Chrisus zlog

Slept long again, went to the shopping mall with Lizzy and the kids. Had dinner there what was not easy because of the kids. Then I met Birgit and Rebecca and Florian, had a coffee and talked about this and that. Then I enjoyed a fine hour walking through the Conrad-shop. I found a lot of "Wanna-haves" but bought only Micro-switches and 25 LED's. It was fine though because I could see, what would be available. Then a visit at my fathers grave, he had his birth-day today. A short visit at my grandma finished the "outside-day". I had a fine evening with Martin, watching funny things at the PC and finaly I had another Settlers of Catan game with Lizzy that I won. Mailing finished my last day in Graz.

Slept long, played with the kids, had a fine dinner. Visited my grandpa, my grandma and my father at the graveyard. Played Settlers of Catan with Lizzy and had a bad run. The finish was a fine talk about friendships and partnerships.

Got the train from Mötz at 10:29 to Graz. Overloaded, but I had a place booked. Lizzy was at the station to take me to her. A fine dinner and then a game "Settlers of Catan", she won. Afterwards a lot of talking and much laughter. Easter holidays started!

I had a fine day skiing at the Muttereralm. I tried the new slope down to Götzens and the new restaurant. Very fine outside: No "Hüttenmusik" but fine slow jazz music! The snow can be called "Sulz" now and the better slope for me was down to Götzens.

At the final downhill-drive I noticed the open door at the old middle-station at the Nockalm. The old funicular gondola railway was in operation from 1953 until 2000. So I went in and took some pictures. Have a look at one:

Last week:
I went to the station in Innsbruck and asked if it is true and possible to get -30 % on the price for the Vorteilscard when I show the IKEA-familycard. The answer was: "Yes, we can do it right now if you want." - "No thanks, I will search for an actual picture and come next week."
Yesterday:
15 minutes before the departure of the train to my sister: "Here I am, I want the Vorteilscard with -30% because of the IKEA-family card." Answer: "Sorry, but that's not possible. You _have_ to buy a temporary card at IKEA and then fill out the form to get the real Vorteilscard sent to you. So you get the minus 30 %". "What? You're joking!". So I had to buy a full-price-ticket to travel to my sister.
Today:
I bought the card at IKEA in Salzburg for 69 instead of 99 EUR. We drove home and I wanted to print out the order-form to get the real card. While doing that I came to the point "upload a picture" and said NO. I had the picture in my hand and wanted to add it to the form physicaly. The page said: To use the IKEA card advantage you _must_ upload a picture online. Waaaahhhh!
Godthanks I could print out a ticket back home using the temporary card number for a 50%-ticket.
Next joke:
I took a ticket "Riedersbach - Innsbruck" because I have a ticket "Innsbruck - Mötz". Payed 20.30 EUR. After doing and paying that I tested Scotty, the System "From home to home". I said "Riedersbach - Obsteig" and got an offer with bus, same train and another bus from Innsbruck to Obsteig. Cost: 19,50 EUR. What? Longer distance - fewer price? Normaly I had to pay additional 2,30 EUR using the bus to Obsteig instead of the train to Mötz.

Because of a comunication problem I got a devils haircut. "The distance device is plugged in" versus "The distance device is _not_ plugged in". It was noticed too late what was the truth. This is the song to the devils haircut.

Yesterday afternoon the husband of my friend died because of heavy brain damage.

The husband of my best friend of the choir came under an avalanche on saturday. They think, he will not survive. That takes me down at the moment. Last August they got their third child.

From Friday 'till Saturday 4 p.m. I was with the group "Mesnerhaus" and painted two pictures. It was fine for me to take the time and let my creativity out without any disturbing. Painting is a wonderful thing for seeing the world with different eyes.


For more paintings click here.

I had Sylvesters evening in a circle of friends from Obsteig round an open fire at the crossing of a road. Until 11 p.m. we were astonished about the silence. Then only rare rockets found their way to the sky. From 23:55 until 00:20 we had fine fireworks around us and then silence again. We listened to the radio and finally sang our own songs round the fire. It was a fine turnaround of a year and I wonder what it will bring to me. I am sure, it will not be easy, but I will handle it. For sure!

Yesterday we had another event of the actors group "Mesnerhaus". We engaged a model that actet nude as "Aktmodell" for us. We trained our skills to take a sketch within 15 minutes. The event lastes 3 hours and in the end I was exhausted because of concentrated sketching for 3 hours.

On saturday I was at a cabaret from Gerhard Sexl about school. There were a lot of things to lough about! Many recognizeabel scenes and teacher-types. But there also was acknowledgement to the teachers work. In fact Gerhard Sexl is an active teacher himself. It was a fine evening with friends.

On Saturday I installed David's new lamps above his new table. Concrete ceilings are not so fine for drilling a hole. But in the end he got a fine table-lighting that we tested with a caretaker-dinner.

Maybe you went outside, headed east and looked up to the zenit at midnight. Then I am sure you wondered about a new star that shouldn't be there: The red lines show you the star-sign Perseus, the blue circle are the Plejades and the green circle ist new:


The thing in the green circle is the comet "Holmes" that amazingly increased its lumination and can be seen with free eyes:


The last picture is a close up, the shimmery thing is the comet:

Woke up early, kids and breakfast. Yesterday I decided to take the train at 10:35 and booked via internet place and ticket. Lizzy brought me to the station, it poured basins of water. The train was filled like a tin can of sardines. Even my booked place was occupied (from a nice girl). 5 hours later a change to the regional train and then back home again. Big welcome from my cat, about 30 minutes caressing then feeding. Well, that was a too short trip to Graz, but very fine.