references are very welcome.
This is the sister bunny














and her brother

new glasses

After meeting a friend for a coffee today I got texted that my new glasses are ready to be picked up. So I got on my bike and rode through half of the town to get my glasses, then I rode to yet another part of town back home. Completely out of breath - because I never really manage to go slow - I arrived at home and stepped into the shower.

And here they are. Swell right?

The sofa has landed

I won't comment on the fight with gf yesterday because it's just too stupid.
Instead I have story about IKEA.
Usually IKEA is fun. Sometimes they entertain me to tears.
On saturday we bought ektorp, a white and very comfortable sofa that is also a bed, nice. It was ok to get it onto my dad's tiny trailer, also getting it out of there wasn't the greatest problem...
So the couch held by two people is standing on the street not quite on the sidewalk, two meters tall waiting to be carried into our living room, but noone can. We tried to heave it, but we couldn't. We had gotten it all the way from one end of the town to another but now we were gonna fail the last few meters. We were already calling up the traditionally stronger male friends we knew, who all had good reasons not to get out of the house and help us. With a bit of help from a neighbor we finally managed to get it into the second floor. Everything was fine again. but this is an old story that you maybe read in my last posting with less details due to exhaustion.
We are still talking about an IKEA product so of course something was missing. A small cover/cap thing that keeps the feet of the bed - that our sofa can be if needed - from scratching our wooden floor.
I decided to call IKEA today and have them send something like that over. haha.
I called and the nice lady on the receiver told me to bring back the ektorp for them to see that something is missing (even if I would bring it back, could I not just leave the "missing" part at home?) and not to forget the receit. so that's when I started to laugh. I had thought that this might happen, but I didn't really believe it until it did.
I kindly (or maybe not so kindly) asked her if she missed any of her marbles lately and if she could please just send such a cover/cap thingie over. She said that this wasn't policy (reeeaaallly?) and that I at least would need to bring the receit.
After telling her that she had the very same receit in her computer and she would just have to look it up I canceled the conversation and asked her to put me through to a person at storage. She managed to do that and the guy who talked to me then kindly asked if I had been so unlucky as to call the useless customer service girl. He told me he'd go up to the shop and get the thing off one of their sofas and have it sent to me in no time. I talked to the woman for about 10 minutes and I talked to the storage guy for about 2.
Now here's the prize question: Does IKEA work efficently?