i met a hockey buddy of mine in the city. three months ago he fell with his bike, well he crashed it, right into a whole and got kicked ooff it. his back was broken in a way that the smallest move would have tied him to the wheelchair for the rest of his life,…
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what a weekend that was. i started feeling really sick on sunday but wne to work nevertheless not wanting to leave my colleagues by themselves (especially because i leave for manchester next friday and i know what a hard week it is for all of us) – bad idea, the fever i had surpressed with…
Read more“have fun, never give up”
today, by coincidence i came across randy pausch. he is a professor at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh. and he is suffering from incurable cancer. during his last lecture at cmu he closed with the title of this post. i promise. i believe.
Read morefriendly neighbours
i went to see my local hockey team’s first season game in slovenija. ljubljana just joined our (austrian) league but they already seem to be an enrichment (though beating us). the best about the trip was actually what happened after the game. i walked up to my car which i had parked – quite frankly…
Read moregood morning, bomber man
my regular schedule consists of me getting up, rubbing my eyes, walking up to my notebook and checking the morning news. today was – well – different. a 26-year-old threatened to blow himself up with a bomb here in klagenfurt. what caught my eye was the street name. it was the street next to my…
Read moretwo lost souls
We returned from Lienz yesterday, taking a break at the Weissensee, a beautiful lake in the midst of the mountains. We rented out one of the little boats there, steered it out on the lake, turned of the engine and just let it float. I closed my eyes for a while and with the boat…
Read morei failed, but then i gained
so it’s over and i didn’t make it. after a little more than a third i had a little accident while carrying the bike uphills through the woods. i barely made it out there, biked for a couple of more kms but then felt dizzy and my batteries were just plain empty. my legs felt…
Read morethe night before the day
ii know it’s crazy and i never wrote about it here, but i am taking place in the red bull dolomitenmann tomorrow – an extreme race in the mountains near lienz. it’s a team event, cnsisting of a mountain run, a paraglide chapter, a canoo-part and mountainbiking. i am doing the mountainbiking and right now…
Read moreGeilston Bay via Lindwood
It’s funny what can trigger your memory. Yesterday I drove past a bus, which in itself is not an unusual occurrence but this time I saw a destination on the front that I haven’t thought about for years. I must have travelled that route hundreds of times and as soon I saw it again, so…
Read morenessun dorma
This night Luciano Pavarotti died of cancer. He was my all-time favourite Tenor and even if I know there’s been a thousand other arias as beautiful as this one, Pavarotti changed Nessun Dorma forever. I listened to it almost all the way back from Brussels in my car and it never let me go. Dilegua,…
Read moremmm…coffee…
I didn’t discover coffee until about my mid-20s but since I did, I don’t know how I ever lived without it. It’s pointless to deny it: I’m hopeless addicted; to the caffeine rush, to the smell, to the taste and even more so to the good times I associate with drinking coffee. I was reminded…
Read morevulnerability
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Read morepulp mills and politics
Tasmanian politics has been dirty and muddy for a long time but right now it is particularly so. The proposed Gunns pulp mill in the Tamar Valley has been an issue in Tasmania for over a year now and since the preferred RPDC process was abandoned in March, the ‘facts’ surrounding the proposed project just…
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