#zahltag

[followmetodeath]

Damals wollte ich nicht schlafen, ich war einfach voller Tatendrang Heute lieg ich wach im Bett und hoff das ich bald schlafen kann

Gio - Damals und Heute

[sanity-energy]

Keiner kann die Wut in mir nehm'

Kalim

[followmetodeath]

Damals ging mir meine Mutter auf den Sack Heute bin ich froh wenn sie mal eine Stunde für mich hat

Gio - Damals und Heute

[followmetodeath]

Der erste Joint, ich hatte Lust es zu probieren Später fehlte dann die Kohle um die Sucht zu finanzieren

Gio - Reingeboren

[followmetodeath]

Doch ich habe keinen Bock, für irgendwen zu ackern, denn der Sinn in meinem Leben, ist zu leben, du Roboter!

Gio - Ich mach was ich will

[greenbagjosh]

27 June 1997 - Payday!  Radio Raheem reference and train ticket to and from Milan via Zurich

Friday 27 June 1997

Hi everyone, Well the day I had been waiting for had finally come.  It was the end of June 1997, and it was payday at that.

I was very excited as I had my eye on a portable cassette CD-playing radio for at least a week, on sale at Saturn Hansa for just 149 D-Mark, a 50 D-Mark discount for that week only.  It was a no-name cassette recorder/duplicator with AM, FM and Longwave bands.  I had to work that day, so I had to concentrate on my work until about 4:30 PM.  At the end of the workday, I went to Neuperlach Zentrum to see my monthly Kontoauszug, or my bank statement to verify that a money transfer took place.  A deposit of 1,500 D-Mark was deposited.  I had to be sure that I had 400 D-Mark free for rent, as well as about 80 D-Mark to pay for the next month's Ausbildungstarif II bus/train fare, so I had to be very careful what I spent.  

Saturday I had more time to go to the Saturn Hansa and pick out the portable radio.  The radio came in a box about two feet / 60 cm wide, 6 inches / 15 cm high and maybe 9 inches / 23 cm deep.  It weighed maybe 4 pounds / 1.8 kilos.  When I took it home, it did not have size "D" batteries (you might know the scene from "Do the right thing" when Radio Raheem asked for 20 of the "D" sized batteries, my radio only took six), but it had a "type C" plug which was ready to plug into a type C/type F Schuko round-pin outlet, similar to my table lamp that I bought a week prior.  I plugged it in, and it received the local FM stations, AM stations and even longwave as well.  The CD player worked fine and the tapes could be dubbed at twice the normal speed, just as advertised.  At some stage I had recorded Double's "Devil's Ball" on a longwave radio station.  You may remember Double from 1985/1986 with their "Captain of her heart" song.  

I did not do much that weekend, except stay most of the time at home and record music.  Sometimes I listened to Radio Gong, sometimes the Munich frequency for the French-based NRJ network, sometimes Bayern 3, and even some Dutch, Danish, Czech, Croatian broadcasts.  Transferring from CD to tape worked fine but there was a bit of fade-in for the first two seconds or so.  And the ticking sound of skipping songs was also audible.  I had a cheap copy of Sabrina "Boys" and Deuce "Deuce on the loose!", both of which I bought at the Neuperlach Zentrum location of Hugendubel, which has since withdrawn the music CD section.

Either Monday or Tuesday, the 30th June or 1st July, I wanted to see about taking the train to Zurich and Milan and come back through Trentino Alto Adige and Tyrol.  I had my Eurail Pass, and the DB long distance agents told me that I would have to buy a separate ticket for the section between Lindau Hbf to St. Margrethen SG, and for Brenner to Kufstein.  This was because my Eurail Pass was not good for Austria, as I had not requested Austria/Hungary to be valid.  

My next story will be an at-the-last-second journey from Munich to Zurich, Milan and back by Verona, Brenner and Innsbruck.  Will I remember where the actual youth hostel in ZH-Wollishofen is?  Hope you will join me then.

[tilos-tagebuch]

Microsoft erhöht die Preise seines 365-Pakets

Wer als Firma Microsoft 365 einsetzt, muss hierfür bald mehr bezahlen. Die Begründung: Die vielen neuen Funktionen seit dem Start des Pakets.

Alles in die Cloud!!! Microsoft365 hat genug Opfer eingesammelt - Jetzt ist Zahltag!

[geldhoch2]

When most investors think about growth in the stock market, real estate investment trusts (REITs) don't immediately come to mind. After all, land and buildings have been around for nearly forever. And how can sleepy bits of real estate compete with all of the other facets of the stock market from