While usually I only post the static image, generally known as “the picture”, today I’ll try something different. And this is why:
Today, as I entered the abode after a healthy afternoon snack and was about to open the windows to let the accumulated heat out, I had to realize that I couldn’t. Or rather, shouldn’t. For somehow in between me entering the building and opening the apartment door, a storm of mighty proportions had come up. Opening our windows would have ripped them straight from my hand and thrown them either on my head or onto the street a good 20 meters down (or both, actually). So the only option I saw was to shoot a little video to document the madness and then close the windows until the storm had passed.
The storm has still not passed, it has actually teamed up with some heavy rain. Meaning that the heat is still accumulating, turning our lovely little apartment into a terrible little furnace. But hey, I’ve still got the video of the raging storm when it was still just a tad angry. Enjoy!
…in red and tiny.
I don’t know whether it’s a trademark already, but I do find the way Meg White moves her head from one side to the other while playing the drums kind of cute.
We went to the laundromat yesterday, because sometimes you need a bigger washing machine than the ones they usually sell.
My original plan of having ice cream and sitting on the boardwalk in front of the laundromat while waiting for our laundry to finish was thwarted by a rather dusty storm that swept through the streets of our district yesterday noon.
We had slices of greasy pizza instead.
Sunday, Arena, Vienna.
Song of the evening: Panzer Attack.
Today I got a letter from our cable company. Inside, there was a laconic message that went something like this:
“We ask for your understanding that starting next month, the monthly fees for our services will be raised by 30 Euro-Cents.”
Now, usually I’m really quite an understanding person. I understand it when someone decides to leave Austria to start life as a scuba-diving instructor somewhere in the Maldives (mainly because the Maldives are said to be a really great place…why anyone would want to instruct others doing something like diving is actually beyond me).
I understand it when people don’t have cars in Vienna, because having a car in Vienna is expensive and to a certain extent really quite pointless.
But I don’t fucking understand why they suddenly need to charge more for our cable. And you know why? BECAUSE THEY DON’T ACTUALLY GIVE A SINGLE REASON WHY! How should I be understanding, when all they tell me is the fact, but not the circumstances that led to that very fact.
I’m sure customer relations must be a really difficult job, and explaining things to customers not even middle management understands must be really draining. But hell, why not simply dream up some reason that’s a bit more convincing than just NO REASON AT ALL.
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