November started with a nerve-wrecking week. It was time for the US elections. Not a lot happened during the week itself except for constantly watching the news and trying to concentrate on work somehow at the same time. Everyone expected there to be no clear results on Tuesday, but even by Friday evening there was […]
Exploring a new Brooklyn neighborhood – Red Hook
Spontaneous Danish Pub Crawl On the first Tuesday in August, NY was struck by the tropical storm Isaias and the effects were quite visible on the streets with many fallen trees and broken branches. During the week, Franzi got a birthday card for her father’s upcoming birthday ready for its journey to Germany. To end […]
Silver linings – Phase 1 and 2 of reopening!
On June 1st, the city started to feel even more apocalyptic than it did so far. Almost all stores around us started to close their store fronts with plywood to protect themselves against looting or broken store fronts. This was an unfortunate side effect of the protests. Media coverage was overshadowing the real purpose of […]
COVID + Black lives matter – state of emergency x 2
We started the last week of April with a corona classic. First baking banana bread and then ordering some soulfood. Sushi for Franzi and a Katz’s pastrami sandwich for Alex. During the week Governor Cuomo announced NYC subway closures from 1-5 AM as the city neared 19.000 deaths. The week ended with the announcement that […]
Month 2 – NYC becoming the global Epicenter
Empty Streets of NYC At the beginning of April it sunk in that this will last a bit longer. Work got more time intensive since a lot of our time was spent in virtual meetings. Apart from that, we tried to keep ourselves fit with long walks in the empty New York City streets. We […]
COVID-19 strikes!
Grounded! On Monday, reality hit us hard. We got back from our vacation to Costa Rica the same day the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency. Nevertheless, we were happy to be back in NYC and Spring coming to town. After the first COVID-19 case on March 1st, our company moved […]
Heartshaped Pizza!
One more time, for the last time for this project, Franzi went on her way to California. To close off the good work, her and her colleague went for a team event and got a pedicure. Meanwhile Alex was in Minneapolis, Minnesota for a full-week workshop for his project. It was freezing cold at -25 […]
Old school Jazz in Williamsburg
Already the last weekend of January – crazy how time flies! This week it was back to Santa Ana, California for Franzi and Alex stayed in New York for work. Overall, a work week as usual – nothing crazy to be reported. Staying in the city Alex had a chance to follow our “old” morning […]
Kicking off Alex’s local art career ;)
Sad day: Con & Charly leaving. They were off to Mexico, while Franzi flew to California and Alex to Chicago. For the two of us, business as usual with a relatively uneventful week that passed by quickly. On Friday we first went to Spiegel to have a look at Alex’s drawings of two motorcycle tanks […]
Spring! Another sunny (foody) weekend with Charly & Con
Being in the same city for work for the first time The first work week of 2020 began with Franzi being in Madison and Alex flying out to Chicago. Now we were finally lucky. Franzi had to be in Chicago for an event on Tuesday, so she traveled there Monday afternoon and we could finally […]