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Sandman, send me some dreams

An evening with two other kids at home: Cooking for the whole pack and then watching the sandman on tv together.

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Murphy’s law

I was invited to give a talk at Donau-Uni Krems and was wondering whether to take the train or drive myself by car. I chose the train.

Big mistake: electrical problems between St. Andrä-Wördern and Tulln, thus we’re delayed for a long time.

I should have stuck to the original plan of taking the car and scoring a crate or two of wine.

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Movie censorship requests

I’ve had the following two links open for the last few weeks. Instead of bookmarking them, I’ll just list them here:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Change Requests

The South Park Movie: Answer to MPAA’s Rating note

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Nikolaus 2010

This year, we organized a Nikolaus Fest again. This time we had:

11 kids (only the twins (Isabel and Leo) could not come)
11 parents
my sister

and a very impressive Bishop.

Many thanks to our neighbor who played the role perfectly and dealt with all the idiosyncrasies of the kids.

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Autumn in the Augarten

Today was a perfect autumn day in Vienna and we met a good number of other families in the park:

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No, that’s not Anakin Skywalker preparing for a pod-race.

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A Sunday Trip

After taking the kids to the election place we drove to Sparbach Park for a nice Sunday’s excursion:

Elena in the Sand Pit

The promised Ice

Am Spielplatz

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Tired kids

This saturday we finally ordered the new bed for the kids (roughly like the third one from here, had lunch at Kika (not advisable: why the f* is the non-smoking area of the restaurant not next to the playground?)) and when driving home the kids fell asleep in the car:

Elena:

Elena

Clemens:

Clemens

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Ostern in Rosegg

Karfreitag früh:

Samstag:

Sonntag:

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I can’t compete with Calvin

When we came back from a shopping trip tonight, the higher temperatures made the snow suitable for building. We made something conservative: