{"id":28309,"date":"2018-09-18T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=28309"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:40:43","slug":"september-18-2018-the-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=28309","title":{"rendered":"September 18, 2018 – The Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have this lingering cold thing that doesn’t know if it wants to get worse or better.\u00a0 Instead, it’s just sorta… there.\u00a0 An annoyingly dry, scratchy throat with some cruddy drainage… a stuffy nose that’s not really stuffy so much as just… off.\u00a0 Ya know that NyQuil ad, the one that promises it’s “the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, aching, coughing, stuffy-head, fever, so you can rest medicine.” Total BS, it doesn’t seem to work for me… but their snakeoil promises are PRECISELY the outcome I want to have.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll try a bottle of Cabernet.<\/span><\/p>\n

In any case, I didn’t do much today — my biggest accomplishment was laundry courtesy of my AirBNB host (who DOES have a washer… but he told me I needed to walk a minute to the local laundromat for a dryer).\u00a0 I did wander up to Alexanderplatz to try and get some better shots there… but A LOT of that area is under construction.\u00a0 They’re building a better Berlin, but like construction the world over, it’s a whole lot of hammering and beep-beep-beeping and rrrrrrr’ing and not much in the way to look at.\u00a0 But I at least took a better shot of the Neptunbrunnen… or the Neptune Fountain for us English speakers.<\/p>\n

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Amidst this post, I thought I’d toss in a few other stray pseudo Kevin’s Postcards from Berlin, a medley of photos that don’t belong really anywhere which means I guess they belong here.<\/p>\n

When I was walking to the Berlin Opera, I knew I was getting close when I saw this restaurant… and the metro stop didn’t hurt either.<\/p>\n

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The dinner of champions:<\/p>\n

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Some signs at the Movenpick Berlin Hotel — first something about a 15 euro sleep experience.\u00a0 Let me tell you, I was billed A LOT more than 15 euros a night at that place.<\/p>\n

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Secondly there was this — I never met an hour that couldn’t be improved with chocolate.<\/p>\n

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As part of the Berlin Marathon security checks, we had to show our heat sealed participant wristband at a couple of checkpoints to get to the start line.\u00a0 Afterwards, I couldn’t get the damn thing off.\u00a0 I didn’t have scissors with me but I had a pair of nailclippers.\u00a0 Even trying to saw through that fabric was impossible.\u00a0 Eventually when I got to my AirBNB I took my host’s meat cleaver and sliced through it… didn’t even draw blood.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of the race, here are some shots courtesy of Lee Peacock from TravellingFit:<\/p>\n

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I’m still not clear if this is a warning sign or a line of demarcation.\u00a0 Is it that pickpockets are known to be active in this area… or is it the boundary where pickpocketing is allowed?<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what opera this is advertising, but it’s definitely intriguing.\u00a0 Maybe Lord of the Flies?\u00a0 Is there an operatic version of that?\u00a0 I was trying to think of another “pig” thing that might be a showstopper.\u00a0 Miss Piggy: An Opera About Moi?<\/p>\n

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So I’ve been a little obsessed with the walk signs here in Berlin — the green man to walk versus the faux-crucifiction red man to stop.\u00a0 Turns out there’s a whole cottage industry that sells walking man merch… and I was intrigued by this sign of the world’s different versions of the original Walk-man.<\/p>\n

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The breakfast of champions:<\/p>\n

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Well then it’s not ALL pizza then, is it?<\/p>\n

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This place features over 100 types of cereals… and like a morning themed Bubba Gump Shrimp franchise, you wouldn’t believe the number of dishes you can make with cereal.<\/p>\n

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I’ll take two butlers, please.\u00a0 I have a lot of butling to do…<\/p>\n

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I was interested to know more… until I found out it was all kinds of non-alcoholic lame<\/a>.\u00a0 What self-respecting cowboy would go for this?\u00a0 Although, ya know, one does get parched out on the range.<\/p>\n

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The songs I used to listen to are now on the classic rock\/easy listening stations.\u00a0 And my clothes are apparently rare-vintage.\u00a0 What a drag it is getting old.<\/p>\n

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SWAN!<\/p>\n

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Oh, please, let all garbage trucks have punny names.\u00a0 “Whatcha driving today, Johann?\u00a0 They got you in ‘Tonnasaurus Rex’ or are you skippering ‘Trash-lyvania 6-5000?'”<\/p>\n

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So this looks totally kid safe.<\/p>\n

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Here Shane Black’s “The Predator” is known as “Predator Upgrade.”\u00a0 Based on my buddy Brent’s review, it’s more like “Predator DOWN-grade!”\u00a0 Zing!<\/p>\n

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Man, I tried so hard to zoom out of the name “Dieter” on this but I just couldn’t figure out how to do it.\u00a0 Just know that I’m standing outside a costume shop called Dieter:<\/p>\n

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Boat races, construction and Museum Island.<\/p>\n

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Okay, so I see on my GoogleMap a place called the Deutsches Currywurst Museum and I feel like that is a must do… until I saw it was ELEVEN EUROS to go inside.\u00a0 I paid 24 euros to see an opera!\u00a0 I paid 19 euros to learn how to make cheese.\u00a0 Cost per minute analysis meant the Currywurst was THE WORST!<\/p>\n

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But some amazing merchandise… and I kind of regret not getting my photo with that weird Sausage mascot.<\/p>\n

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Unimpressed with the surrounding brat places by the museum, I decided to embrace the pun and ate at Checkpoint Charlie’s Checkpoint Curry.\u00a0 It was… dog-gone mediocre and overpriced.<\/p>\n

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There’s a banned Disney cartoon wherein Donald Duck fights Hitler<\/a>.\u00a0 The times they have a changed.<\/p>\n

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I think I posted this to instagram already but there MUST be a better graphic for a physiotherapist.<\/p>\n

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A gaggle of swans!\u00a0 No, a cygnet of swans, right?\u00a0 Nope, that’s just a young swan.\u00a0 Apparently it’s either a bevy, herd, or bank of swans but in flight they’re called a wedge or flight of swans.\u00a0 The more you know…<\/p>\n

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I don’t know if this came out, but there’s a great half-moon there between the tree and street signs.\u00a0 My moon shots never take-off.<\/p>\n

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Auf Wiedersehen<\/span>, Berlin.<\/p>\n

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And one final note – I went full on kitschy Berlin tourist and bought a piece of the Berlin Wall.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

I’m a sucker… now where’s that snake oil?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have this lingering cold thing that doesn’t know if it wants to get worse or better.\u00a0 Instead, it’s just sorta… there.\u00a0 An annoyingly dry, scratchy throat with some cruddy drainage… a stuffy nose that’s not really stuffy so much as just… off.\u00a0 Ya know that NyQuil ad, the one that promises it’s “the nighttime, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}