In the afternoon we went to the pub to have lunch with Michelle and Ryan and some of her friends. It was her birthday this week.
Michelle and Ryan ordered a chicken schnitzel (top) and a beef schnitzel (bottom). This gives you a good idea why Nicole and I long for a restaurant that serves European size portions. With stuff like this there is no room for starters or deserts. Having a nice meal with with friends is over quickly coz you can only have 1 course.
Around 15:00 we had to leave coz it was getting really warm outside. Tomorrow is s'posed to be even worse...
I was making a little test-track for my modeltrains. I designed a tiny track using my DRail software but it didn't fit right. So I made the calculations myself. Nice way of putting all my highschool maths to work.
I worked it out and was able to make this.
While I could I thought I would try making some close-ups of some of my trains. This is an older NS 1100 loco.
The newer NS 1700.
2 old-style oil cars from "Bon Zaandam".
And a tiny locomotive from Bayern, Germany.Just to give you an idea about the size of these loco's. The scale is 1:160. This last little loco is about 3cm long.
5 comments:
Those are TEXAS portions. There are restaurants in Austin where I have NEVER ordered a delicious dessert for that same reason.
And I see a map of Australia under that geeky keyboard.
@ Kona: Colleagues of mine went to America for a Microsoft meeting. There were lots of other software developers that all had to be fed. They gave each and every one of them a gigantic steak. I imagine it's like the beef schnitzel. It's not a very good thing when you think about it. Humans don't need that amount of meat. Less than half is sufficient.
It sure is. Say, are you a bit jealous of my new Mac keyboard perhaps? ;-P
The more I wrestle with Microsoft the more jealous I am of any Mac product.
@ Kona: I never found myself wrestling with MS too much. I bought the Mac because of it's build. Everything in 1 screen. I was getting sick of a stupid tower under my desk. Mac design is just incredibly innovative. Being able to run Windows is required for what I do. This can now be done on the new Intel-based Macs. Also I was always in between mac lovers and PC lovers so having seen the PC side I thought I'd check out the Mac side as well. I have no regrets untill now but I did swear a fair bit while I was figuring out how things work on the Mac in the beginning.
Now, I think I'd favor a Mac over a PC.
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