A perfect weekend

After a stressfull week, there´s nothing better than relaxing and hanging around with friends at the weekend. This weekend was pretty much perfect.

On friday I had the obligatory poker league game. Our furnishing was extended by a fridge and a microwave this time.

The big surprise was, that I actually ended first place. That´s pretty unusual for me. To commemorate this, I took a photo of my winning hand:

On Saturday, a friend gave a party to celebrate his birthday. It was interesting and funny. What bugs me, though, is that we seem to adopt the behaviour of our parents. After finishing dinner, the men separated from the women. We told old army stories and let the women have their talk about whatever women talk about when they are among themselves. I have never noticed this to happen before. A sign of old age probably? I´ll have to keep an eye on it on further occasions.

On Sunday morning we went to the shooting range. It´s perfect for clearing your thoughts and just live for the moment. Besides, I love the smell of gunpowder in the morning....

All in all, a perfect weekend.

The unmentioned risks of Youtube

Today I was a member of a board that conducted the final examination of some trainees. As you could imagine it was a highly official setting and the trainees were quite a bit nervous. My part was simply to remain silent, to take notes and afterwards discuss the given answers with the other boardmembers and decide upon the grades we would give.

Unfortunately, I have been watching so many Youtube videos lately, that some really silly joke stuck in my memory. So when one of the examinees gave an answer like "in this case size doesn´t matter" I had to work pretty hard to repress the urge of replying "That´s what she said!". I´m glad that I couldn´t watch my face at this, because I think I must have looked pretty stupid.

Only later did it occur to me that this reply would not only have ruined the examination; it would have been a joke on my cost as well...

Exaggeration and overkill

I love it how some simple things can evolve quite far when you have some creative and borderline silly guys around...

So this all started when some friends of mine got into poker (Texas Holdem of course).
At first, we only played occasionally. Then we decided (being german) that we have to have a club, no , a league, and play every other week. So the league of the extraordinarily ordinary gentlemen was founded.

Another few months later, we decided that it was absolutely necessary to have an own poker room. Fortunately the father-in-law of one of us owns a farm with some unused old buildings we could renovate. Some workdays later, after groundworks (quite some cubic metres of sand and concrete, a new floor, some paint etc. the room was ready.
Piece by piece the furnishing came in as well. A poker table, chairs, cupboards, lamps, an old couch, a radio, a computer, a TV-Set, a game console, some electric heaters etc.

All the stuff you can´t do without when you play poker every other week, right?

The funniest thing was when lately somebody brought along an old oven to heat frozen pizzas. This was the time the fuse blew. We are now considering upgrading the wires...