Photos
Photo-y goodness. Unfortunately they all seem somewhat out of focus… I hope it’s the fact that I took them to El Cheapo ™ Photo Developing, rather than that my camera has fscked three whole films… they seem uniformly out-of-focus, so here’s hoping it’s the developing. I might take my favourite photos to another place for reprinting, to see if they do it any better; if it’s better I’ll get a better place to scan them to a CD and put sharper photos online. Meanwhile, I’ve processed them a bit to make them bearable.
As always: http://www.ockle.org/photos.
More specifically: Amess Street housewarming, and breakfast with Richard; the first film in Saarbrücken and Sarreguemines; and the second film from Sarreguemines and Saarbrücken.
And of course you want to see some more mundane photos, of where I live and what I see around me, etc, so here they are (click for the album):
In other news, I cooked chili con carne yesterday. From a packet, alas; although one day I will succumb to the temptation to just “take a fresh and ripe tomato”… and of course I sang while I was cooking 
Also bought a German cookbook today, because I didn’t take any of my Australian ones with me (weight considerations!!), and I’d rather not rely on stir-frys, spaghetti bolognese, and packet meals. And so that I have something to read other than my Lonely Planet, I invested in “Sakrileg” by Dan Brown (er, that was called “The Da Vinci Code” before it got translated.) I also ventured into the Ausländerbehörde and marvelled at the queues, I think I’ll try going there again early in the morning, with my book, and a lot more patience.
I have also begun another scarf, although I suspect I will finish it just in time for the weather to warm up and me not to need it any more. But oh well. Photo:
I’d better get back to actually knitting that.
April 18th, 2006 at 8:44 am
Haha! Trust the Deutsch to house academics in spacious architect-designed digs. Lucky sod. BTW, do you get to be a magister when this is all done?
April 18th, 2006 at 9:02 am
Architect-designed dig? to be honest, it feels a bit like a motel. But perhaps that’s just the hotel-standard furniture and the fact that I haven’t properly unpacked yet cos I know I’m moving out as soon as I find an apartment.
And no, “magister” is something different again. (I don’t completely understand the German system.) This is just a simple MSc.
May 9th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
[...] Further to the previous two posts: I have updated the old (out of focus) photos with new (in focus) photos. They also happen to have rather more vivid colour than the old ones did. [...]