🇬🇧"Hello, is that the local gym ? I cancelled my subscription but am requesting you drop your "unnecessary barriers" to me working out on your machines again..... Hello ?" 🤡

Going to a Christmas market with the treasurer takes the fun out of it. “See the security guard? Security costs 8,000€!” “A bratwurst stand cancelled at the last minute, 5,000€ less rent!” 🎄

Three people my age who I know professionally or privately are retiring in the next few weeks.

Chancellor Scholz loses confidence vote in German Bundestag, as planned zeit.de/politik/d…

Met the US Consul General at a reception and got his business card. That’s like a get-out-of-jail-free card, right?

Merry Christmas from your Finanzamt. Here’s your audit notice. 🎄

Holding a mini Christmas market in our carport with the neighbors

Christmas cheer in our drive-thru last night. Drunk driver refused to wait for order, shoved and insulted our manager, then threw his food at them. His female companion drove off without him, but the police happily removed him from the premises.

Seit der Herz-OP meiner Frau in diesem Jahr, heisst es “Yippie-Ya-Yay, Schweineklappe!” #Weihnachtsfilme

Holiday tradition cc: Celia

Die Welt, a conservative German daily, gave Elon Musk space to explain why he backs the AfD (the text would seem to align him more closely with the Union or FDP, but never mind). The paper's opinion editor has resigned in protest.

The Musk opinion piece in the Welt says a lot more about Welt and Springer than it does about Musk or the AfD. (BTW is print still relevant? 😃)

For a German New Year’s Eve TV tradition that’s not Dinner for One, 3sat shows pop concerts all day until 6 am New Year’s Day. 3sat.de/kultur/po…

Our new neighbor wishes Happy New Year and please don’t shoot fireworks at me