A Man. And His Blog. With Some Changes Now

On October 6th, this blog will celebrate its first anniversary. I never was that long with a blog host, so I thought I should change some things for the future. The first thing is so obvious, yo have to be blind to not see it: I changed the theme. It goes from a more darker tone to a more brighter tone, so it is over with the nightly mood of this blog.
The other changes are pretty simple: Trying to post more about my life and more TV reviews (the current fall season in US television is the best example for that), I will start again with short movie reviews. I will insert less pictures in the posts, because I saw they kind of steal some space, especially with ten posts in a row, who have more than 20 pictures in them – doesn’t look really good.
I will try to put some more categories in the sidebar (and maybe some pages as well) to get a better overview in here. I think the category “Archive” is already full – I put all the German entries and some other stuff in there I won’t continue as a blog series (all the TV shows I reviewed any single episode with more than 1000 words per post and all the German movie reviews). I planned to think of more blog series, but nothing comes into my mind.
By the way: From now on I will try to write all posts in English language (the last German post was the movie review for Transformers 2 way back in May); topics with German interests (when I find something to write about) will be in German and the other languages I don’t speak or write.

For the future I have to say, the focus of the blog lies in its TV series review I do without pause (I reviewed 17 single episodes from the current TV season in this month – pretty heavy for me). Hopefully I have a nice archive of season reviews with the time.

Blog Series: Abroad (Episode 5: The Season Filler)

Well, here I am. Nothing much happened – it’s like I am home. That’s why I didn’t write something for quite a while. I am sitting here, watching out the window, see the sun shining and saw the snow melt (it snowed two days ago over night). I am looking for jobs and working on my resume. And I didn’t know that this is actually really complicated. For a guy like me, who has no real experience, it is hard to fill one site of a resume. Every day I am trying to put one or two more words in it to fill the site.
Then there are the job offers: Almost all of them demand experiences. And a driver’s license. Like I said, I don’t have any of this. The experience from my 23 months in the German Army don’t help me very much and I can’t drive a car and don’t have the money to go to the driving school (maybe in two, three years).
Then there is the living community: Along with me there are six guys living here. Four of them are Mexican, and I don’t know from where the fifth guy is coming. Pretty bad for me, because I wanted to improve my English – and this can’t go, when I have to talk to Mexicans. But the rent is really cheap, paying $370 per month with everything in it. My roommate is still snoring, but I am getting used to it. When it is starting in the night, I put the ear plugs in and listen to music.
The weather is too warm for me. Every day the sun is shining and it is raining once every two weeks. When I go out it is cold like hell and I freeze, but when I go home, the temperature raises and I begin to sweat. That’s why I started to think about going in for sports. Running up and down the street, doing sit-ups, push-ups and so on. Well, I started yesterday with 35 push-ups and planning to do some more today. After my discharge from the German Army I never did sports and it pays back now. Life is a bitch.
The day before yesterday this building I am living right now was crap. First there was no hot water (instead some red colored water came out), then the sink from the toilet said good bye. Fortunately it was just the guest toilet, so the main one is still working. The sink has to be glued with some waterproof super glue to keep off the water from running down.
This is the inside of the toilet tank. Click on the picture to see more, if you can make something out of it, than you have a really good eye.

I thought about giving some words about my blog, because I finally figured out what to do with it. Alongside the German reviews of some television shows I will give some season reviews in English. As some of you know I am a TV junkie, watching almost every TV series I find. And as some of you maybe remember the beginning of this blog (and of my old livejournal), I wrote a list with every episode I watched and gave some words about it. Well, my new “plan” allows me to do this all over again, but with a better overview: I will comment every episode I see and when I finished the season of the series I will post it here. In English, with points. I did it already with the first season of Star Trek: The New Generation and I am currently watching a whole bunch of TV shows, so you can count on finding something sometimes next week (or maybe a little bit later).
And I planned to watch some more movies (or: watching movies again). I watched only six of my “99 Movies in 2009″ and it is March already. So, let’s be thrilled of what is to come in the next few weeks. As you can see I am active with the posts and I hope it will stay that way; it is possible that I will loose the passion again next month, but at the moment I am on fire writing something

US Election 08

A little bit about the important hours currently in the USA?

Three news coverages, three results

– ABC News: Obama – McCain 174-76
– CNN: Obama – McCain 174-49
– MSNBC: Obama – McCain 175-70

Do we have to pick one result?

A little update 5am CET
Barack Obama wins election. I suspected it during the results of the middle states, as CNN played this little game, what happens, if John McCain wins the middle states except Florida and the west coast and it was clear he couldn’t get all the 270 electors. So it was no big surprise.
But Obama’s big-time win over McCain (338 electors for Obama against 155 electors for McCain – 05:43am CET) was a little bit surprising. Because this victory was like a walkover.

Okay, I’m waiting for Obama’s speech, then I’m going to bed. Maybe I will write something more about the election in a few days (maybe not, I don’t know).