Tuesday, March 12, 2019

12.03.19 - Como tirar leite de pedra

Halloooo,

Hope all well mit du.  Here in Berlin it's perpetually dark and rainy (with occasional snow) and the work never ends, and now on top of it all I seem to have been kidnapped by my boss and forced to spend the whole of 2019 living out of a suitcase in Europe, although I've since worked out a plan and managed to negotiate some time off in September to attend my own wedding, at least.

Otherwise I made the most of the weekend to get the hell out of the flat and pace furiously around town, gorging on pastries and listening to Berlin-era Bowie. On Saturday I went to an exhibition on Bauhaus at the Bröhan Museum, which was basically just a bunch of uncomfortable-looking chairs, but was pretty cool nonetheless, then wandered around the Westend and briefly into the Haus des Rundfunks, which is fun to visit and to say even (although I apparently need to book the full tour to look around properly).

In the evening I went for a mighty fine burger with my flat/workmates, and on to the Sony Centre to watch the perfectly adequate Captain Marvel on the biggest IMAX screen I've ever seen. Then on Sunday I had a bit of a breakthrough, transport-wise, when I used the Deezer Nextbike app to commandeer a Berlin Velib to the outskirts of Teufelsberg, before the freezing rain drove me back home to regroup. 

I've made a new compilation, and my phrase of the week, dedicated to our increasingly delayed and hapless software developers, means "like drawing milk from a stone", which is Brazilian for "like drawing blood from a stone".  

Tschüss!
Frederhosen

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