I haven't been blogging as much as I should. Not much to report, really. I've been eating better & hitting the gym, so I'm slowly losing weight...
JP got me into that online game SpacePioneers, which I'm trying to figure out. You basically are in a galaxy with about 3000 other players, and you extract resources to build ships, more resource extractors, etc. What's fun is you can raid other players for their resources. Since the game is in German there are (obviously) mostly Germans playing. From 6 pm on, NY time, the German players are mostly sleeping, and you can wreak havoc upon their unsuspecting colonies!
Then you get their emails with little cries of dismay when you wake up the next morning! (JP - I should be able to build Schlachtschiffe by tomorrow morning - researching Hyperraumantrieb level 4 is going to take 9 1/2 hours! It costs something like 85,000 Metal, 125,000 Crystal, 65,000 Fuel!)
Work is fine, Siobhan is fine, not much else to report. Let's all keep blogging!
Oh, yeah, did you guys see the news that Germany's unemployment number is over 5,000,000, the worst since the 1930s (except 1946-1948 was not reported, according to the article I read).
Ouch. Hard to see an easy way out, especially with an aging working population (JP - you emailed me that article on demographics - scary stuff).
One article is here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/02/02/germany.jobless.reut/index.html

Keep up the blogging! (Myself included!)
C


- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 2/02/2005 03:33:00 PM