Catching up

Yeah, so I fixed it, what've I forgotten to tell you?
I guess we'll start with yesterday's tour.
The Altes Rathaus has been in use forever. There was an "everlasting imperial assembly" that met there until the 19th century, and most of the stuff there was, naturally, theirs. The torture chamber was, well, a torture chamber. The 5 degrees, the screen-wall for the judges/nobles, and all that Jazz. Those of you interested in that sort of thing probably know all about it already. Those that don't, well, don't. Read a book.
The jail-cells were actually quite nice by medieval standards. They had privvies (via a hole in the ground) and people were rarely kept in them long. Regensburg in general seems to have had only a moderately active judicial branch. There certainly wasn't an inquisition here, anyway. No witch trials, either.
I forgot most of the tour between then and now, though, so I'm not sure how much help I can be. But the pics are nice, and will probably evoke a little commentary, once I get them up (tomorrow, mayhaps?).
As you've heard, I've been fighting what I think I'm going to call the German Uber-virus (I can't do the umlaut in html, but rest assured, it's there). The uber-virus got me pretty angry yesterday, what with it's mad-cloning and general un-niceness, so Tiff decided I needed an evening walk before I escorted my laptop (uber-virus and all) out a third story window. We meandered our way along the usual route, past Don Juan and away from the bus stop where we usually start our mornings. We found ourselves walking along the line of the old roman wall that once encircled Castra Regina, the Roman fortress built here in the 5th century. We'd been shown the one surviving gate on our walking tour, but a modern street corner said something about it as well. I wanted to find out what.
Lucky for us, a pair of english-speaking gentlemen were discussing this same thing. One was a fairly tall Bavarian, an upper-year college student by the look of it. Maybe a grad student. Anyway, he was the man with the guidebook. He was explaining things to a thin, blonde man who was about my height and maybe 10 years older. I worked up the nerve to ask the guide what was written on a plaque on the wall, and he explained that it just marked that this wall was the wall of Castra Regina. He then offered to let Tiff and I tag along on his tour. Naturally, we did so.
The guide's name was Bayer, and he's part of the University's international student organization. Since that's us, he was quite thrilled to have met us. We're probably going to get together with them again sometime, since they seem to meet every thursday. I haven't emailed him yet, I need to remember to soon.
Anyway, we followed them along the way, found out that the city built a bus stop over part of the German wall, and moved the main gate into the history museum. We get to see it in a few weeks.
So that was our random event for the day. Things have been fairly quiet other than that. Tiff discovered that the turntable in my room does still work, and we listened to some of the records in my apartment (beatles 67-70). Class is class, I'm adapting to it and stuffing my head w/more German than I can handle. The Tin Drum is still insane, but you'll get an extended rant on that when humanities starts week-after-next.
We had pasta with marinara sauce for dinner, and I had dumplings and mushrooms for lunch. Let me clarify that. GERMAN dumplings. Definitely not the things in our chicken-n-dumplins. German dumplings are much more... German. Thick, heavy, wheaty, like everything else here seems to be. Good stuff.
The pasta marinara was quite tasty too. Naturally, since Tiff cooked it.
I'm cooking pancakes tomorrow morning, then I think it's cereal and sandwiches until monday.
Self-feeding has proven exciting. W/o Tiff, I think it'd just be cereal. I can't afford the Raman here, how sad is that? It's like .80 Euro for 1 little packet! Expensive Raman, how bizarre.
So, yeah, pics coming some time. Jared's got to email me my ID to sign on to the network, I forgot it. Once I get that, you'll at least get my first 300. The others aren't labelled yet, but you'll get them soon. And, once again, don't freak out when random words on all the posts turn blue. I'm hotlinking as much as possible to pics, so ya'll can see these things I keep failing to describe. Clear as mud? You'll see soon enough.