Isn't it weird, that some days start out quite well. And then, all a sutton someone has the great idea to give out funny pills. That is when the day starts circling the drain and from second to second the circal is gaining speed.

It all started off with a colleage, who thought he might help me a bit by internationally promoting test versions of software as the new standard and asks me for documentation for our international admins.
Hmm,  don't you think there would be documentation if the software would be released! Use your brain, take a fucking chance, will ya.
We also decided to save some money and do our phone hotline ourselfs for some time. I totally forgot how users can be... Here greatest highlights:

User: "My notebook hung up and it wouldn't turn off. I removed the battery and then all cables, but the power light is still burning."
Me:"Hmm, did you remove both at the same time?"
User: Oh thats the hint of the day, now its off"

but, like Malcom Young of AC/DC sings "... i will be back in the ring for a nother swing!"

I got myself a char cole chimney and for the weber grill, and the indirect grilling cages.
I got the cheap chimney from Amazon for 12€ but it works great. I just burned the black color off. But who needs color when the burgers are waiting.

Today was the day to try'em out! hmmmm... is all i can say!
 
Next, try to slow smoke ribs and upgrade my famous bullseye ribs to version 2.0!

Out of family reasons we had to pospone our Ireland vacation for 3 weeks.We leave on the 16th of May.
So back to work !!!

About that mass media scare swine flue...

in my opinion its way over cooked. Ok the swine flu is stronger than the regular flu, but whats the symptoms? Chills, fever, pharyngitis, muscle pain, headache, coughin and weakness. Many people have it over the year all over the world.
Oh, ok you say the swine flu killed already around 200 people and the bird flu killed around 800 people.
Just for the scared ones, the regular flu kills around 1000 people EVERY year. Mostly older people.

My bigger fear is, don't you think its weard how often such mutated flu's occour by now?
And how convenient that only on company (rouche) worked a cure ...

Before the bird flu the pandemic flu's occured around every 10 to 30 years.

Name of pandemic	Date	Deaths	Subtype involved	Pandemic Severity Index
Asiatic (Russian) Flu	1889–1890	1 million	possibly H2N2	?
Spanish Flu	1918–1920	40 to 100 million	H1N1	5
Asian Flu	1957–1958	1 to 1.5 million	H2N2	2
Hong Kong Flu	1968–1969	0.75 to 1 million	H3N2	2

And when was the bird flu? Ok it wasn't pandemic.
For how wants to know more : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu


I just think it's weird that the media makes such a big deal out of it.
Also i have easy talking, the swine flu did't arrive yet in Germany.

By the way i think it's more scary that there where over 21000 AIDS death world wide than 1000  to 5000 flu deaths. But the media doesn't jump on that anymore.

St. Paddy is over, but on Saturday we are leaving for Ireland.
So i will blog from there for 2 Weeks, and knowing that there is more vacation days left.

Strange feeling after 3 years with 10 days of vacation.

Thanks to Daniel for the idea with the blog head.

We wanted to give our furniture a break and decided to build the cat a cutom scratch tree.
The ones you can buy, are not looking nice and didn't fit to our furniture.

The work was worth it, because the cat adopted the tree instantly.