Sep. 18th, 2005

I went shopping yesterday.
The thing that took me longest to decide was the MP3-Player. But yes, I finally got myself one.
It is not an I-Pod, but it's nice and small and has 1 GB of storage space.
(See German site here)

But.
I have a total of maybe two or three songs on this computer here at home, so I can't really try it out.
And at work, I do have some albums I got from friends, but not much.
So ladies and gentlemen, if you have sound files of songs you think I might like, go ahead and send them to me. :-)

I also bought a new pair of sneakers. I really needed them, but it was difficult to get them.
We have this store where they sell nothing but sports shoes, and they really know what they're doing. They measure your feet, and make a video of you running, so they know how your feet move and what you need.
Then I tried on several pairs and they filmed how my feet moved in those. The whole process takes ages, but I feel good about the shoes I finally bought.

I'm having way too much fun shopping, I fear the worst for when I finally have my own place and can go furniture shopping.


Today I got up at half past six to be at the election office on time. I had not been informed on when we would meet, which was odd, but I figured that the person in charge had not done the job before and simply didn't know.
Well.
When I showed up they told me they had counted me out and I was not needed and might as well go home.
Thank you ever so much, I really would not have known what to do in my bed on Sunday morning. There was another lady whom they sent away, and she told me she'd not volunteer for the job ever again. I can understand it, really. But it sucks because we always lack volunteers. And seeing the people that volunteer at this election, I fear the worst for the counting. I know some of them and I do have doubts whether they are able to count at all. Or read.

But whatever, I spent the morning reading the latest edition of Playwitch, and that was much better anyway.

*ROFL*

Sep. 18th, 2005 04:17 pm
Me: Dietrich, what's the storage capacity of your MP3-player?
My brother: 1 Gigabyte.
Me: Mine, too!
He: But mine's longer than yours.
Political post, beware!


I almost puked into my dinner tonight.
Not so much because it seems we're going to be stuck with a chancellor Schröder for another four years, but because he, the same person who stood up and said he could rule this country through the yellow press and TV alone, now stands there telling his minions how good it is that it's now proven it's not the media that decides an election, but the voters.
As if he cared one bit about the voters!

Wait, that's not true. He does care about the voters. He'll tell them everything they want to hear, no matter whether it makes sense or not. And as he so rightly stated, the yellow press is the perfect medium, for those journalists, just as he himself, will never compare what he says today with the quotes from yesterday.

The interesting question now is what color we'll have to go with Schröder's red. (The SPD, Socialist Party of Germany, is traditionally the "Red", the CDU, "Christian Democratic Union", the more conservative party, black, the Green Party green, of course, the left-winged party - new in this election as an association of the former SED; the main party of the German Democratic Republic, later called PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism and don't ask me how that's supposed to work); with the party formed by a group of former SPD members who split off a while ago - dark red, and the liberals are yellow.)

So this leaves us with three main options.
We had Red-Green, but they won't have the majority needed.
There could be Red-Black, but the CDU said that won't happen, and as that would only happen without Schröder and him giving up his post is about as likely as an immediate reunification of North and South Corea, the SPD won't do it either.
There could be Red-Dark Red-Green, in which case I would try to ask for political asylum somewhere. Fortunately, Schröder said he wouldn'T do that. He said it today, so it might last until about next week. If I'm lucky, there has been another decision made by then.
Third option is the traffic light coalition. Red-Yellow-Green. Which would be, IMO, the best of these options. Though I doubt that a governemtn like that would even agree on anything long enough to suggest a law to the parliament or to get anything worked out.
The liberals have been quite open in their support of the industry of any kind, and that includes all those pesky dirty factories the Greens would like to shut down (damn those people working there, they just need to find jobs building solar cells and windmills and in eco-farming - unless we have to imprison all the recently freed chickens again due to all those diseases). Also, it is unlikely nay liberal minister would accept spending non-existing money on social services if it could be much better spent on pushing some life into the economy.
I do have to admit, the last government did start some very necessary reforms of the social system. But as nobody expects a socialist party to do anything but spend money to make people happy, those people will never understand that even a government has a hard time spending money they don't have. Partly, this is due to them having been told for ages that the government is an evil being that sits on huge sacks of money it got from nowhere in particular (as tax money is solely spent on pay for politicians) and is just too greedy to spend it. Before we got Schröder, we had 16 years of CDU government, and the then-opposition was busy telling the people all about the monster that is the government and the secret bags of money. So it was quite a shock for everybody to find out in 1998 that even the SPD couldn't actually conjure up that money. They tried for four years, than Schröder almost lost the election but was saved by a timely flood and pictures of him standing around in the way of the soldiers and volunteers carrying bags of sand around. But then the waters left and the tide turned, and in the "Bundesrat", the part of the parliament where members are delegated by the governments of the states instead of elected directly, there was a majority for the opposition. Who then started to effectfully block even laws they deemed necessary and right, just because they could. And in the end Schröder decided to ask the parliament if they still trusted him, intending to lose the vote to be able to dissolve the parliament and have re-elections.

It was supposed to make things clearer, one way or the other. Instead, the two big parties are as close together as probably never before, and there seems to be little chance for a strong, quickly-deciding government.

We'll see where it goes.

Whatever it is, we will be able to survive another four years. After all, the Americans are currently surviving a total of 8 years of Bush.
And if all else fails, there's still emigration. ;-/

Titus

Sep. 18th, 2005 09:19 pm
I realised I have not yet posted pictures of Titus the cat.
So there's a new gallery at my lj photo album here
I got on the computer around eight, at the latest. It's ten now and I have been sitting on the computer for most of the day. Maybe two hours that I've been doing other stuff.
This is not good.

And I really should go to bed now, as I am kinda tired.

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