A BBQ-Filled First German Weekend

I can declare, based on a small sample size of the German population, that Germans love to BBQ pork products. Luckily, my tastes and hankering for BBQ'd meat flesh mesh nicely with this German characteristic. Furthermore, the same population sample enjoyed drinking beer with BBQ flesh. Its like I'm the same as them.

It was a good weekend, took things pretty easy on Friday night and caught up on Scrubs, 30 Rock and the Black Donnellys thanks to iTunes. Saturday evening Bjorn (the son of the professor that I'm over here working with) invited me to a BBQ at his friends' place. Turns out that you can't really buy just beef here, so I picked up some ground pork-beef combination and made burgers out of that. That was actually quite good, as were the sausages and pork steaks others brought. Good times all around. Then, the fellows (5 of us - the 2 women begged off) went to a bar to play some foosball. I liked the bar, kind of a student spot, a little dive-barish and a few excellent foosball tables. After being thoroughly underwhelmed so far with the attractiveness of most German women, I was pleasantly surprised by the plethora of good-looking rock n roll type girls at the bar. I think it is safe to say that I will venture there again, if I can find it.

Did some work on Sunday, yes, I must work weekends as I have responsibilities both here and to continue my work from Madison. Later in the evening, I again consumed BBQ'd pig flesh. Bjorn (who lives right downstairs from me in the boarding house - although he has a proper apartment) his GF and his brother and I consumed copious amounts of meat. I think that unless I learn to exercise regularly, my pants will shortly no longer fit me.

Fairly uneventful day so far today. I have a talk to give on Wednesday, so putting the finishing touches on that and continuing to process some data from Madison. I also decided to suck it up and buy a digital camera. Its just too damn expensive to develop APS film. So, in a couple of days I'll be switching over. I found a nice SLR-like style digital - I refuse to go with the small point and shoots, I need something solid and real camera-like - the Fujifilm Finepix S5700.

Well, that's it for now, I must decide where, if anywhere, I would like to travel to this weekend. Suggestions, votes? My main options are Vienna, Salzburg, and Munich.