This is a great game (at least I think so), where you have to arrange colors by hue order. My score was 3, which seems to be pretty good. How well do you do?
Here’s one not-so-clever idea on how to spend your evening. Watch a movie with your significant other and then both fall asleep around the same time, optimistically assuming that the other will stay awake and be able to tell you how it ended.
There’s one proof that there’s a limited capacity for the human brain to learn from experience. As in: Why the hell do we still try to go to IKEA on a Saturday? Basically there are two reasons for this: a) The only other day we could go is after work on a workday and 2) it’s exactly the same thing then, because everyone who’s clever enough not to opt for Saturday is going then. So it all boils down to a rain and gutter thing there and it really stops mattering.
We do have new pictures on the walls now, some kitchen equipment (more cutlery, yay!) and a nice green glass plate to put on the MALM cupboard which makes more of a difference than you might think. And, well, yeah, more stuff. Because that’s what happens when you go to IKEA when you don’t need furniture. I can at least say that we a) got more or less stuff we needed (if having images on formerly plain white walls count as need) and b) we assembled (as in hanged on the wall or cleaned and put where it belonged) nearly everything on the same evening, which is a huge thing considering I still have that book shelf we bought like a hundred years ago standing sadly in the corner.
There’s also two more things I learned, and probably will forget when it really counts:
a) RIBBA picture frames suck. They look nice, but I’m getting mildly aggressive assembling them. (Won’t stop my buying new ones, I suspect.)
b) Go with the flow. Going the other way around in IKEA on a Saturday compares to trying to stand alone against a herd of elephants rushing towards you. Although I might actually prefer the elephants if I had to choose.
I think that iTunes should have some kind of wishlist. Not actually for other people to buy me stuff (although that’s always appreciated), but for me to remember songs that I might want to buy in the future, depending on how my bank account looks. Mostly like my amazon wishlist which I don’t really expect anyone to order stuff for me, but I need to keep track of all the things that look interesting. If there already is such a thing and I missed it, please tell me, because I’d really like that.
I also think that I have already raved about that CD store I „discovered“ here in Düsseldorf, after having been repeatedly disappointed by the CD selection of the bigger chains here. It’s a quite small shop, located in one of the small shopping centers, so discovered seems not like the right word given that there was no way I would have ever missed it. There might have been a way I would never have walked into it, because I’m wary when it comes to small CD shops. Most of the times they just have the Top Forty stuff and that’s it. This one though is run by two guys who really like what they’re doing and they always stock up on good new stuff, so that I can hardly walk out of there without having bought something (50 percent of the time it includes the album they’re playing on the sound system while I’m browsing). They’re also good with importing stuff, CDs and DVDs alike.
Long story short: This is what I bought last Friday, and it’s both great, so check it out.
Clare and The Reasons: The Movie
EmilÃana Torrini: Me and Armini (I mean, EmilÃana always works, so I couldn’t really go wrong with that.)
(Also try Alice Sings the Petterson Songbook, which is so wonderfully retro in a sixties-Bacharach style that it makes me really happy.)
I still need some shelves for the kitchen and we also need some pictures for all of these damn walls around here, but after my paint job, we finally got our lamps installed and now it nearly feels like we’re done. Not quite, but close enough to fool yourself to believe it.
This is how it looks like now:
Google Chrome makes me so damn happy for a variety of reasons. It’s not just that it’s pretty and fast. It also has a couple of developer tools integrated that – without having a lot of experience working with them yet – look like they do about exactly what I want them to do.
Sigh.
I think the whole thing including setting everything up and tidying up after took me about ten to twelve hours. But so worth it.
I have blisters on my hand and am covered in red and green (and a couple of white) sprinkles, but I’m also really proud. Need to paint everything once more tomorrow, but then it should be done. (And hopefully look as good as I hope it will.)
We’re home. The unsecured network apparently was a weekend thing. It disappeared on Monday and returned on Saturday morning, so I couldn’t upload or write anything during the week. Worse things have happened.
I will write more and upload the rest of the pictures on flickr later. Until then enjoy the flying stork pictures and just imagine that I saw storks. And lots of them. Isn’t that something?
