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I just came home at 5am again. I must be in better shape than I thought to do so much going out.

We're going to try this "Terrentino" crap for the first time today. This is what the guy said to me. "Maybe one, but not all three." (This isn't as funny as the Dane version of QT-style, but a literary genius-in-training, such as myself needs to practice all forms of written communication.) "Maybe one, but not all three."

I left my apartment this afternoon in one of my less-nice pairs of jeans, dirty tennis shoes and a hoody. I went to buy a gift for someone in the trainee pool whose birthday is monday. We have been buying gifts for everyone as a group. All of the girls were at a SWE conference, so I was nominated to buy the gift. Anyway, I was dressed to go out and do a little shopping, be comfortable and such. I met a couple of buddies who helped me find the gift. We did our other errands, I bought two belts (reversable ones are pieces of shit), two 470pF Kondensatoren, an S-video cable, solder, a soldering iron, a little screw driver, and a tiny-ass project box. Then we all went and had our dinners. One of the guys went home and made himself dinner. The other guy and I went to Subway. Subway is the only place I have found where I can buy mountain dew. So I bought a liter of mountain dew. It cost be approximately 4 Euros, but I got Subway stamps, biatches. After dinner, we watched Anchorman at one of the guys' apartments. But you know what they say... "When in Rome..." Actually, I still don't know what that means.

So after the movie, one of the guys just wanted to go to bed because sometimes he is a bum. He acts like he's fifty. The other guy and I convinced him to go out, have a drink and just chill with us for a while. We met another friend, then went out to Cafe & Bar Celona. (Read it outloud and you'll probably understand the brilliance of the name.) A few of our friends where there already, but as soon as we ordered drinks, they left. The french guy went over and tried to talk to 3 girls at a different table for him, the brazilian and the other american. Anyway, the guys decided the girls weren't what they were looking for, so we left and tried to go to another bar where we could just sit and have a drink or two. We walked to another bar and when we tried to go in, I was stopped. The guy said a whole string of shit to me in German as he pointed at my feet and my legs and so on and so on. I understood only the part where he said "tennis shoes". I just looked at him blankly for a moment then replied in German, "I only understood 'something about my dirty tennis shoes.' You do not allow tennis shoes, right?" In brilliant English, the bouncer replied, quite matter-of-factly "It is not that you are wearing tennis shoes, but they are dirty and jeans are ok, but only when they fit you better, not so baggy, and hooded sweatshirts are also not liked unless they also fit you better. These things are not ok. Maybe one, but not all three."

So my friends laughed at me for the next 20 minutes as we walked to the next Irish pub for a beer. That pub was closed too, so we went to the club where our other friends were, even though from the start, we didn't want to go dancing. I don't know what time we got there, but I wound up leaving about 4. We probably got there at 3 or something, I guess. Then several of us walked to the train station and tried to catch the train, but we just missed it. We went back to try to get some food for the drunk girl. We wound up running back to the train station so we could just barely make the next train.

Fabelhaft!

BTW - if you have questions regarding any of the Deutsch worter that wind up here, use this translator, its very good. LEO German/English translator There is so much crap there. There are even links to this site called "Canoo" which I think will teach you more grammar than you learned between kindergarten and high school. English and German grammar.

Watching the weather channel (or International Weather on CNN International, which is exactly the same) always makes me feel like I am in a hotel, not matter where I am. That is a ridiculous association.