Giant Robot Car Parking & Golden Anniversary.

This is really cool. Munich has installed an underground garage for a neighborhood, but it's computer/robot controlled. There's an animation from the construction company here. Pretty cool solution to some extreme population density issues there.

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Weather in Munich is cool and rainy, as Franz reports today. I told him it would be a welcome change from the ceaseless heat we're having here.

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The weekend brought my family down for the 50th anniversary of Chaz's Mom and Dad. He was catering and decorating for the event, and its consumed most of our weekends and free time for the past 3 months. There was gold throw-up everywhere in the house, and I had to taste test marsala sauce at every chance. We got up at 6am to start decorating the hall, and by noon it was pretty much done, and last minute running around occupied most of my time. At 4 we went to his parents' church for mass and a 'presentation' to the family. Charles' mom supposedly made quite a political statement by having me up on the altar with the family, but I think people were ready to go have cookies and coffee so it wasn't that big a deal. The soiree for which we decorated was well attended, and lasted from 6 to 9ish. By 10 most of the hall was cleaned up, and only a few family remained. At one point those of us that had started early in the morning began to have brain lock-ups. We couldn't decide who's house to go to, what things were going where, who the children belonged to, what day it was. Inertia and exhaustion settled in over us. Someone made a decision at one point, and we managed to get the hall cleared by 11, and the kids wedged in to vehicles to go somewhere. Charles and I wound up back home close to 11:45. His mother was delighted by it all, as were her guests, so as tiring as it was having an older 'bridezilla' running around trying to make it all perfect, our mission was accomplished.