Thanks for all!

Women at Poker

At the end of this year we decided to get rid of all the old money and use it for poker!

Gimme da bass

A few days ago I made myself my own christmas present:
I always wanted a contra-bass but couldn't afford one and then my girlfriend found this baby here lying in the hallway of her house. I left a note and bought it for 150 Euros. Now it'll be brought back to life and then my collection is complete!

Cool as Ice

...on the stage on the christmas party:




and also pretty hot outside at the pond:

After Show with Morten

Sweet Aquavit dreams my friend!

Booyaka!

Efforts are great, expectations are high and we're in our last preparations for the Christmas party at the MPI. The band has formed:

Undercover in Vienna

I went to Vienna for few days to meet a top scientist of the university there. Because his research is top secret, I had to use my secret identity to check in:

Top event: Christmas market

Mixdown

We thought we were prepared for a situation like this but it hit us hard yesterday evening: Henning & I ran out of alcohol. Well thats not completely true because we still had some old leftovers of hard liquor. So we made the best of it and created a cocktail just made of hard liquor:

10 cl Pushkin Red Vodka
2 cl Vodka
2 cl Gin
4 cl Batida de Coco
2cl Apricot Brandy
2cl Grenadine

Suggested name: Schwachhausen Meltdown. Cheers!

Not so cheerfully was on the other hand the leftover Henning found the next morning in his glass - looks like some weird precipitated stuff - Oh oh...

Countdown

The preparations for the christmas party are running and evil Ivo will be in the first row!

Wicked Mr. K goes wild and gets Petrafied ;-)

Upgrade

Having Mr. Enning measuring the freezer of Ivo was not the weirdest thing on this nice poker evening to happen...

We also tested the new Whiskey dispenser for the first time:

All in all, the usual suspects got their high towers, but BIG WHITE TOWERS MEAN NOTHING ;)

Trash TV

I was trapped in the living room of our flat and forced to witness a whole bunch of trash tv (Bauer sucht Frau) and traditional local food (Grünkohl mit Pinkel).

Here is what it does to the people:

Sometimes you gotta be strong...

Headshot

The chosen ones got hand-made hats from our gifted little MarMic friend Marie. We think that a new trend is about to be kicked off...

Gonna party like...

... it's Helge's birthday! In his age he finally managed to grow some fur:

It's done!

Today was the last session and my tattoo is finally complete ;)

Auswärtssieg!

Friends of Cologne visited me in Bremen to celebrate Metti's and my own birthday AND to go to the soccer match Bremen vs. Köln on the next day. Instead of many party pictures I just show you:

My bathtub:



The birthday boys:



And the empty bathtub:



Here's one impression from the guestarea in the Werder Bremen Stadium where whe watched the game with the cologne fans:

Wild Rovers

Time for the Eastpack Antidote Tour in Hamburg and it started with a nice dinner with my friend, the one-eyed pirate Thomas:



First we saw the STREETDOGS, a band from Boston playing kind of celtic rock. Jenny met their guitar player afterwards ;)




Finally Flogging Molly got on stage and we freaked out...

Thumbs up

News from the front: Roomie Merle was stung by a wasp while spending a weekend in the UK - Here's her swollen thumb.

Besides that we had again a magnificent poker evening, this time featuring Morten "the evil" Iversen, Mr. H, Herr Enninng (= Henning), "Tiny" Tim and me

Meat Christmas

We almost starved to death but finally the huge ball of meat was ready and we enjoyed it very much - it even made Helge play the guitar!