I haven't updated in a while. I am alive. I have been very busy with work related stuff. With school getting ready to start, we have been very busy. This job is crazy at times, usually the beginning of fall quarter, aka NOW! I knew it would be, but damn ( Read more... )

Last night it caught up to me. I went to bed at a little after 8. I woke at 7 this morning and was up for 2 hours then slept until 1:45. I'm still a little tired actually so I hope that I'll sleep well tonight ( Read more... )

Lots of clips behind cut.

( Pics galore )

So I am going to start the picture posting...

There will be a lot and will take a while to load...you have been warned. This won't be all of them, but a nice beginning.

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Testing picturing placing. I have only done this a couple of times.

If this posts, this was taken in the City where my Family comes from.

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Well, yesterday was long and tiring, more so than I expected. Mainly due to 8 hours of flight delays. This was annoying as anything, but mad much worse due to major Asthma attacks that started that morning. They had been coming for a couple of days to be sure. I knew they were coming, but I hoped, vainly, that the worst would hit me once I returned ( Read more... )

Well, I just got home about 20 mins ago. I was supposed to get here at 8:30 last night, but nope that didn't work out. That was the LONGEST DAY EVER!!!!

Will update more after I am more up to date with stuff here.

Cheers

Today I crossed Checkpoint Charlie. It is odd now to think that people would get shot back then for doing what I did so easily today. I had a great walking tour of Berlin today, had some amazing beers and finally was able to obtain some gifts for back home ( Read more... )

Seriously, not joking, although I am sure that some of my snarky friends will come with a good punchline for that ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the former communist city, in an area surrounded by Soviet style apartment buildings, lies a lonely blue Boston Red Sox hat that fell, unnoticed, from my lap while I was going over many, many cobble-stone streets. I believe I was the first Brenner to return to Dresden since my Grandfather Max left in 1882. I didn't stay too long myself ( Read more... )