i just added my coordinates to this blog’s metadata. so now, if you click here, you’ll find my neighbors in meatspace. theoretically, at least.
because it seems like my only real-world neighbors are booking-agents.

well, that’s austria.

speaking of which – this satellite image shows where i live: overview – detail
wow. we’re really just a tiny nest of yodelers in leather trousers :wink:

i also liked these images: huge overview, the alps

i’m two weeks late, but still…

on february 25th we had a little class reunion in one of the coziest cafés of innsbruck – mieze schindler.

many friends came, and some who weren’t really invited (who the hell told lorenz? i thought he was on vacation, anyway… :wink:).

our waitress, “nette notburga” (nice notburga), was very kind and patient. she even brought me a spoon when i asked for one to crush the slice of lemon that i ordered with my coke. LOL
i should probably stop harassing waiters…

it was really nice seeing those again who came, and it’s a pity that some didn’t/couldn’t come. after all, it was a really funny evening – we should definitely repeat that sometime soon!

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currently, there’s not much “present” going on in my life.
a lot of “past” though, and even more “future”…

because i’m usually not willing to disclose anything in the future that isn’t 100% certain (probably in an attempt to compensate for all the people who talk and talk and never do what they say), here’s a little summary of my “current past”:

i’ve been confronted (in a good way) with the pictures of our graduation trip to kos/greece (summer 2003), recently. somehow i still can’t believe how much fun we had together.

because i have stored the pictures of kos in the same folder as the pictures of our last official school day, i was compelled to watch these, too. shortly after, i found myself searching for the pictures of our school-trip to venice in october 2002 (one of them is posted already).

i’ve picked three images from those past three events to show here. i know it’s not much, but i like them.
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and then, when i was sorting out a LOT of cd’s that were lying around, i stumbled across the one that niki and i recorded back in borg (equals high school). niki is great at jamming, so we did lots of variations of what we were actually supposed to play during borg piano lessons. i don’t know how it came, but one day we recorded some of the songs on our teacher’s dat-recorder – it even was a day off school!

there you go:

[listen to sample]
niki dolp & markus nolf – fips in the park – zip [mp3], 2,1MB

i hate curious strangers! especially curious old women! :evil:

i’m looking for an office (within the building that i’m standing in) and ask somebody for the way. and the older woman behind her first tells me she doesn’t know where it is AND starts asking questions: “what do you want to do there anyway?”

since i apparently show a lack of “spontaneous direct unkindness”, she had all the answers she wanted within a short time. seems like i’ll need to have a standard “WHO THE FCUK ARE YOU? THIS DOESN’T CONCERN YOU!”-answer available for those situations. :mad:

there are a few wardrobe malfunctions that i recently took care of:

• i discovered that the picture-popup window is misplaced on mac computers (interestingly, that happens in safari as well as firefox!).
  the javascript that resizes and relocates the window has been disabled for mac users now.
• i’ve finally straightened out the stupid css/font-setting that (amongst other things) makes “cl” look like a “d” on some pages. looks like i’ll have to sort my css-sheet sometime – it’s pretty chaotic…
• the blog’s categories are now sorted by name. i was annoyed at the chronological sorting…

unfortunately i don’t quite know how to correct the firefox misinterpretation on the categorized gallery. the submenu is meant to be just one line high (like MSIE interprets it), but the select-box is for some reason inflating it…

this timeframe’s lyrics quote is kind-of hard to write down, since it’s an instrumental irish song :???:
and although there are background singers, doing long AH’s, i’ll leave the lyrics part empty:

[lyrics quote of the moment]

the corrs – erin shore

i’m talking about the “forgiven, not forgotten”-special edition they did. in this version, they have a very special centerpiece. when the flutes and harp are introduced in the main-voice intermission, i feel like i’m in wonderland.
maybe this is because i’ve played a little too much “heroes of might and magic”, but it really sounds magical!
the percussion (reminding me of stomp a lot) that follows has a very exciting/motivating impact on me.
and besides, it’s a traditional irish tune – and i love almost every one of them!

[die deutsche version dieses eintrags ist weiter unten]

we are now renting out our new vacation apartment in spain.
it’s located just outside of denia, right between alicante and valencia (map).

for a weekend project (a week ago), i’ve implemented a small, informative …booklet.
unfortunately for those of you who don’t speak any german (again), it’s only written in my native language: suaheli german.

you can still go there, enjoy the nice pictures of our facilities and get some german information on our vacation home in denia!

tom and sandra returned from spain a few days ago, so there will be some more pictures up (on the denia-page) in a few days.

wohnung zu vermieten in denia / spanien!

wir vermieten jetzt unsere neue ferienwohnung in spanien.
die wohnug liegt etwas ausserhalb von denia, zwischen alicante und valencia (karte).

in einem wochenend-projekt habe ich (letzte woche) eine kleines, informatives …büchlein mit informationen und fotos zur wohnung, anlage und umgebung erstellt.

tom und sandra sind erst kürzlich von ihrem urlaub in denia zurück gekommen – daher gibt es schon bald mehr fotos auf der denia-homepage.

hier noch der link: