Near to our hometown Oldenburg right beside the lake Bad Zwischenahner is the Park der Gärten, a great park which has been founded at a horticultural show. It's a very wonderful location we're visiting twice or more each year. Today we've been there again. They currently have a show integrating rooms and furnitures into the gardens.

It has been fun again, but this time with very good weather and the holiday too many people had the same idea like we had.

So we're looking forward to our next visits this year. During the summer vacation of our kids and another time with our neighbours when there's the illumination show again.

Today I've been the first day at work after a one week break due to a cold. Never had this during my now more than 25 years of work. Once again a sign for getting older. *smile*

But the day started with good news: my German book about system programming with Google Go will be released on January, 24th. I really can't await to hold it in my hands. You can find more informations at http://www.dpunkt.de/buecher/3449/systemprogrammierung-in-google-go.html or http://amzn.to/erI6dO. A preview should be available soon. I hope you'll be satisfied when you're reading it.

Sometimes life shows its sweet sides. Yestersay we had a congested canalization. The plumbers came immediately and helped until the evening. So we gave them some gratuities for their helpful effort.

As an impact I forgot my purse when I've been shopping this morning. But a lady helped me immediately, without wanting me to show my ID card or something like that. Great, so much confidence.

So I immediately fetched my money from home, bought a flower bouquet, and drove to the lady. She really has been glad about my flowers and that her confidence has been right. Additionally her man is a well-known collector of oldtimers. He guided my through his great collection of Maybachs, Rolls-Royces, Mercedeces, and Saab. What a wonderful event at the end of the year.

Thanks a lot to both.

Merry Christmas to all my friends and followers around the netspace. I hope you'll have a peaceful time with your family and the people you love. We'll today celebrate with my sister and her family. The kids will have casseroles and I'll make duck breasts for us adults. It's a wonderful tradition to be together on christmas eve.

Today we had nice snowfall here in Oldenburg. Radio and TV promised a little chaos, but it hasn't been that bad. Many driver are now more careful than at the beginning of the season (oh, we don't have winter yet *smile*). For me it's a nice time, even if I had to dig up my car.

Just saw a car burning in front of me, on the other side of the street. Thankfully that never happened to me. It's a real shit.

It's allways the same. There's only little snow falling and the traffic ends up in a chaos.

Last birthday I got a gift coupon for a professional massage here at Olantis Huntebad in Oldenburg. Today I've been there for a 60 minutes Ayurveda massage by Ms Budde. It has been great, absolutely relaxing, and a totally new experience. So the next time I don't need a coupon. I think I'll go there every three month in future.