Family Blog

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
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Philip and Nina has married on the last days of 2020. The celebration took place on a very small scale.
We wish you all the best for 2021.

This year Easter can only be celebrated in a small family circle because of the Corona virus. Meetings with more than 2 persons are not allowed in the Stuttgart area. But we can go for a walk and enjoy the spring. At the moment it is sunny and over 70°F warm.

"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential."
(Ellen Goodman)

Yesterday Philip was one of the students of the SimTech course who got his Bachelor's degree.

Yesterday was Long Night of the Museums in Stuttgart. One of the highlights were the Porsche Museum and the Daimler Museum. But there were also locations opened where you cannot get in normally. One of such museums was the one at Alcatel Lucent, where I work 20 years ago (not at the museum, but at some machines you could see there). You see i.a. a PBX from the beginning of the 20th century in action (ok, this machine was devoloped before my time at Alcatel Lucent) and an old phone booth with coin slots which remembered me at my youth.

At the harbour of Stuttgart you could take a boat tour but there were so many people and you have to wait about 30 minutes. So we decided to take one of the buses labeled with "Wine Tour" and to visit an old wine press and a wine cellar in Untertürkheim, which was a bunker in former times.

To go back home we used an old tram to get to the train station. All in all it was a great night which was too short.

Wow - what an exiting and intensive final of the #WorldCup yesterday - Argentina against Germany. It was not a game for the faint of heart and Argentina was a very strong opponent. But now the game and the last night is over and we are all still tired but happy.

Simply beautiful!! #Weltmeister #GERARG #FifaWorldCup pic.twitter.com/FYv70DyExG

— Marc A. Brinkmann (@marcbrinkmann) 13. Juli 2014

Last month there was a hard disk crash on blogger.de. Whereas the data could be restored images and PDF files are still missing. With a little luck the missing files can be restored from the crashed disk - but this will take some time. I hope that this will happen in July.

In the meantime you can use the Internet Archive or Google to find the missing images.

Yesterday I was with my children at the soccer game "Germany - Chile" which was a birthday present of them. Although the Germans played not so good it was a great atmosphere in the stadium. We had luck and were behind that goal where the most actions were. In the first half the German team was stronger and led 1-0 whereas in the 2nd half the Chilean team was stronger. But it remained 1-0.

Since March my first app is now available at the Appstore - CashClock. It's a simple stopp watch which measures not the time but the money.

Time is Money (Benjamin Franklin)