I’m in Germany - w00t!
May 26th, 2005 by Mark
Well, I made it. I’m posting this from some internet cafe in Stuttgart, Germany. The plane ride was a blast. It was really cool to see what I’m guessing was some part of New York or Long Island from that height in the dark. Each streetlight looked like a christmas tree light. The food they served us on the plane wasn’t that bad. While I was eating I was thinking about how flying is entirely ridiculous. We were never meant to fly. I almost laughed out loud. There I was something like 35000 feet over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean eating some pasta/chicken dish and a brownie. Fuck you nature - we’ll make wings. haha. I woke up over France. Yeah - France is just a bunch of farms. That’s it. I came over here and I looked at it and it’s all farms.
Once I landed in Stuttgart I exchanged my US cash for Euros. It’s a very weird experience to hand a person a bunch of $50 bills and have them hand you four pieces of paper that look fancy, have numbers on them, but don’t really hold any value in your mind. What are these things, fancy receipts or something? I dig that they have 1€ and 2€ coins though. Oh, when I got on the train, some kid sat across from me and he was wearing a shirt that said, “Long Island” on it. Pretty freaking weird.
It’s very weird to go to google and get redirected to www.google.de by the way. I’ve got to remind myself to setup webmail for myself because right now I don’t have a way of checking my email. That wouldn’t be such a problem except that if there’s any news about the conference I’ll be getting it in email. Bah. I took a bunch of pictures already, I’ll try and post them later if I get some access from my laptop. Alright - I’m going to try and find some food that isn’t *wurst. Later.
You basically eat airline food every day for lunch (unless I force you and your weak will to get something super-fabulous). Your “lean cuisine” is probably why you thought that crap “wasn’t that bad.” Glad you’re not dead. Enjoy the rest of the trip. nlm
Nice to hear your enjoying your world traveling experience.
As for your mail, this would be a nice time for a gmail “i told you so” as everyone should use gmail. Besides that, what kind of email you use that you can’t access it?
If it’s POP or IMAP I could set up a web frontend for ye’ if you need. Email me some details.
You can reach me on gmail
Mike: The airline food was exactly like a Lean Cuisine - except Lean Cuisines don’t come with a brownie and a roll.
John: My mail is IMAP, but this internet cafe doesn’t have anything installed that will connect to my IMAP server. I think I could hook my laptop up in here, but I haven’t done that yet. Thanks for the webmail frontend offer, but I’ll have access tomorrow at the conference, so I’ll be able to check my mail then.