Ex-AOL beer bash in Cafe Miller Fri, Jan 22, 2010

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The pic here from summer 2007 in my ole flat in Poppenbuettel. was a fun eve, playing table tennis with the lads...

anyway, at www.SlamCon.de you can see the invitation for the ex-AOL beer bash tomorrow.

SlamCon is my latest baby, the result from going freelance: "SlamCon - International IT Project Management with Poetry und Faust"

Pretty much sorted out the tax office so far, businessplan is done too. and tomorrow a chat in regards to funding from the goverment... target date for starting Feb. 01, 2010.

now off to do some more work :)

last moments at work

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TGIO (thank god it's over)...

Party on friday was a smash hit. roughly 200 peeps made it, where some I haven't seen in like 7 years... organizing it (with contribs from other people of course) was a pain though. much more effort was needed than I had anticipated. but well worth it :-D

want a link to the pics? mail me, don't want to post it here, too public. link can be seen though at www.bye-btc.de

will be off to see mom and dad, hitting the road in two hours, like 1000 miles within two days...oh well :-( also, a friends granny died last weekend... I hope she'll be ok...

ASP - Abschlussparty - first beverages

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Right so... just 4 more days to go, then last day at AOL...here a pic showing the first beverages we bought...48 liters of coca cola, 20 liters of vodka, 12 liters of bitter lemon, 27 liters energy drink---we'll buy the rest in three days time...

Strange, odd, weird feelings, mixed with hope, happiness...after almost 11 years, to leave the company one believed in so much... AOL... still, few good peeps will be left behind...but hey, Cuba awaits me... two months in the Caribbean... :-D

anyways, details for ze party: everybody, who worked for/with AOL in the past, is welcome to join us for the party on Friday, Feb. 29, 2008. We'll start off at around 4 p.m., and take it from there. Address is "Beim Strohhause 25" (you may also use "Stiftstrasse 74" for your navigation system) in 20097 Hamburg. If you can't find it, text or call me or the guys at the reception - +49 40 36 159-0.

As we'll be having a lil show at 6 p.m., you better be there, else you'll miss something important...

Be there or be square, Klaussi :-)

P.S.: guestlist at www.bye-btc.de

Edit: thanks to Chris and Oli for this great flyer :-D

asfhh - a song for hamburg (2)

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firstoff - link to the Video: Es war ne geile Zeit   what people don't know... we had more than one running man... J. here also starred in some scenes...
the video itself seems to be great winner, almost 3 k hits after 2 weeks (now I even am a bit worried about Juli respectively their mgmt. asking for royalties...) oh well, we'll find a way if needs be...
I have to upload a few more pics ( flickr of course, and not AOL Pictures...), then I'll add a link here in this post.

even alley insider posted a lil article...

here a link to my first post a few weeks ago regarding the shooting of this video (incl. link to the french vid)

Edit: a youtube link to the video, maybe easier to embed in blogs :)

ASFHH - A Song for Hamburg 1

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As the colleagues in the AOL Paris Office did this great video ( PW is "aol lover" ), we here in Hamburg wanted to make one too... easier said than done, trust me...
it took us almost 3 weeks and 6 ish meetings, just to agree on the song (yay for Juli, "es war ne geile zeit")... anyways, we're almost halfway through, will be shooting the remainder next week (fingers crossed...)
this shot here shows Oliver and Oliver, during one of the short lunch brainstoming sessions.

Edit: final DE video can be found here

apart from that, I passed the ITIL foundation exam yesterday. one step closer to improving my CV for next year :) in 2 weeks time it'll be the PRINCE2 training course (I just hope I'll pass that too), and after that 3 weeks in Spain, Seville - language course. Vino Tinto y un cafe solo, por favour...

London heathrow - Disk write error

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Great, again I got up at 5:30... some might like it, I don't... told my colleagues about http://www.alleyinsider.com/ and how accurate some of the posts about AOL financials situation seem...
Took the tube to Barons Court, easy peasy really. Gave Steph her pressies, and now to talk about one more project, which we are supposed to "handle efficiently, no PRINCE2, but to adapt a pragmatic approach instead". sure :)
P.S: helping Sven to move house last Sat was tiring indeed. jaisus, was i wrecked or what on Sat eve...

Lunch in Paris (2)

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typical breakfast in www.Paul.fr - great way to start the day really :-D

and again we didn't have to pay (thanks Mehdi!) ... so sad really ;) and as you do on a friday, of course one has wine for lunch... even better, since it was one of the "cheap" St. Emillion ones...

Lunch in Paris (1)

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After we partied last night (started off in herzblut, sankt  ( st.) Pauli with food and three mai tai iirc; after we tipped

Funda - the cute waitress -
- onto ex-sparr - sambuca, mexicans and vodka lemon; home at midnight)I was pleased to get up at 5:15 a.m., to catch my plane...

flight went well (luckily). but the best (thanks to Martial) was the place we went for lunch. crowded, a bit sticky, but great food... plus, the usual rosé wine :-D

now back to work...

Wednesday action

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got up early (well, ok, like 07:30 a.m. is early!). arrived at coffe+cakes at a quarter to 9, Carsten got there just a few mins after. Kamil of course was late (09:20), but hey, he's the lil one, so it's ok :-D
Lunch in http://www.literaturhaus-hamburg.de/ with Claudia T.. hadn't seen her in 2 years, caught up rather quickly though. After an Espresso in http://www.alsterperle.com/ back to work... now just one more conf_call at 5, then off for today. nice one, or?

Smart and the Arc de Triomphe

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Was trying to get a pic of the group (Kim, Bogdan and Maurice) AND the Arc AND a smart car... well, great shot, innit ;)

Went to this Vietnamese place, great food. night cap #1 in this bar, where I was able to snag one of those lovely Ricard bottles. nightcap # 2 with this american guy and Andrew, talking til 2 a.m. about WWII and stuff... a tad tired this morning.
meeting? "one shot migration", "thorough QA prevents errors", and of course all of a sudden the very "drafty slides" from the previous day come across as facts...;)

Paris

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got up at 5:15, shower, finish packing, taxi came at 5:45...to the airport, quick check in (thank god for etix). lost my boarding pass, first coffee and first croissant (suprisingly tasty for a german one...). getting a new boarding pass from a very friendly air france crew member took only 2 mins. Met Phillip D.. flight on time, 3 seats for meself. second croissant and tea. drafty projectplan, and yes, doable  until sept. 15. landed on time, 4 of us in the taxi to the office, where I shot this one here. 1 more croissant plus one chocolote croissant plus 3 of these delicios lil cakes... introduction round, realised Kim is here. delighted to see her again, has been like 4 years??? Maurice and David here too, good :)new risk # 1: business ownership for this project changed. US guy really fast, only 5 mins. bravo :) now a good bit sales stuff instead of focusing on rqmts... yawn...

Trixi visiting from Vietnam

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and now wearing a russian army hat...;) and she still has that Berlin accent, which I think she'll never loose :-)

was mighty good seeing you!

going away party for ze zree...

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well, was mighty glad I found the pic...collected some signatures and a bit o money, so the three will get this picture each plus a nice bottle o Tullamore Dew. off to Herzblut ( http://www.herzblut-st-pauli.de/ ) tonight, hehe.

10 Years AOL...

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March 10, 1997.... can ye believe it?

summary "es war ne geile zeit" ("it was a Fcuking great time").

Olafs last day

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well, two people remaining at the floor here (down from 9)... and Klaus here will be leaving next monday too...

good thing is, I can pump up the volume (music listening wise), as nobody objects, hehe

Buddielist cleanup

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well well... ze end is near... not really, no. I am now proud member of the "transition team". which means, I will be staying for one more year. and as long as I hand in my notice per February 29, 2008, I will be eligible for the whole package (incl. the 6 months paid vacation etc...). BUT, it still was a very sad moment, when I just went though my buddielist and deleted quite a few names... like axelbirknerhh, abittkowski, olnordwich,  ianfang, mareked....

shite!

oh well, we'll get through the next 12 months, roigh?

P.S. link to some piccies from workmates

Tuesday Breakfast

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Oh well, what a great tuesday...

this pic just one of many from the "breakfast" series... Kamil didn't make it this morning...tz tz tz...;)

been home sick yesterday, just the right thing when I look at the weather... see how it all ends, we'll know in a week ish (hopefully...)

wish me luck!

Just looked at some of Jessies pics on flickr. nice ones, indeed. plus, memories creepin up... shoulda stayed in Ireland fer one more week (if only my liver wouldn't have been too damaged due to booze and grub, hehe)

teamday UK 2

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Thanks to Silke who dug that one out... almost 10 years ago... and funnily, I'll be omw to Dublin today, fer a week of enjoyment, no hazzle, lotsa booze, plenty of burgers, and surely one or the other beer fart in da morning (excuse me language, hehe)

strange thing though, I've been over so many times the past 10 years (20 - 30 times?), but this actually is the first time I will be paying for the flight and accomodation...

Oyster Stout, Westport, Guinness, Ed, Feargal, Jessy Eastpoint Park, Bray - here I come ;)

Ferry boat in the morning - training day 2

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what a splendid morning. again! blue sky, about 15 celsius, and at 08:25 a.m. I was omw to Oevelgoenne for the second training day. had to buy a bottle of water, as I was a "bit" thirsty from the Ouzo last night... ;) did the first group task and here pics from both Joern M. and Bernhard playing "ze Rama game".

PS: here some more pics from the harbour in the morning...

goodbye in Samos

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hm, maybe the last time Jo was in the office in Berliner Tor today. the lucky sod is on vacation starting today and flying out to the Maledives next week... anyhow, Frank Jo and I had some red wine, some ouzo, some more starters, some more food - had Moussaka as main course - not as nice as usual, a tad too salty imho :-(. too stuffed for desert, so we had one more raki instead :-D left about 9, and Jo was nice enough to drive me to the underground.