Freitag, 29. September 2017

Home with a cold

Since I've got the cold, there's no new blog entry today - except for the one that I'm ill...

Donnerstag, 28. September 2017

Mittagessen

Am letzten Tag der Woche in der Kantine gibt es immer noch eine Speise erster Wahl!

Rindergeschnetzeltes nach Esterhazy Art mit Grünkern


Some much chocolate, but unfortunately not enough... cc: @ZotterAustria

Yesterday after work I went home and opened the fall news from our favorite chocolate maker: Zotter.


Unfortunately it was the wrong package - one since smaller than we paid for - so we couldn't taste it and I have to contact them today on what they could offer to make this right...

In the evening we watched BBC shows before we went to bed, but not before entertaining the cats of course.

Mittwoch, 27. September 2017

Mittagessen

Schnitzeltag wieder am Mittwoch - die Woche ist gerettet!

Cordon Bleu vom Schwein oder gebackenes Hühnerfilet mit Beilage nach Wahl


Star Trek is back!

Yesterday after work I went to my parents and got - among other things - a very tasty tiramisu.


Then I went back home and after some chores we did at home we went onto the couch the watch tv shows. We also started watching the new Star Trek: Discovery show and we are currently unsure if we like it. Especially the main character is no doing so well on the motivation side and acting rather irrational for a human raised by vulcans. But perhaps the story explains this at some point until then we are not sure of this is going to go on...

Dienstag, 26. September 2017

Mittagessen

Heute einmal was vom Griechen?

Gyros vom Schwein mit Butterreis


Film Review: Kingsman - The Golden Circle

Yesterday we went to the movies and watched Kingsman - The Golden Circle.


The movie starts right with some action as Agent Galahad/Eggsy's live is on the line when he is assaulted. He can barely escape with his life by going underground in the sewers of London.

But the action is still coming and after a strike against all british Kingsman Galahad and Merlin are the last ones standing and have to flee to their - until this point unknown - american colleagues, the Statesman.

Piece after piece the puzzle begins to form until the agents are ready to save the world...

Not to spoil too much of the story is quite hard with this movie. But the sequel is really living up to the expectations. You get the feeling that there are even more action and slo-mo shots in this one and the humor isn't left out as well. There are even funny and action scenes not already shown in the trailers.

All around this is a great and funny action movie, where you didn't feel the whole minutes passing.

Montag, 25. September 2017

Mittagessen

Die Woche fängt diesmal erfrischend gut an was das Kantinenessen betrifft.

Cevapcici mit Pommes Frites und Zwiebelsenf


Auch sonst scheint die Woche wirklich eine erfreuliche Abwechslung vom üblichen Essen zu bieten.


And now he's going back "home"

This sunday the only task for our japanese guest was packing his stuff (not as extreme as the boardgame we played the day before) and this time it wasn't that difficult - he didn't even have to leave stuff behind.

In the afternoon we brought him to the airport and as of right now he's still on his way back home to Japan.

In the evening we just went onto the couch and we watched BBC shows..

Sonntag, 24. September 2017

The last day of the stay for our lord

This saturday we all went to Mariahilf where we met a friend for lunch. We had indian food and it was quite good, but almost to hot for me (again).


At Planet Harry I didn't buy anything again - my birthday is still approaching - so we then went back home again. On our way there we had the last Tichy icecream of the season.


Back home again we then played - for the last time during his stay with us - some boardgames with our japanese lord. We started with Kofferpacken extrem, which was kind of the thing he was going to do soon anyway.


Next up we played Stich-Meister with only three players, which is quite a different experience to play, since you can plan somewhat ahead.

The conclusion then was the Omens of Ice expansion for Elder Sign, where we lost quite narrowly and now the earth is covered in ice - sorry about that.

Samstag, 23. September 2017

Boardgaming doesn't get old

This friday after work I stayed longer and played some boardgames with colleagues of mine. We gave those games a try: Isle of Skye, Straw and King of Tokyo. I think everyone liked the games and I guess we'll be doing something similar in the near future again.

Afterwards I went home and since it was quite late I didn't go out to Mariahilf anymore.

We then did a boardgaming session at home as well with two Anno Domini game sets VIP and Wissenschaft & Forschung where I managed to lose quite spectacularly.

In the evening we watched the finals of Celebrity MasterChef UK on BBC.

Freitag, 22. September 2017

Relaxing TV evening with a hint of cats

Yesterday after work I was out for a quick grocery shopping trip and then we spent a relaxing evening which concluded on the couch with BBC shows. In between our cats demanded their rightful play-time - quite insistently because they noticed we had time.

Donnerstag, 21. September 2017

Mittagessen

Auch der Donnerstag gibt essenstechnisch nicht viel her.

Topfenauflauf mit Weichselkompott


Going to space and beyond

Yesterday evening we had a short boardgaming session with a dear friend. We played Xia: Legends of a Drift System and there the players try to be successful merchants or pirates in space..


Although the rules are quite extensive, it played rather nicely and quick. We only played the short version and my trading strategy didn't pay off in the end. Perhaps if we played it again for a longer time it would be more successful.

Mittwoch, 20. September 2017

Mittagessen

Schnitzelmittwoch ohne Schnitzel?

Kebap


Rainy days

Yesterday after work I went to my parents for dinner and got a quite tasty Kaiserschmarrn.


After that I went home and there we entertained our cats quite a lot and afterwards it was couch time with some tv series on BBC.

Dienstag, 19. September 2017

Mittagessen

Es wäre Dienstag und es gibt Schnitzel?

Hühnerfilet gebacken mit Buttereis


Boardgaming in space

Yesterday after work and dinner I quickly baked a plum tray bake again. While the bake was in the oven we played a game of A Castle for All Seasons and noticed that the game isn't that good to keep - so one less game in our flat!!!

After that we went onto the couch for the second episode of The Orville and this time I didn't sleep through the episode, but I must agree with the opinion of other people that the show is neither funny nor exciting - there was much potential with it being a funny Galaxy Quest-like show, but I guess it won't happen.

Montag, 18. September 2017

Mittagessen

Wochenbeginn und die Essensauswahl in der Kantine ist bescheiden.

Cammembert gebacken dazu Preiselbeeren


Und dann geht es so weiter (ohne Schnitzelmittwoch!).


Boardgaming - the time-consuming varients

After some good night sleep we primarily played longer boardgames this sunday.

After breakfast we started with Mansions of Madness - Second Edition. At at country house we tried to solve the mysteries and stop a dangerous ritual, but ultimately we failed.

After lunch we then played The 7th Continent for the second time. This time we came better prepared and so we explored a lot of the land mass of the continent before we had to stop. Perhaps we'll continue exploring tonight...

For the conclusion of the day we presented our picture from our recent cruise to our japanese lord and used him as a beta tester for length of said presentation.

Sonntag, 17. September 2017

Boardgaming time!

This daturday we played a lot of boardgames again with our rather large group of 7 people (thanks to our japanese lord).

We started with a rathe strange game from a Kicktstarter - Bears vs Babies. IN this cardgame you try to build monsters from bodyparts and then fight off an army of crazy babies. It's as weird as it sounds...


Next we played two games of Magic Maze and we tried to steal our adventurer's gear from the shoping mall - not quite as successfully as we hoped.


After that we played the card game Dann ging es ans Kartenspiel The Great Dalmuti, where a revolution brought properity for the people and the win for me in the end!

Then I went to the kitchen to make some flatbreads for our dinner curry. In the meantime the other six played Stich-Meister and had some rather funny and weird rules combinations again.

To lighten up we then played three rounds of Codenames gespielt.

Another game we played was Der wahre Walter where we had another good laugh after the other.

Since some of the guests had to leave at that point we played Telestrations with a smaller group but it was quite funny again. Here are some of the highlights of the games.

Garlic




Throwing flowers at a monster






Spanish hobby-horse rider




Crying and tear throwing worm


Very, very sad snake


Chewing nails


Finger nail tooth


Alien on a finger


Robot











"Hiya"

Skydiver


Skydiver with assault rifle


Skydiver sniper


Life vest




Drowning person


Camp of tents


Boy scout camp


The Pied Piper in the Wild West


Impressionism


Washing laundry at night


Washing laundy under the night sky




Pancake with sound


Muscially pancake


Slumdog (lit. Streetdog in german)




Drunkard's dog

"Burp"