Ok you all asked for it!
Here he is......

No he is not supporting the Dutch soccer team..... That is his work uniform.

Match the feet to the name game!

Obvious who is freezing
Originally uploaded by kayotic

It is obvious whose feet are mine! At low 80's and not a cloud in the sky I was still dressed from head to toe.... Yes including jacket and scarf! It was a wonderful week in Orlando with a long time friend and we were lucky with the weather as Orlando seems to be sharing the rainy season with Bali.

Strange how a few days of sunshine and motivation kicks in. Just barely overcoming jet lag now since returning to Germany and already I feel the effects of sun deprivation.

It's been a while....

Recently I had a conversation with a friend on blogs and bloggers. She mentioned the fact that she subscribes to these promising blogs that then just end..... For months, even years no entries in these ever so promising blogs.

Woops.... I felt my pulse race, my face turn a slightly darker shade of red and my throat constrict. Oh the shame! I hope she never saw my blog let alone subscribe to it!

So now I sit here looking at pictures of the past week and realize I could pick up where I left off. Better than starting a new blog - right?

Last week Tuesday another friend and I headed off to Orlando, Florida for a doll show. I was not in the mood for another long plane ride seeing that I had just got back from Bali, Indonesia two weeks before. We flew via Amsterdam from Frankfurt with my favorite airline KLM, leaving Frankfurt at around 10 AM and arriving in Orlando at 11 PM. Don't forget to calculate the time difference!

I am so glad I took the week off in Orlando......

PS No I actually did go there to work, but it is more like a mini vacation with some errands to be taken care of.

Weekend experience.... Muppets in my Mac???

This weekend was peaceful and lonely..... Besides watching TV, DVD's and working a little, I did not experience very much.

But sometime Sanday - late evening - I was hijacked - well my computer was really the one to suffer.

Via email a masked bandit entered my email account and if I had not been quick he or she may have achieved whatever goal they had in mind.

Thank Apple Inc. for their wonderful trash can and immediate emptying - no questions asked - I was able to transfer this masked hijacker into internet oblivion!



PS: The identity of this masked bandit is obvious by that silly grin!!! Sort of reminds me of the muppets???

When operations come to a grinding halt.....

Ever hear of Murphy's Law? Well I experience everyday! But not only one thing goes wrong - lots of things go wrong!

Our workshop manager does not come to work, no one even knows where she is! She won't hand out the car papers so that we can sell that thing.

Without the manager we can't get goods shipped because she is the only one who can write and sign the invoice needed to ship the goods.

So I end up writing the invoice! Here in Germany I write an invoice for goods that need to be shipped from Jakarta to Germany. And then.... no one wants to sign the invoice. What is it with them??? Do they think they are signing off their life???

Geez...... and then: they (office and production workers) all just go home! The clock hits 5PM and they all go. No good bye or is there anything else. Gone! Do they ever stop to think that if I don't get my goods I have nothing to sell. If I have nothing to sell then I can't pay them???

No wonder some countries remain - Third World! In order for a country to develop the population needs to develop! If they always depend on others to take care of things how will they ever be independent!

Ok ... I need a coffee!

Slave of the machine.......

Sometime after 1:45 AM Central European time something went really wrong with my mail program. This morning after a slight computer freeze all my outgoing and ingoing mail had disappeared into thin(www)air! Gone!

My mail accounts - gone!

Thankfully I have been bitten by the crashing hard drive more than once in my life. So I have a back up - more than one!

Time Machine is great, but it took me the whole morning to locate the mail boxes that I had lost. I found them - saved and stored at 1:45 AM....

Now I realize that I am so dependent on this piece of machinery encased in white plastic called a computer that is scares me! And this got me thinking......!!! You buy a washing machine and if does not work.... You call the store you bought it at and raise hell! The same goes for a toaster, iron, car, phone (although I wonder about that one now too), stapler, copier..... anything!

The amount of shit we put up with when it comes to computers is amazing! And this is not the first time that I spent hours looking for solutions to a problem. A problem that a simple computer user cannot understand. Do you understand what this piece of machinery actually does? Do you know what processes (admittedly very complex and very fast) actually go in in there?

I sit here staring at the beautiful (but slightly dirty) keyboard thinking....... What does this thing do? Where is he storing all this information I feed him? What happens when information gets lost? Whole files disappear? Where did they go?

At least when you put something on a physical piece of paper and throw it out by mistake you know where to look! In the paper garbage! And if you are stuck in a streak of bad luck - you need to climb into the paper garbage head first to dig for that missing piece of paper. Thankfully we do separate our garbage here.

Can you imagine diving head first into your computer to look for something??

A little early.......

Better too early..... Good thing I thought of taking and posting these shots now!! And maybe I will just add more to decorate my web shop with Seasonal Photos....!

Most times though Christmas just whooshes past me! And I only realize on New Year's Eve that not only is there family to include in the well wishing but friends and customers too!!

This is but a start....