Heinous in Germany - 16 Jan 2001
Once again, I woke up and made an interesting breakfast of peanut butter and apples, cheese, salz sticks, and coffee. Marc stopped by, to walk me over to the U-Bahn, so I imposed my strange ideas of fruhstuck upon him. He was a bit taken aback by my strange ideas involving peanut butter and apples. Apparently this is really strange to German people. I made him eat it, and it seemed he liked it okay, after all.
We stopped by the train station, so that I could purchase my tickets for Zürich (Switzerland). They were a little more expensive than I had imagined, but not too bad. They were about 211DM, which is roughly 104USD. Cheaper than a flight, but not by a heck of a lot.
We went for lunch, once again, in the "porno cafe" (see January 9, 2001). I had some nice chile con carne, which seems to be quite good there. Marc and Randall were with me for lunch, and once again, the inevidable topic of discussion turned to the Oakland office, and would it survive? Personally, I am getting tired of all of this talk of what we are doing wrong, and what needs to change, because talk will not get anyone anywhere, without action. Although, for the most part, I must say that I agree with Randall. The situation is rather depressing in the Office, at the moment, in Oakland. I personally, am wondering what I should do. I enjoy helping out with the PPC distribution. I do not really want to be in Business support, and I have discussed this to a degree with management in Oakland, probably not as much as I should. I would even be willing to work in documentation, or something like that, but do not want to do business support. Ah well. I will have to talk to Marcus or Chris (managerial types) about the situation, and see if there is any possibility that Germany can support me to continue with what I want to do in the company. Perhaps I will work from the German office, in the near future. Then again, I could just be let the smoke out}blowing smoke out of my ass (pardon the French). I suppose I have the next week to think about if I should talk to someone or not. Marcus is sick at the moment, so I have to wait until next week anyway, if I want to talk to him.
After lunch, I went down to work on the partitioning section of the PPC manual with Marc. That was fun. During this time, Olaf finally made his debut! He got a haircut. We battled with this thing, and some other issues that nearly threatoned my trip to Switzerland, in the form of an email I discovered. I'll not go into the details on that, however, there was just a missunderstanding about what I would be doing this next Sunday night and Monday.
After work, we went to eat in the dungeon! There was a Frankonian restaurant called something that translated to "The Barefooter" in English. The food was really quite good. I had a big, huge, cabbage roll and some mashed potatos. Olaf, Marc, Randall, and I went. Randall seems to like eating anything with Kartoffeln in it. Marc explained, at the "porno cafe" earlier that a Kartoffel was a potato. Ever since, Randall has been prone to order food with Kartoffeln in it. I do the same, because I like saying the word, "Kartoffel".