Hey dudes out there, dead after another douala night, so dead that you haven't made it to the phone:-) But anywhere: Hey ho everyone out there!

I'm in LA for over 3 weeks now, wow, feels good! I think I've arrived... During the week it starts to become a pretty normal everyday procedure, stand up, skype with germany, go to work, go to the beach or jogging and then back home, cooking some great vegetarian meals, work a bit and then after Nitro Circus or Scrubs fell asleep like a baby! So today there isn't that much worth talking about. Work was cool, nice and funny project (cause the customers suck somehow) and yes so we're making things funny these days... Had a shout to Claudio, former intern at TSign LA now intern in Warshow, studying and living in Ulm, he asked if i'd be interested in a "Band-Regulars-Table" when I'm back home. It's all about hanging around in the rehersal room, drinkin (a lot of) beer and making punk rock music just for fun. Sounds pretty good in my ears:-)

Right now I'm working on a project, which I'm actually doing for more then 100 months, it's for my Icehockey-Mate Flipper. He wants me to do a huge 3D sticker he can put to his garagegate that it looks like there is an italian landscape behind the doors...stuff like that...yeah. I'll show it to you after it's finished....Talkin about Finish! I miss my Matti-Finish-Katzebohle back home! Need you there when I'm back home!! On the pic beside this text you see the best working place in the world! Macbook, beer and MEEEEGGGAAAAANNNN FOOOOOOXXXX!;-)

So be prepared for a huge weekend update soon!
Enjoy your last working day this week, enjoy your beer and let it float!
Hang in there!
All the best!
Don

Hey guys out there, this will be just a short update cause during the week there isn't that mucht to tell. Work is acutally really cool, some cool projects, so it's really veried these days and a lot of fun. Yesterday and today I went to the beach straight after work and it was awesome! We got over 35 degrees over the day here and at the late afternoon still over 25 - warm enought to enjoy the ocean! There are some pretty good waves these days, very very good for some bodysurfdrops out there...And I've been in good company yesterday, a cute blonde girl was also trying to bodysurf and looked sweet;-) So I hoped for the same company today but all I was get was: "Ey duuude, this wave wasss amaaaaazing, I even flipped arround wuuuhuuuu!" I turned around and saw a completely tatooed, almost teethless jailbird standing next to me....too bad:-)

After the beacht I went jogging again, but the best thing on that was - I came home, tried to open the always open door - nothing! Locked and I hadn't a cell or the keys with me...So I sat down at the terrace and the good thing was: MY BEER IS IN THE FRIDGE AT THE GARAGE!!! Hehehe, so I've been sitting there and drinkin beer! The good thing was that I haven't been eating for hours and no one showed up till one and a half hours later...So, Yes I've been hammered a bit:-)

That should be enough for now, I still can't decide how much I wanna spend on my surfboard, everything under 300$ seems to be crap...but lets see. Kessi and Janine will come back tonight, so we'll probably hang out tomorrow and then the weekend isn't that far away.

All the best!
Hugs and Kisses!
Don

A wonderful good evening fellas!
The weekend was wonderful! Like I've already mentioned I met Kessi and Janine here in LA and we hung out a lot the last two days. Yesterday we've spent a wonderful day at the beautiful Huntington Beach! Super weather conditions, nice waves, surfers and kitesurfers. Perfect sunday! We chilled in the sun, went into the water to bodysurf and threw the football... After the beach I visited my new restaurant I've bought a few days ago. Of course it's no vegetarian gay bar... no I sell fresh fish and long eels cought with my bare hands! I named it DON THE BEACHCOMBER! If you should pass by, tell them you're one of my Katzebohl-99ers-Team and you get an eel for free! To get rid of my fat I went jogging between beach and hangin out at night. After showering and eating a fresh green apple (what is wrong with me?!?! apples, sports,...( I promise, i don't forget the beer everynight... :-)) Janine and Kessi picked me up to visit Santa Monica. We went to a nice restaurant with a tasty vegieburger, so huge, I couldn't even get it into my mouth:-) Because they haven't seen the pier, we went down there once more, wow not even 3 weeks and I've been 3 times to the Santa Monica Pier, but it's really beautiful there, look here:



Back at the third street, the center of Santa Monica, I showed them one of the best desserts I've ever eaten. Pinkberrys is a store you can buy frozen yoghourt with fresh fruits and it's delicious like hell, even if your brain freezes while eating:-) We where all so tired caused by the sunny day at the beach that we decided to drive back home. They left today morning for their trip to San Francisco and will be back on Friday and then: STORY OF THE YEAR WITH KESSI! History catches us:-) But in a nice way!

Today was a cool day, work was cool, even if you'd rather like to drink a beer than fighting with computer-problems for a couple of hours, but hey, I get paid for that and I can only learn. After work I went to the car wash next to our office to clean my car from the in and outside and it was so funny how much dirt went off the car! I'm sure now, this car hasn't been cleaned sind WWII! But now it looks gorgeous, also from the inside, fresh cleaned and fixed (of course with duct tape hehehe, but hey it works, my roof and my license tag are held perfectly by it)! I'll post some cool pics of my ride soon! I even got some Rip-Curl Pimp Stickers on it! Here's one more shot in front of my restaurant, lifting up a 200 pounder, with one hand!!!


One thing left, the update from yesterday, the bike-parade from the hollywood boulevard, quality sucks, but anyway, enjoy it!

It's Sunday morning, just woke up after an evening spent in Hollywood. I hope all of you guys out there are doing good - cause I do!

Who thought that, Kessi, my former Band member and dear friend would be the first visiting me here in Los Angeles! Great! He's here with his girl for over one week, a few days in LA then SF and then back to LA! What means I got 2 weekends to spend with them, what is actually absolutely perfect.

But lets start from yesterday morning. I went to an outletstore located east of downtown, more than 50 shops in it. I've stood up extra early cause I thought the hell would be going on there at noon. But as I should notice, doors are opened at 10. Cool! But who cares! I waited in my sweet ride, already dying by the heat. At ten I went into the complex, time for shopping baby!!! There are so many stores, the favs for me: Quicksilver, Billabong, Vans. And somehow I was a bit disappointed, of cause it was a lot cheaper then in Germany, but I've expected it to be more cheap. I think this outlet is the way to close to downtown and the outlets between LA and SF are a lot cheaper. But anyway, I shopped a 2 Quicksilver Shirts, 1 Longsleeve, a Vans Cap, a Vans Short and an original Levi Jeans for only 75€! Hehe! Sweer ah?!
For lunch I tried a mexican grill, food was okay, but the funny thing: As you see at the picture, you get a pager, vibrating when you food is ready! Hahahah! America, your helmet is turning the way to fast!!

Back home, I cleaned my car a bit and decided to hang out at Venice Beach. But unfortunatel the sky darkened and sun went away when I drove there, anywhere I caught a few bodysurf waves and enjoyed the still not that cold water. Then, finally, my phone rang! Kessi reached me, perfect. So we set up a date for the evening. They arrived here about 8 and told me bout their previous stop in NY. And now I'm stoked to go there (Matti, Georg - Prepare!) at the end of my trip. We went out in their sweet rental car to the panini bar I love, near my office. After that we decided to go to Hollywood. After a long and crazy drive through the backyards of LA city we finally arrived there...and again, the first thing you see, homeless. But anyway, we went the famous Walk of Fame. But somehow it wasn't that glamorous as I've expected, but maybe the reason for this was that we havent been at the area where all the famous stars are located. We saw about 200 Stars on the sidewalk, but I just knew two of them...as you can see below.

The famous Les Paul, who died about a week ago and the other tragic story guy, Micheal. But as we planned we will go to Hollywood and Downtown one more time today and maybe then I'll find the Bruce Willis' and Will Smiths' at the Walk of fame.

And here is something for Mum: You won't believe it, as a boy with an age of 22 years, I've been washing the laundry the first time in my life on my own!!! So I think here is the point to say thank you for all of these years. Hehehe! And why the hell should I start a smoothing iron??? Nobody needs to ironing boxershorts or shirts after the drier! So I really got to say, washing is not that hard as I've expected it and ironing is not necessary in any way!!


Wow, this is a huge update for my blog, I just wanted to drop a few lines and go for breakfast but now it's getting longer and longer. But there is only one thing left to update, as we've been to hollywood there was some kind of a flashmob or demonstration or something like that. Suddenly hundreds of bycicles went down the Hollywood Boulevard...why? Nobody could tell us, but see it here (video of it, tomorrow):


That should be it for today, now: Shopping, Breakfast, Car Cleaning, BEACH!!! and then Downtown or Hollywood! How sweet is life?!
See you guys soon!

(Haven't read through it, forgive me if I typed some mistakes - Georg cares for that!)