round up

Hmmm, I haven't posted anything here in quite a while, for which I apologise. I've been pretty busy for the last couple of weeks, and not had much chance to play. We were in Germany last week, and it was fantastic :-) The weather was really nice while we were there, staying mostly in the mid twenties, though there was a thunder storm one evening to clear the air. We were over for Sibel and Michi's wedding, which went apparently without a hitch, and now Sibel & Michi are married, and probably still in Bali on their honeymoon. The wedding was pretty cool, and in some ways like ours. Sibel is of Turkish descent, and Michi is German, so there was a lot of each culture there. All the usual crowd were at the wedding (with the exception of Kerstin who is in New York), and it was good to catch up. Anna looked stunning, and we got seriously drunk :-) I took a great picture of Flo being really stoned, which I have to show to him :-) I'll get some photos scanned and uploaded soon. Actually, I probably won't, its such a drag scanning photos. I have to check out getting a negative scanner sometime. Speaking of cameras, this is my birthday present :-)))
Did I mention that it was my birthday on Wednesday? Well, now I'm 31. This is my fourth decade. I've been wondering over the last few weeks if I'd have a problem with being 31. Thirty was kind of cool, but 31 seems to be a more established "old" age, which isn't cool at all. But fuck it, I don't feel any different, and I'm certainly not going to go around acting differently, so I guess it isn't a problem for me :-)
I've been watching Ireland in the World Cup again. My long-time dislike of soccer gets dampened around this time every four years, and I can be seen in crowds cheering at men in green shirts kicking a ball around a field somewhere. The match against Germany was brilliant - I was in Germany ;-) Anyway, we're probably not going to last longer than tomorrow's match, so I have to make the most of it. I can't remember what else is happening, it seems that I need more coffee.