Chrisus zlog

finished my xmas-shopping within 3 hours. Great: no stress, no action, no hunting, just simple shopping.

On Dez. 20th I started my xmas shopping with having a look in the shops. It lasted about 1 hour. On friday I will finish it. So I have missed all shopping saturdays and Dez 8th. What a pitty...

Yesterday on 5.12. I was Nikolaus in Stubaital. 10 families, a lot of glancing children eyes, kids breathless watching me, and a fine christmas feeling for them. It must be very fine to be a young child waiting for christmas. The first contact is Nikolaus bringing the christmas feeling and little gifts. Unfortunately some of them get a lot of gifts and not only a little present from Nikolaus. But all in all I think the kids liked it. They sang a song, the spoke a verse and they painted little pictures.

Until now, On her majesties secret service with George Lazenby from 1969 was my favourite Bond movie. But now I have to make a revision. The new Bond in Casino Royale is much more better. It's a Bond as Ian Fleming wrote it down: Vicious, strong, sexy but also contemplative. In Flemings novels he had no high tech gadgets. In this film the only gadget is invisible under his skin, hightech and with only little use. It saves his live via cellular. Stunning car chases with the new Aston Martin DBS, coming 2007, spectacular free running chases. Finaly a love story with an actress that was not twodimensional. And the music was like the film: fine, up to date and first of all: cool.

Reached Graz at 23:25 on Friday evening. Martö and Rettich waited for me at the station. We went for one beer to Martös pup. After a short night we visited Conrad, the elektronic shop and then I met Birgit, Oliver, Rebecca and Florian. We had a nice saturday afternoon. Finished saturday with a talking evening with martin an lizzy, added by a 40 minute talk to Pezi in Carinthia who had a birthday party today between the toilett and the couch. Well, it was very fine!

Drove to the ÖAMTC and left my car there for one hour. After that hour I got a new "Pickerl". Well, thats fine for 212000 km.

I played Euro-Millionen for the first time because of the 180.000.000 EUR possibility, knowing the chances of winning as 1 to 76.000.000. And know what? I cracked the jackpot. Say, a little tiny crack. I won 9,40 EUR. It was topped by a lotto 4 on sunday with 58,70 EUR. Hey, the chance winning in both games the same time is nearly impossible. The beginning of richness!

Today I did my job as Gregoas Hausmasta. It was exchanging the seal of gregors bathtubs fittings. His words were: "So easy? thats all?". I will think about opening a caretakers service.

At least normal timezone is back again: middle european timezone. Now I can sleep as long as I want and do not have to wake up 1 hour earlier.

On saturday I was on the loveliest wedding I ever was, Gudrun's and Philipp's. Played guitar in the Wiltener Basilika and then had a very nice party at the Grünwalderhof. All acts at the party showed the deep love between them and that all their friends know this, so all acts had only one goal: to show that they were made for each other. I wish them decades of fine time together.

Today I got my new glasses. Even the woman at Miller-Optik was proud of the glasses and she said that they fit best on me. Have your own look as soon as possible.

Today was the first lesson in italian. It was a solo-lesson, because I was the only one. But there will be 6 in future. Interesting: I told Pino that I can order a pizza or gelati but not more, but he started teaching me only in italian. Thanks I have pre-knowledge. come ti chiami? non sono italiano! Studio italiano ma no parlo. Soltanto un poco.
Io: come ti chiami? lui: sono Pino. Io: Di dove sei? Lui: Sono di Satriano, regione Basilicata.
He told me that he normaly uses 3 lessons to finish chapter 1. Today finally we startet with chapter 2 at the end of the lesson. Ok, I am happily looking forward to next years visit in Italy.

Today I finished my first GELI-model after 30 years. A McDonnel F-4E Phantom II. It lasted some months, because I built it in the rare spare minutes I have. GELI-models are made out of paper in the scale 1:33 1/3.

On thursday I had a fine hike to the Amberger house, starting from Gries / Ötztal. It was 2 hours hiking in and 2 hours hiking back. Have a look here.

In the last days, when my nephew Meiki

was here, we played the card game "settlers of catan". We played all 6 extensions in 10 games. The score is 6:4 for him. He plays quite good.