Sunday, October 05, 2003

So Close, Yet So Far I'll tell you what's killing me.  What's killing me is that I'm in Germany and I am nowhere near Oktoberfest.  How lame is that? I should be down in Munich at the world's biggest beer festival getting the world's biggest hangover.  But no.  I'm at home after a weekend of trying to make my home look more like a home rather than a box with my stuff in it.  Rather than buying steins of beer, I was buying lamps this weekend.  Instead of hanging out with ladies with lots of beer, I hung out with...well, no one this weekend. Here are the stats for Oktoberfest last year: Six million visitors devoured 87 oxen, 58,746 pork legs, 219,405 pairs of pork sausages and almost half a million roast chickens and washed it all down with 5.5 million quarts of beer and 26,185 quarts of wine. Here are my stats so far for October this year: One beer.  One leg of something that I had yesterday at the furniture store.  Might have been beef.  No sausage.  No chicken. I'm going to go scream into my pillow now. Related links: Germans revel in beer, sausage, and Oktoberfest Official Oktoberfest website in English 9:45:41 PM     |

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