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Aha!

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That was easy, I just used the new picture upload feature in Blogger! Three aliens are hiding on this photo; can you find them all? I really got to go to bed now…

Roswell, New Mexico

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We started our vacation today by going from home to Roswell, New Mexico. I love driving in the States and prefer the slower but more interesting highways over the faster but more congested freeways. After hours of empty range land we arrived in the UFO capitol of the world and decided that it would be fitting to go see the new Spielberg movie, War of the Worlds. I had read Ebert’s review yesterday and thought that it cannot be that bad, but after watching I have to agree that the alien invasion did not make much sense. Why did they invade? What’s the point of destroying all humans if they want to suck out our blood later. They mastered interstellar travel and lightning transportation, but they do not know bacteria?

Anyway, tomorrow we are going to the UFO museum here in Roswell and maybe the Crash Down diner, then on to Texas.

How I am blogging from the middle of nowhere? I am schlepping Brenda’s computer with me after I finally (I think she sent it to us over a year ago…) patched it up and installed an affordable OS (Debian Linux). Unfortunately I still have to figure out how to connect my camera with it, so, no picture today, although I found this web page if you want some impressions of our first stay.

Gas price

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According to www.Benzinpreis.de Germans currently pay 1.23 Euros for one liter of Super (89, the middle choice, not the rocket fuel). With the current exchange rate of 1.2085 Dollars per Euro we get:

2.23 / 1.2085 / 3.7854118 = 0.4875…

1.23 x 1.2085 x 3.7854118 = 5.6268…

Quipso quostrum ex emptorum, you pay 5 bucks 63 for a gallon of gas in Germany! Did I hear anybody complain about the current price of gas?

Guido's Green Garden, Episode 5

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The radishes are ready!

My mom had to enlighten me about these long, high radish plants, of which you can see two in the picture above. Those are making seeds and had I not ripped them out with the other ones, I could have had free seeds for next year! She also suggested to lay the soaker hose along the rows and not accross, to prevent those gaps. So, as you can see, I still got to learn a few tricks.

Nonetheless, I let Amy snap a picture of me as proud home gardener:

In the back you can see the blooming (despite transplanting!) lillies and hollyhock. The weeds had a weeklong party, of course… Dunno if I can get it under control before we leave for our big trip on Sunday.