Jeff’s Blog

I’m currently in Hamburg, sitting at some internet cafe near my hotel, the Hotel Village. My hotel apparently used to be a bordello, but now it’s just some hip place that was once used in a photo shoot by Nena (of ‘99 Luftbaloon’ fame). I’m up on the fifth floor (which in America [...]

I went over to the Barnes and Noble at Crossroads Plaza by work today to look through their travel books. I picked up Fodor’s Denmark book and Lonely Planet’s Germany book. The Fodor’s was more up to date, but I like the more bohemian (read cheap as in no listings for 4 star [...]

This morning I missed a meeting with my boss’s boss. When will I learn to not schedule meetings on Monday when I always forget about upcoming meetings due to the weekend? Everything got smoothed over though and I’ve added the new appointment to my personal calendar. Plus, the stress and guilt of [...]

It’s 8:45am on a Saturday, which is very early for me to be up. I was very proud of myself for getting up this early to make it to Frontrunners. That is until I realized that last night in a rush I left the garage door remote inside my car. For most [...]

A recent turn of events has caused me to re-evaluate my vacation usage in the near term. It looks like I will be able to go to Germany soon after all. In fact, I just bought a plane ticket for an 8 day trip to Denmark and Germany (into Copenhagen, out through Berlin) [...]

I was poking around online this evening to see if I could find a local Stammtisch to attend. A Stammtisch is a regular (usually weekly) meeting of friends or collegues. In the US, people usually speak German at them as well. Universities tend to have one. I ended up finding this [...]

For my drive to Oregon and back last weekend, I bought an audiobook through iTunes. The book I bought was the abridged version of David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day. It’s a collection of entertaining essays. I’d heard about Sedaris a number of time from various people and seen him listed [...]

Last weekend I went down two Oregon to help my parents move into their new house outside of Cottage Grove. I got there late Friday night and woke up at 6:30am on Saturday to start the moving. First, the truck rental place didn’t have any trucks (despite my parents having a reservation). [...]

Ken, Evan, Ian and I ended up hitting Neighbors around midnight after watching TV over at Larry’s tonight. I hadn’t been to Neighbors in many months–probably not since April or so. It’s definitely a different scene than the Cuff (where I usually seem to go these days to dance)–more straight women, younger on [...]

After putting it off for most of the summer, I broke down and took my car into get the brakes taken care of. It’s not like they’d gone out or anything, but my car has been breaking increasingly roughly for a while now. When I went up to the San Juans months ago, [...]