Shed/Playhouse

Nothing much happend...in the last time. Andrew, Adam, Jack and I are building a 8 foot (2.5m) wooden playhouse in the back yard. So far we constructed the floor and the frames for the walls. It is a nice project but a lot of work. We want to built in a second floor.
Yesterday Kevin, Kristin, Joe and I have been at Easystreet. Tonight we do not have a plan so far.

Beach of Fire island

To sum up Fire island is a very nice place to visit. Different to Longisland it is much smaller and more Island Feeling. The people in the area we went to there all used little strollers to carry food and other stuff. They did not have cars but a lot of bikes. The houses are all built on wood beams.
It is a 40 min ride with the ferry and then u are in a completely different world.
The long large beaches are visited by a lot of tourists.
The tuque water of the ocean splashes in waves up to 4 meters on the beach and takes everything what does not move with it.
Before sunset we had a cocktail in one of the local bars. Then we went on the ferry to get back to our car. The sun was sinking into the horizon while we were sitting on the windy top of the boat.
Today we went to point lookout another nice beach place much closer but it did not have the island feeling.

lg Klemens

dc misery

...just a little update. i did not get any place at any hostel in DC. so i ll go there another weekend.
today we go to fire island east from here. it is on the open ocean.

trip to DC

ok... today at 2 pm i ll head for NYC to get to DC. i do not have a place to stay so far. I think i just gonna take the bus and see what happens. in the worst case. i ll gonna make through the night or sleep at the bus station. I ll gonna buy some food and the new I phone 3G in NYC.
i should go to bed get some rest work and then start my trip.

Garden City Pool

Today nothing special happened. I cooked ricerony and chicken for lunch. After I went to the pool with the kids. They closed it down at 5 pm because of technical difficulties. Maybe somebody puked in it we don't know. For dinner i made cheeseburgers salad and pasta for Andrew. In the evening we watched the lord of the ring "The fellowship of the ring".
I am starting to plan my trip to Washington DC on this weekend. I am looking forward seeing a lot of interesting places there.

lg Klemens

Hoffman Party 4th of July

The party at Hoffman's was again a big success. Only the wired neighbor was pissing around about the fireworks the people launched.
We were like around 60 people not even Hoffman new all those guys. We had BBQ, campfire, Wee+Beamer, Beer Pong, good weather and kegs of beer.

The next day we cleaned everything up and started over again more civilized.
I took pictures again and put them on Facebook and Picasa.
Today after almost eleven hours of work we met Starbucks-Steve and the rest of the crew. He was celebrating his 21 birthday and got WASTED. I drove and was glad not to able to drink. Earlier that evening I took some tablets because I got a headache.

lg Klemens

Independence Day Marquee

Yello,
yesterday was the independence day. We went to NYC. To see the big Fireworks at the east river we headed for queens.
It was really an amazing fireworks show. They had rockets which shoot cubes, smiles and stripes which last 30 seconds static in the position?!
To take good pictures without a tripod was for me not really possible.
Later when thousands of people wanted to get back to NYC it was impossible to get a cab. Luckily we found a cab reparation garage. The girls ask friendly if they could give us 5 a ride. So we got a 25$ trip which was good because the traffic was terrible and if we would have paid with the clock counter we had to pay more for sure.
We drove to a club called Marquee. Mike got in touch with one of the promoters. I think they are bringing hot girls in the club and get them drunk so that everybody has a great time. That is why we all got in for free and sat in the VIP lounge and got drinks served without paying. It was a very fancy small two floor night-club.
The cheapest bottle in this club is 375$ plus tip makes 650$ just to sit down. They also got bottles up to 10.000$. Mostly millionaires, models and stars are able to get in.
The funny thing is that I was wearing my casual cloths because I did not know we would go there and so I was the most under dressed person in the club. LOL But we all had fun dancing and drinking.
Another thing I can check off my list to do in NYC. Go into a high end club.
At 5 am we finally got home.
Tonight there is gonna be a independence party at Hoffmans it will also gonna be awesome. More about this party later.

lg Klemens

more pics from the night

LHC particle raceway

The largest experiment of human kind is gonna take place in about 1 month. The "Large Hadron Collider" eng is a 27 km large tubering is built underground in France and Swiss. It will speed up particles and will let them crash 600 mio times per second. Scientist think they will be able to generate a simulated big bang "Urknall". They will create a fireball with enourmous tempretures ("a few billions of Celsius")!
1.000.000.000 = one billion
1.000.000.000 C° = 1 800 000 032 degrees Fahrenheit.
If everything it works like the theoretics promiss it will be the invention or the milestone for our generation. 2500 outstanding scientist, best at each subject from all over the world are working like bees for the greater good. Not a single person understands the whole machine anymore. Its gonna be bigger than the landing on the moon or the invention of the electric light.
They hope to generate mini black holes and finally find the 25 particle called "Higgs".
Some people are afraid this gigantic machine will destroy earth. We will gonna find out when they start launching the particle raceway at the beginning of August.
I am really intrested at the process and the results. I hope we wont blew up earth in a gigantic firestorm or eaten up in a black hole.

lg Klemens

You don't mess with the Zohan

Yesterday I watched "You don't mess with the Zohan" with Kevin. Adam Sandler is Zohan a Israeli Counter Terrorist. He is tired of the never ending war between Israeli and Palestinian. He has a dream to become a hair stylist in NY. He tries to bluff people that he is dead and moves abroad, but his life is following him.
It is a funny movie with a lot of overacted scenes.
7 out of 10 *******

lg Klemens

Point Lookout

Today Chris Bronwyn and I went to the beach of point lookout. It had very nice sunny warm weather but the ocean is freaking cold! I did not bring my bath stuff so I went into with my boxers.

lg Klemens

The Happening

Bronwyn, Andrea, Ulrike, Chris and I watched "The Happening". That movie is about plants killing humans most likely because of their wasteful behavior. The plants put toxic gases in the air which makes the people kill them self.
The movie was more to laugh than to take it serious.
3 out of 10 stars ***
After the movie we went to a Mexican restaurant where I ate chicken Cesar salad!

lg Klemens

Flight

Hello everybody,
On the weekend I finished my final weekendclass course at C.W. Post. Last night I wrote my final post-assignment for the course and handed it in today. I should recive a certificate for finishing my credits, which means i ll get back my deposit.
Now it is official. I am comming home between the 8 and the 10 of september.
Jakob and Sophie are comming to NY between the 2 and the 9th, so maby I ll come home earlier than my siblings. ;)
I am looking forward to see all of you again.
@ Gutbrunners - I am looking forward to our Wiedersehenswasserpfeife.
greetz Klemens

First time part in a world record

More than 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours. The Guiness World Record people are now proofing the record. The browser is really nice smooth and got a lot of new cool features. One click bookmarking. Multi text selecting. First I missed my mouse gestures but with an add on the browser is also able to handle that. I recommend the following ones: Fire Gestures, Better Gmail, Forecastfox. To get the add ons you just have to click on Tools and then on Add-ons. Enjoy the new browsing era.

lg Klemens

Thunder Storm

Yesterday at night Bronwyn and I watched a Thunderstorm from the playground. It was somewhere north thats why it did not rain there. It was the first Thunderstorm I saw in America, because I live in the basement. Regretably I did not bring my camera.
Before I went with Mariko to the apple store and asked some questions about the new apple Iphone 3G. It is a I pod touch and the new I phone 2.0. Its gonna come out on July 11 for 199$ with 8GB. I think thats cheap, even if i dont use it as a phone i can go on the internet and use it as ipod touch. The touch right now costs 299$. Lets see if the prizes will drop on July 11.

lg Klemens

33° Celsius in the shade

Yesterday night I went out with Kristina, Mariko and Ute a girl from Salzburg she is an au pair from Brooklyn. It was really nice to meet another homeland fellow. We talked a lot about Austria.
The wheater today was terribly hot, we had 33° Celsius in the shade and there was a lot of humidity in the air. When I think about that it will get even more hot I cant look forward to it. Tommorrow it will get 36°.
Austria lost against Croatia 0:1. I couldn't see the match because the match was just on demand and I did not want to pay for it.
I also met a new au pair in Garden City today. Her name is Dorin she was born in Uganda and grew up in Sweden. She seems to be very nice. I ll gonna show her more of the GC tomorrow.

lg Klemens

EM Soccer

Hello,
It is a nice and warm saturday. Regretably I couldn't join Bronwyn and Ulrike to a trip to Bosten, because I've to work in the morning and in the afternoon.
Right now I have off till 3 pm and I read on orf.at that the opening game Swiss and Tschechien is on. I zaped through the TV and found a channel who is hosting the game.
Regretably I am not in Europe to see all the craziness.
I hope u are all enjoying the games. The first 50 minutes where boaring so far. There have been no goals...

lg Klemens

Kong Fu Panda

After a parade with 100 firetrucks in Garden City for a horse race somewhere in the land, I watched Kong Fu Panda with my Hostkids.
It is a nice kids movie i ll give it a 8 out 10. ********
Later I took the train to Floralpark where I met Kevin and Hoffman at Duggens. They are planing to make another party next weekend. Regretably I can not be there because I have to go to the classes at CW Post to get my Credits.


Happy Birthday dad! I made him a certificate for monumental protection. Thanks for the idea Floraian Schwarzenbacher

lg Klemens

Invisible Fence

Today the yardworkers drove with the lawn mover over the cable of the invisible fence and cut it so the dogs counld go outside. Mary ordered the fence people to repair it.
I took a look at it and bought new wire (1,60$) at the Home depot store. Later I attached it to the socket inside and put the wire trough the wall outside. Then I dug up a rill and attached the broken wire to the new wire. I sealed exposed parts and then I connection the ends which I also sealed with tape. Then I took Kovus collar and got shoked! The invisible fence was working again. I burried the cable and let the dogs outside.
Mary canceld the reparation gave me 2$ and if the dogs didn't cross the invisible fence then they get shoked if the would do it now! *-*-*-*-* barf!

lg Klemens

Our possible Route to New Orleans in August

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Bronwyn wants to make a trip xross country east to west. I will most likely go with her till the south coast to New Orleans. On this way we gonna cross Knoxville and Nashville in Tenessee. Driving time about a 22 hours. We want to get there in about 3days and spent two there. Then I will take a plane back to NY and she will get on heading west with Paul who will fly to New Orleans to join the road trip.

so long Klemens

Brooklyn Bridge Improove Everywhere

The video of the flash wave from the Brooklyn Bridge is finally finished. Regrettably it doesnt look that good. At least the GIF and some pictures are pretty awesome...

lg Klemens

Winamp Lyric Plugin

Hey,
Today I found a plugin for WinAmp and Windows Media Player. No longer searching for lyrics on the web. Just start listening to your favourite songs in one of these players and the lyrics will be displayed automatically.If the lyrics are not found, you can add them yourself :)
It is really an amazing feature which you wont miss anymore once you got it!

Bronwyn and I checked out Chillis a restaurant chain. It was quite good and afordable. Now I am watching the day after tomorrow.

lg Klemens

Lacrosse

Today when I picked up Andrew from the bus Joe C. had to come to our house because Mariko went to the dentist. When Adam got home Vincent C. also just got over from the Griffith's house (neighbors). We did the homework together but it was kind of a bit loud. Andrew finished first and started to play basketball.
After Mariko picked up the Como kids, Adam went to play the Smackdown VS RAW 2008 featuring ECW (extreme championship wrestling). At 6 Adam and I read books on the terrace and later Adam Andrew and I played Lacrosse (LAX). At 8 o'clock Adam watched the WWE Monday night Raw show. Andrew went to bed at 08:30. I will get off at 09:30 and then I will call Mariko.

so long Klemens and Adam

Makro Lenses

The wheater today was great. Ulrike and I went to Manhattan and it had sun everywhere. I bought new equipment for my Camera Eos 400D at Adorama at 14th street 5/6 Ave. I got a Canon 200mm Telelense, Makro Extensionstubes from Kenko and a Polarizer filter. I just spent 430$/ 273€ because the things where already used. I hope I got some time in the next days to try out my new stuff.
Later we walked to the Central Park and relaxed in the sun. After burning in the sun we walked to the Pennstation and rode to Mineola. We went to Starbucks and had coffee and tea. Then we walked home.
At night I went with Mariko to Applebees and ate some Onionrings and had a drink called Mudslide (Kahlua and Vannillaicream with chocklate topping).

lg Klemens

Floralpark Mari Mary

Yello,
today I had to work from 3 till 7. After work, Mary from Brooklyn (old Nanny of the neighboors) came to visit. She and Mariko from the Comos came over to my basement. We took some weired pictures and took the train at 11 to Floralpark. There we went to Duggens and later walked to Easystreet.
There we met some friendly local people, who took us to another bar at Franklin square.

lg Klemens

Floralpark

Today Michelle came to visit us. Bronwyn drove us to Floralpark where we went out. First we went to Duggens and later we drove to Easy Street.

Fairground

After work till 09:30 Bronwyn Andrea, Kevin, and I went to the local fairground. It was already closing so we went on to "Easy Street" in Floralpark. We celebrated Bronwyns final exam till a few month.
After a few drinks Kevin brought me home. We all had to work the next day.

lg Klemens

Red Bull and Manner Wafers

Hello,
Today was a common working day(1:30pm - 9pm). Before I started I drove with the bike to the next supermarket and bought some Mannerwafferl and Red Bull... Yea we do have favourite Austrian exports. :)

lg Klemens

James Hoffman BBQ, NL 54

Hello everybody,
After some batch work I finally got the perfect image-size for the internet.
Everybody is welcome to write comments. If anybody wants to have some of the pictures in high resolution just ask me.

I uploaded them on flickr.com. Regredably the order of the time is not 100% correct.



But i am sure u should be able to find pics of u if u have joined the party. :)
Below here some links with all the pictures:
Overview of all
Here a slide show

About the party: It was an awesome first "real American party" for me. Red Cups, Beer Pong, Slip & Slide and English speaking drunks. Altogether I think it was a big success and i it was nice to have so many different people/cultures together.
I hope everybody had as much fun as me so stay cool. C U @ the next party.

lg Klemens

EDIT: I was able to arrange the Pictures by date now everything should be in order!

Easy street

Yesterday Kevin, Hoffmann, Kristina and I went to "easy street" a bar in Floral Park. We a lot of fun. At the Gasstation I bought chips and weired looking cake. It looked like a pink hegehog. It was very nice to hang out with some guys.










I brought my small camera and took a few pix. Tonight we did not decide what we are gonna do. Night is still young 8:46

lg Klemens