Quarter Life Crisis
The world according to Sven-S. Porst
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Bremen¶
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My weekend in Bremen is over. It saw me go on a shopping spree with my parents that left me with new shoes and a new jumper-jacket thingy. All quite nice – I'm not 100% convinced about the colour of the shoes yet. But it's not terrible, so simply wearing them was easier than arguing with my mom...
I also got myself the Baby I'm bored record by Evan Dando as vinyl that was out of stock in Göttingen. The nice thing is that records seem to be €2-3 cheaper in Bremen than they are in Göttingen. I should've bought 20 perhaps, and the train journey would've been free...
For my way back I have lots of extra luggage to cope with – the new clothes, the tea and coffee I got, the frozen Boerewors my mom brought from South Africa – and that I had to take with me before my parents' South African friends come over and eat it –, my mom's digital camera that I borrowed – expect a few extra images in the near future, my dad's old proper camera that needs a little fixing and that I hope to be able to use – along with our halls' photo-development equipment. I almost broke that camera already as my rucksack's zipper burst and the camera fell out.
I even got a seat on both the journeys to Bremen on Friday and back to Göttingen now – despite it being Friday and Sunday afternoon respectively and me not booking – the less you try the better your chances are, just as with parking spaces.
Being in Bremen, I looked after my dad's Powerbook a little. It's amazing how much non-installed software updates had accumulated since christmas and how long they take to download using an ISDN line. I also set him up to have his Palm synchronise with OSX's address book rather than with Palm desktop, which seemed to work quite smoothly once I actually read the small print saying that wanting to use a Palm with iSync means you have to do an additional download.
The wireless networking we did was so-so. Speedwise I frequently find it unreliable, having periods of high throughput followed by periods of extremely slow throughput despite the signal strenght being high. Also, Apple's internet connection sharing occasionally seems to be confused and not work properly. Since at some stage my copy of OS 9 had gone AWOL, I used the opportunity to simply copy my dad's over for use in Classic, thus saving myself the annoyance of having to install it. That's symbolic what makes the classic MacOS so great: If you want to copy it to a different drive in a working condition, all you have to do is move its folder there.
