They have arrived. And they will be playing the Schön-Klinik Veranstaltungshalle the day after tomorrow.

I’m talking about the Irish band Pickville. Haven’t heard of them? Neither have I:) – But: I found a clip on youtube (597 views) from their gig on the St. Pauli (that’s where the Reeperbahn is) Weihnachtsmarkt three years ago. It’s not bad but it’s not really so Irish, I would say – with all due respect:)

I think I mentioned that we had a meeting with Pádraig’s doctor yesterday. Well, he didn’t loose any time. Real German efficiency. This morning, the dentist apparently called in to take an impression for a new tooth guard (the old one is broken). The urologist called in to change the type of catheter Pádraig has from the ‘standard’ one (quite intrusive and prone to cause infections) to another one which will also allow his bladder to function in a more normal fashion again, we hope. And if that wasn’t enough, he started him on an additional, new drug to see whether that will make a difference in Pádraig’s responsiveness. Apparently, it’s a kind of drug that can show good results in the early days after a brain injury. It’ll be gradually increased over the next 3 weeks. We’ll see how that will work.

There must have been quite some action in Pádraig’s room today, because all these doctors also had to work around quite a bit of therapy that was going on at the same time.

Talking about action: I got some pictures from my ‘run’. Everybody gets these. They want you to buy the high-res versions. Looking at them, I wonder what on earth I’m doing wrong? You know, I’m doing this, I’m doing these runs to have fun, yes! To challenge myself, to push myself beyond my normal limits, to keep fit – all those things and more. Here on the left is what I would consider the ‘best’ of the pictures they sent me: does that look like as if I was having fun? And you don’t really want to see the other pictures. They should give them to me for free because – who in the world would ever even dream of *buying* such images of misery?

Today’s German Music Tip
257ERS: HIP-HOP AUS DEM POTT Three rappers from Essen-Kupferdreh in the “Kohlenpott” (another word for Ruhr Valley) performing at the 9th Reeperbahnfestival last weekend, with their one and only ‘musician’ who, as they say in the intro, doesn’t do much more than pressing a button. The by-text says that their texts are full of humour. Maybe I wasn’t listening closely enough:)? You can listen back at some of the other concerts from the weekend here.
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