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  There were glitches along the way in setting up my Twitch account and uploading my first stream. To start I had my laptop settings on way too high for what the graphics and mouse in-game could handle, it was Lag City the first hour or so until I figured out what to do, which turned out to be a very simple fix to the game, simply change the settings from Ultra High Quality to Low and that did the trick. Sadly the first game I played, the escape from Helgen at level nothing didn't get recorded to my Twitch channel so I essentially streamed to the virtual ether of nothingness that is a g ..read more

 Last year I simply could not come up with a direction I wanted to take this blog, as I have recently come down with covid and restricted myself to my room for the duration of the quarantine I have decided to become a twitch streamer. The inspiration was not so much divinely begat upon me as one would think. I simply lost interest in playing games on my smartphone and decided to come up with something semi-productive to do while having fun. I was going to do this over my Xbox One but my wife who has not contracted the virus has set an encampment in the living room where the gaming platfo ..read more

 Lately, I have been scouring the internet for ways to make money online, mostly to no avail however about a week ago I found a site that pays significantly well for sharing their affiliate link to social media and taking part in short surveys. The only problem with the site is to get paid you have to have a certain number of people sign up through your affiliate link which is where I have been lacking in the success category. Long story short, last week I received a phone call telling me that I won a €750 gift card to McDonald's Germany. Intrigued and euphoric that I had actually won som ..read more

In recent years I have seen a few Teslas driving around Würzburg in Germany, where I live. They're cool to see, the Tesla cars, I watch a YouTuber who takes apart old Teslas and rebuilds them so on the rare occasion that I see an actual Tesla in real life I think it's pretty cool. Elon Musk traveling to Germany tends to make the headlines in Germany which I read through, I try my best to read German for two hours a day, unfortunately, when most of the headlines cover politics I tend to lose interest but the implementation of the Tesla Gigafactory in the Berlin area is something I have been fol ..read more

german.yabla.com starts its post on the word doch by "Faster than a short sentence, more powerful than a rebuttal, and able to refute strong statements in a single syllable..." Implying that it is a super word of the German language.  I've heard children go back and forth with "nein" and "doch!" for minutes on end, but it is much more than a version of "yeah-huh" doch as it is defined by the online German-English dictionary dict.cc has 380 definitions for the word Doch. And that is Doch a lot. When I was a bartender in Nuremberg customers would pass their time amusing themselves with the ..read more

I don't often have a reason to take the train in Germany, but when I do its usually pretty fun, what I like is that they are for the most part always on time (even though several expats in Germany social media profiles claim otherwise) shockingly clean for being busy all day, I attribute the cleanliness of the trains to the customers and the German mantra of Ordnung muss sein, there must be order. Lately, however, I've had to attend several VES doctor's visits due to my VA disability and Wurzburg is not one of the cities with doctors who have contracts with Veterans Evaluation Services, fortu ..read more

I find the variety of reasons that people move to Germany fascinating, a lot I do not understand, like just deciding to pick up and move here just because you want to live elsewhere I do not get, but there are plenty of people out there who do that, in fact, I follow a family who did that very thing I follow them on Instagram and YouTube their Username is My Merry Messy Life. I started living here because my very German wife had no interest in moving Stateside with me, the years passed, we had kids and now it seems like 2006 was only yesterday. It is amazing how time flies. @guypalumbo My ho ..read more

Recycling in Germany is a thing that many expats, immigrants, and people living here for a short while have taken note of and deemed worthy of their commentary on social media and blogs. There are compost bins, cardboard bins, three different bins for various colored bottles, bins for donating clothing, and most notorious of all, the Gelber Sack or Yellow Bag. The yellow bag is for plastic products. When I first started living with my wife I was taken aback at the whole sorting ordeal required, I had lived in Germany three years already but as part of the US military and in a barracks or dor ..read more

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a mycophile as a "devotee of mushrooms... Especially one whose hobby is hunting wild edible mushrooms." Since living in Germany I have been offered on more than one occasion to go pick wild mushrooms in the forest, I have denied myself the opportunity each time. The idea of traipsing through Bavarian woodland picking wild mushrooms to eat simply does not appeal to me. That and I read a horror story in the Reader's Digest magazine when I was a kid. The story was about a whole family who had to have their stomachs pumped after eating wild mushrooms. The po ..read more