Ahh, the birthday inverse. I remember when we figured that out. Hope it’s a good one!
I literally signed up to the Lego site just so I could vote for this. AMAZING. TAKE MY MONEY NOW.
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Month: September 2020
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Shared today on Twitter
I’m going to be live streaming the AWS DACH (Germany/Australia/Switzerland) Office Hours with @dtraub in just over an hour! 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 https://t.co/jc3MqvQc6o
RT @darkosubotica: Did You wish to run ARM instances on AWS, but just didn’t want to commit to those pesky M6 or C6 ones 🤔
<Prof. Farnswor…
RT @NWheeler_CMP: https://t.co/fIJ40YGfep
With apologies to the entire nation of Austria… I am going to be making that error a lot in the next few months. 😂 https://t.co/EeEeEq9qNw
@simonwaight @dtraub LOL. Every damn time!
@simonwaight @dtraub If only Twitter had an edit button. 🤦♀️
@vertis Twenty years of muscle memory to unlearn…
RT @dtraub: We’re live: The AWS DACH Office Hours. Join us, and ask any question you might have all around AWS. My guest today is Kris Howa…
@MelissaKaulfuss @vertis SAME!
@MelissaKaulfuss @vertis I’m two weeks in, but my first time on a stream!
RT @danilop: You can share your CloudWatch dashboards with people who do not have direct access to your AWS account. This enables you to di…
@IanMmmm I’m half tempted to set up a keyboard macro… 😂
RT @laurahelmuth: For the first time in the 175-year history of Scientific American, we are endorsing a political candidate. Please vote fo…
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Who wants to see me try to speak German? 😃 I’m excited to join my colleague Dennis for the first time on the AWS DACH Office Hours stream in just over 20 minutes… 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭
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Shared today on Twitter
@the_nathanjones I haven’t had my hair cut or dyed since the beginning of the year, and the hair dryer is on the boat. Pigtails were born of desperation. 😂
@MelissaKaulfuss @GWOTW RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS. 😂
@friendlyunit 😳
@the_nathanjones Tempted to “pull a Nath” and shave it all off! 😂
@the_nathanjones WhileI would love to rock the Furiosa look, sadly I have a giant round basketball head. I’d be Charlie Brown. 🏀
@the_nathanjones I dyed it pink many years ago for a Harry Potter event. Loved it, except for turning all my pillowcases pink. 😂 https://t.co/lAyD0kPEDx
@BronwenZ @lynnlangit @hankadusikova @Felienne @Doctor_Astro @lindaliukas @jessitron @julielerman @jules_kremer @VdaGeraldine @BekahHW @MariaPloessl @datachick @allPowerde @kytrinyx @SRobTweets @aprilwensel @jennapederson That heart-stopping moment when you wake up to a flurry of twitter notifications and wonder if it was something good or bad… in this case very good! Thank you @lynnlangit ❤️
RT @johndalton: Fans of the soap opera that is the Australian Computer Society’s continued fumbling irrelevance to actual IT professionals…
@moviemazz Lili Taylor was the MVP of that movie for me…
RT @jbesw: How to upload directly to Amazon S3 from a web or mobile application. This is one of the most popular questions I get asked – ch…
RT @dtraub: Morgen um 12:00 Uhr geht’s wieder los: Die AWS-Sprechstunde live im Stream, in der ihr all eure Fragen rund um AWS stellen könn…
RT @ceeoreo_: Aaaand it’s up!! My first installation of Learn AWS With Me is live 🥳🥳
If you want to avoid getting unexpected AWS bills, th…
RT @mrwiblog: This. I’ve met many devs who dislike PHP essentially because it’s easy. They *want* coding to be hard, to keep people out of…
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Shared today on Twitter
@simonwaight Actually the plan we’re on now is half the download speed we had in Australia, but we’re looking to upgrade…
@JessicaCGlenn Came with it. We are paying far more than we would for a normal apartment, but we figured it was worth it.
@NickyWill100 Haha, thank you!! ❤️
@zbendr The red LEDs you mean? They actually aren’t red, I discovered. They’re white but the fixture has red perspex along the sides.
@zbendr Interesting. I’ll have to get a cake to try it out! 😂
@verbaliza AMAZING. Nailed it.
RT @stroebel_econ: I have spent half of 2020 in 🗽🇺🇸, and half in 🇩🇪.
I have never appreciated the values and ideals of a “Soziale Marktwir…
RT @riffwithbiff: Sure, sex is good, but have you ever taken a catch in the crowd while wearing a pair of aviators and sucking back a dart?…
Guten Tag! Today we are at a palace. ❤️ https://t.co/NLHeXDeRwE https://t.co/uAa33WyJ1E
@damana Masks in shops, taxis, public transport, or wherever you can’t distance. Outdoors is generally fine without.
We walked all over the Schloß Nymphenburg park today. I do love a formal garden… https://t.co/BozYrkmSVB
…but there is also a lot of rambly wilderness “in the English style,” and we saw lots of ducks, geese, carp, and even a deer! https://t.co/9UBKtN5m8G
Stumbled across Pan chilling out in the forest… https://t.co/kpZTKXa2IK
Bacchus.🍷🍇😏 https://t.co/KvQAgI9Bk9 https://t.co/hNJQPiPxfV
For anyone who had a bet going, the first one to set off the smoke alarm while cooking was me, in under a week. 😬🔥💨
RT @rumireports: Look it’s working 👇
Japanese TV introducing the story behind each person on @NaomiOsaka’s masks throughout the tournament…
@mattstratton @shelbyspees I saw him give a keynote a few years back that purported to cover the history of programming. It began with Alan Turing. Literally no women mentioned at all. I saw one of the other speakers – a prominent woman CTO – facepalming. I think she talked to him after…
@mattstratton @shelbyspees …as the next time he gave the talk, suddenly there were slides of Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper. I was grateful that someone with more industry clout than me spoke up.
Since I was told recently that one does *not* eat Rotkohl mit Bratwurst, I did some research and tonight made my first attempt at Rouladen, from scratch. YUM! ☺️ https://t.co/Eu0t740YEW https://t.co/jME3asZFAc
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Guten Tag! Today we are at a palace. ❤️
Communing with art and nature at Schloß Nymphenburg today!
Bacchus.🍷🍇😏
Since I was told recently that one does *not* eat Rotkohl mit Bratwurst, I did some research and tonight made my first attempt at Rouladen, from scratch. YUM! ☺️
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JJ! I hope Bobbino Cubano does something nice for you. (And your actual family, of course.) 😂
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Since I was told recently that one does *not* eat Rotkohl mit Bratwurst, I did some research and tonight made my first attempt at Rouladen, from scratch. YUM! ☺️
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Settling in
This past Tuesday we packed up all our stuff from the AirBnB in Maxvorstadt and piled into a taxi van to Theriesenhöhe. Later that night, finally emptying our suitcases, I was suddenly hit by a wave of sadness. It didn’t feel like vacation anymore.
Thankfully a good night’s sleep helped, and we have been slowly settling in over the past few days. We really like the neighbourhood. Theriesenhöhe is to the west of the Altstadt, about 1.6mi (2.7km) from the city center. We are walking distance to two different built-up areas with shops and cafes (Schwanthalerhöhe and Ludwigvorstadt), but our particular bit is quite residential. There’s decent public transport (buses and U-Bahn stations), and as we learned last week, there are also several lovely parks close by too.
Our building is part of a fairly new complex, and we have a large apartment over two floors. (It’s bigger than our house was in Australia!) We were won over by the space – with a big kitchen and two guest rooms that we can use as offices – as well as the outdoor area. It’s also furnished, which saved us the trouble of having to go out and get furniture.
Note: the photos that follow are a mix of my own and ones from the real estate website, because the ones there were really good!
That’s the view as you come in. Instead of central heating, it’s got heated floors throughout. No air conditioning though – it seems that’s really uncommon in Germany. There’s a bathroom to the left and a guest room on the right, destined to be the Snook’s office once our stuff arrives on the boat. (We’re figuring out how to disassemble the bed so that we can easily put it back together when guests visit.)
A lot of the places we looked at had tiny kitchens. I guess maybe people don’t cook as much as we do? This one has a full-sized fridge/freezer. Only a ceramic hob though… (We’re already missing our induction.)
The styling isn’t super to my taste – there is a lot of wood happening here, and what’s with the red LED light fixture? – but it’s growing on me. We’ve been eating breakfast at the bar, which is fun. Today we had a surprise delivery of a bouquet of flowers from my friend Kelly (who is looking after Petey back in Sydney), and aren’t they so pretty?? ❤️💐
The doors off the living room open up onto a small patio with some outdoor furniture and plants. There’s also a sunken lawn with some benches. Beyond that is a lane with a steady stream of pedestrians, runners, and cyclists going between the various parks. We were thinking it would be nice to get some bamboo to screen off the patio and create some privacy, but it would also ruin our lovely view. 🤔
Today we decided we needed to rearrange the living room slightly to maximise TV-watching comfort. That said, we’re a little worried that our big TV (which is on the boat from Sydney) is going to be a tight fit in that stand when it arrives!
When we were deciding which apartment to get, I sent the real estate link to my friend Hannah who replied: “I love how all these places have winding staircases. It’s like the fanciest thing I ever imagined having in a house AND YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE IT!!” 😂 The rest of the rooms are upstairs…
So here’s a funny thing we learned about German beds – they’re usually two mattresses pushed together, with two separate duvets! Together they’re actually slightly bigger than our Queen bed back in Australia. I’ve just ordered a mattress topper to add some extra softness and to cover the join in the middle…
There’s another really big guest room that will also double as my office and craft room. (The sofa folds down into a bed.)
We’ve also got a big master bathroom with a large tub and a shower, and a small laundry room.
Oh! And I forgot the best part of all… NO TOILET SHELVES! 😂
It’ll be really nice once the rest of our stuff gets here and we can start to personalise it a little more. Hopefully next year people will be able to travel again, and some of you can come experience it in person. ❤️
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Shared today on Twitter
Saturday morning in Theresienhöhe… https://t.co/BxvyehqgFl https://t.co/fevycCafX2
@georgiecel Yes! Took a lovely and expensive pair of Florsheim oxfords to the cobbler in the Strand Arcade to be resoled. Good as new. Can definitely recommend them!
@alex_casalboni 😭 It’s so beautifulllllll
I had to take my Macbook to the Apple Store, and… 😍 Munich is so ridiculously pretty. But wow, so many people in the Marienplatz today. Makes me a bit nervous! https://t.co/sJIf62Adif https://t.co/8ahSY8bH3B
RT @dabit3: When someone on Twitter responds to your technical comment or question with a suggestion to change your entire tech stack from…
Me: “Oh fun! I can hear a loudspeaker from the Wiesen… I wonder if there’s a concert on our something?”
Ugh. No. It’s a frickin’ protest. 10,000 Covidiots. 🤦♀️
https://t.co/WQcBMCoFp1
Me: “I ordered a Radler!”
Him: “You know that a shandy*, right?”
Me: “Hm. https://t.co/tVdzfxtwIX
RT @SchittsCreek: a thread of the ~incredible~ Schitt’s Creek lego project @DrLucieFilteau and her husband put together this summer: https:…
Dinner tonight: Thai green curry, courtesy of the Snook! (Lovely flowers courtesy of @cactusknitkelly. 💐❤️) https://t.co/MIvKomSsDb https://t.co/rgxpZjE1Jg
Blog post: Settling in… https://t.co/52zbUCM2fL with photos of our lovely new apartment! https://t.co/HSbacwsk9g
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Saturday morning in Theresienhöhe…
I had to take my Macbook to the Apple Store, and… 😍 Munich is so ridiculously pretty. But wow, so many people in the Marienplatz today. Makes me a bit nervous!
Me: “I ordered a Radler!”
Him: “You know that a shandy*, right?”
Me: “Hm. Don’t care; I like it!”* 50% beer, 50% sparkling lemonade
Dinner tonight: Thai green curry, courtesy of the Snook! (Lovely flowers courtesy of Kelly Vincent. 💐❤️)
Blog post: Settling in… Click through if you want to see photos of our Munich apartment!