http://nacken.com Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:04:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en … before we start our first road trip of the summer. Hopefully instead of nice Italian food we will indulge in French and mainly Spanish cuisine!! Paella, ole! First time Ritsu experienced the nice outdoor seating at Al Castello. And we had a new waiter, Italian, but married to a Japanese ... http://nacken.com/?p=2820 Finally I can write openly about this. And it is a long read if you bother to click for the full version. Short version: In January some online troll left racist comments on this and Ritsu’s blog. As the comments originated in Germany, I quickly involved the police and the local ... http://nacken.com/?p=2819 In case you missed that post from pretty much exactly 5 years ago … I made this fantastic chicken salad again. Having found mango and mint, but no macademia nuts (replaced them with cashew). It was very yummy … until it started pouring and we had to move inside. From the ... http://nacken.com/?p=2818 It had to come to this … bitten by the twitter bug! I have been struggling a long time to find any tangible use or reason why to tweet … I had played around with it a bit but then lost interest. Then recently we pondered at work how we ... http://nacken.com/?p=2813 On the way to the movie theater: nap time Then a pit stop at McD And then off to the movies. Great movie, even better in 3D .. but the projectionist screwed up, at around 30 mins we had some overlay of some Zach Affron movie, the 3D effect was gone .. ... http://nacken.com/?p=2817 We had started doing BBQ on 5/16 and since then I have used our little 5€ grill every weekend, sometimes twice. What was missing was the opportunity to sit outside. We had looked at many kinds of balcony furniture, but it was always too pricy (not knowing how often we would ... http://nacken.com/?p=2814 Like many things this year (Apartment, Job) things are just floating in our direction … this time a new car. Again we were not looking for anything new, but we got this great offer from a trusted source … and since our next 3 trips are all road trips, we ... http://nacken.com/?p=2816 If you know a bit about the blogosphere, then you know BoingBoing, a blog about all kinds of interesting things. And getting a story published there is a fun experience. Suddenly your counter goes beserk. We usually only get 200 - 300 hits a day (down from 600, in the Julius ... http://nacken.com/?p=2815 Actually, they don;t really have this here … seems to be a very American thing … but we have funny local holidays (San Giovanni today) which do not correspond with the UN holiday calendar. So, Julius’ school was closed and Ritsu and I had to work … and we brought ... http://nacken.com/?p=2811 Overlooking the not so far mountains, we are getting some really dramatic sunsets here. http://nacken.com/?p=2810