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Welcome to the 28th ride in the trailer, which will start at the Frankfurt Airport when the minute counter for my steering break from 14 to 15 jumps.
So that this is already recognized as a break part before I ... oh yes, unfortunately not with my main vehicle on the road, but with the small 20 sitz Sprinter with luggage rack, because he doesn't have a luggage space.
Because on the one hand, the Sprinter was actually only used for short distances, the whole time around that he is missing battery power, so we thought we'd send him on the route.
And on the other hand, the trailer has not run a longer route for a long time and to somehow avoid fixed braking and what not.
So, be live with me as I give the parking light in the corresponding slot.
Off-road, yes, that's how it should be.
Very, very nice.
Yes, I would now like to bring a right position to the last episode.
I don't want to use the word fact check now. Fact check is what Tobias Mieger and Ole always have in the leaf herring, if it's about right positions.
And of course, fact check had offered, because the right position came from Tobias Mieger.
And it was about the color bands that I ordered at Kaufland.de and he pointed me to a situation that I was not aware of, that Kaufland.de operates a marketplace similar to the other big companies do.
And that's why it's not at all said that I really bought these bands from Kaufland, but that they were only sold over this platform.
I am now inclined to believe that, because I have received the bill by email and they came from another company.
It's a bit of a shame, the bands should be in a post office right now, so that I can pick them up.
It's a bit of a shame that they weren't sent by Kaufland.de themselves, because I had such a nice joke, because it took a few days for them to be sent to the shipping company.
And my guess would have been that their internal warehouse for shipping is just as unclear as the layout of the shops and they don't find their own shit.
I can't bring that stupid saying now, so I won't do that either.
Otherwise, on Saturday we were in a round of four people in a restaurant in Strasbourg that has Ethiopian cuisine.
And we went to lunch. That was, as always, very delicious and also a bit funny, because the host of the restaurant is, I think, very well-acquainted with one of our people.
And he helps you with all kinds of things. And because I am now closer to him, who is closer to you, I have already come to hand, if it's about renovation work or whatever,
a rather easy friend of the house status. And we were pretty done with our food when she came to our table and said that if someone knew electricity based on us,
then the light would have fallen out of her toilet, nothing would be done.
So, well, we just looked. I wouldn't look at myself without any idea in the electrical area, because my father is a trained electrician and he explained to me very patiently.
And at least he didn't have to look at it. So we found out, in the ceiling, in a subwoofer box, a motion detector that detects when someone in the cabin stops there and then turns on the light.
So it was relatively quick to find out when we took out these motion detectors that he no longer had electricity.
So with the test screw, we found out that electricity comes in on one side, but doesn't go through. Even if you have constantly switched on these small motion detectors,
at the latest, then it should actually be like that. And he also had a slightly electrically blackened track somewhere, as if too much electricity had flown in once.
But he looked a little older from these motion detectors, so we thought, well, he's broken and in 5G minutes from the restaurant in the city center,
there is a small city center market, maybe they have a suitable spare part. They even walked over there, found the last installation motion detector they had there.
They had theoretically several models, but they were all sold out. And from the one that was not sold out, there was just one copy left.
Now we're back at the restaurant. So now the restaurant business was already in the break between lunch and dinner time.
They took out the fuse, adjusted the new motion detector and switched on the fuse. And nothing happened.
So no bang, click, short circuit or anything, nothing happened.
Not even if we used the small switch that the motion detector should be overrun and be permanent.
So the poor motion detector, they have such small switches on their way here, always turn on the motion detector, or never turn it on.
And in the case of the motion detector, you can still adjust the sensitivity, I think, so you can adjust several things, sensitivity and switch on and off and things like that.
He just didn't read any electricity, so to speak, like the others too. And we thought, well, maybe it's just a stupid coincidence, possibly a manufacturing error.
Who knows exactly. So we brought him back, in the best of our knowledge, and we didn't get our money back directly, but a purchase certificate.
But you always need something from the hardware store. They were also asked if we might have overloaded him, who only has a few hundred watts.
Now there are four or five LED lights hanging on it. Now I know how it is at Samra on the guest toilet here, on the customer toilet.
And I also know how little electricity LEDs consume. So I don't think there's more than 10, maximum 15 watts being pulled. And as I said, 300, 400, something like that, the motion detector.
So in the best of our knowledge, in the best of our knowledge, we said, no, no, there are a few LEDs hanging on it. And then he was taken back.
So they would have exchanged him, if it had been given to us. It just didn't exist. So we took a fan clamp instead.
So that we can practically put a permanent power supply where the motion detector is installed, as a transition solution, so that people at least have light on the toilet.
And also thought of a blind lid so that there is no hole with half-open cables against the guests up there.
Yes, well, back to the location. The fan clamp installed, blind lid on top and in happy anticipation of the fact that we have created a provisional room.
The fuse went on, the light went on, ran for one or two seconds, then it made a bang and the fuse was out again and one of the lamps smoked a little electrically.
No, that wasn't intended, I would say. We looked at it and found that there must have been water in there.
No idea if there was some guest toilet or how it got there. In any case, the lamp probably caused a short circuit, and the LED bulb that was in there, as I said, had this typical short circuit book.
And then of course it is clear that a motion detector that can only withstand a few hundred watts is stuck in the toilet.
Because this bathroom is equipped with a normal 16 ampere power supply, so about 3.6 - 3.7 kilowatts.
That it flies out at a time when the power consumption is already too high for the motion detector doesn't seem so surprising to me.
So we have now first of all dismantled the whole lamp as an emergency measure.
Of course the cables that were not properly insulated with a lamp and the whole thing covered and so on, leave the permanent power and now the light works again in Samra's guest toilet.
And when it comes to the costs, I'm not even sure if you shouldn't leave it like that.
Because this toilet is in principle in constant use during its opening hours.
Samra's place is very, very good. It has about 40 seats, maybe 35-40.
And it is usually fully booked every midday when it is open. So without reservation there is not much going on.
And in the evening it even makes two passes at each table.
So one is allowed to eat from 17.30 to 21.00 and the other from 21.30 to business hours.
And since there is a toilet cabin in the place for all these guests and is usually eaten with your fingers, almost every guest goes in there at least twice to wash their hands before and after eating.
And that together with the low electricity consumption of the LED, the fact that during the opening hours someone is constantly running around on it anyway.
And the fact that this moving mail cost over 40 euros, I almost believe that it makes no difference for you economically if you simply turn on and off the toilet light completely with the fuse box.
That there is permanent light during your opening hours, because the electricity saved during the opening hours should be sufficiently low.
But of course that is up to you. We have definitely offered further help if the hardware store then has moving mail again in the offer.
Then we are of course also happy to install one of these again.
But visits to Samra's place, if you already belong to the friends of the house, are always funny and do not necessarily just have to include a meal.
Yes, afterwards we went shopping in Strasbourg and then drove home with the tram on Sunday.
There I had a trip from the castle to Frankfurt again, which was relatively unspectacular.
Get ready for the morning quarter to eight, leave at eight o'clock, put people off, on the way back the coordinator at a station that was cheap for her to spend her free days with the family.
Put off and then in the early afternoon, after the evening.
However, yesterday I was a little bit muddy.
It almost felt like a slight cold in the approach, so that I actually after this Frankfurt trip did not have to lie down for an hour or so before I was ready for action again.
Today, however, it does not feel cold at all, so maybe it was just a little bit of mud.
Yes, this morning then a little bit earlier to start working, because the departure for seven o'clock in the Elsässische Geissbolzheim was requested.
It is a little south of Strasbourg, so under the premise that you do not want to arrive at the very last stop there at the meeting point, I then drove off at the bus garage at twenty past six.
However, I already put together the Sprinter and the tensioner yesterday and parked outside so that I am more or less ready for departure.
For the simple reason that I was on the road with my original bus yesterday and I would have had to drive it out again this morning to get the trailer out of the corner.
Because he is then on the way and then I thought it would be more reasonable to do the trailer work when I come back and the bus is still not on its place.
Then you save some short distances, empty runs with cold engines and from the working time it does not matter whether I do these five work minutes yesterday or today.
Hopefully the minutes will not matter and my boss will probably do the same.
So now, because I am now almost at the four-hour steering time, somehow choose a quiet parking lot on the A67, the 30 minutes still to go, which we still lack and then hopefully I can get through so quickly that I can then drive my mini-line, the basic ones.
Which always have to be driven into the village at 10 to 1. That should actually be enough without great stress and without great boredom.
So probably I will bring you home with the trailer tensioner, because it is not worth it at all to control the vehicle garage beforehand and to pull the tensioner apart.
And then I can still fill up in peace and then I can then enjoy the proper vehicle parking.
Yes, otherwise I personally have a little moment of joy about a tiny development in the podcast landscape.
I don't know, I don't really want to call it a podcast tip, because the interest in it should be very special and very local. And that is on the website of our city administration, i.e. kehl.de, where you can also find city news if there are any cultural events, any lockdowns, any special events, jubilee, construction projects, etc.
The city of Kehl has been doing about 140 episodes, I think once a week, a so-called info-cast.
I heard it once, didn't find it badly produced, so 4, 5, 6, 7 minutes, a short summary to hear what the city has done. And after I heard it once, I didn't perceive it as great because it was only playable on the website for a long time in such a layer.
So there was neither an RSS feed nor otherwise the possibility to find it in the podcatcher. And honestly, if I have to go to a website where I can read the same news in more detail and more figuratively, then I don't listen to the audio sitting on the computer.
So personally, podcasts is something for me that I actually perceive in my podcatcher. I don't want to open this box here without a feed, it's not a real podcast or something. I understand that you can believe it and that you can be of the opinion. I also understand that people listen to podcasts on other platforms.
Unfortunately, I don't take them for myself if they are not in my podcatcher. I have already subscribed to the audible podcast in the audible app as an audible customer, because I thought the topic sounded exciting.
I have never heard an episode of it, simply because I never get the idea to start the audible app when I want to listen to podcasts.
So when I want to listen to podcasts, I listen to my podcatcher and then start the audible when I want to listen to books. So that's not a real podcast, I don't get the idea.
If I want to play to the docu, I don't open the db-navigator. You know what I mean.
And that's why I didn't perceive this infocast very well. But I remembered that I wrote on twitter once, because of the rss feed. I would like to hear it in the podcatcher.
It said, yes, it's not on the top priority list, but it should be in work at some point.
And now I googled it again at the beginning of the year. I thought maybe they have implemented a good new year's proposal.
And in fact, a podgy page was set up with a feed that currently covers all the last four episodes.
I'm not sure if it's just so brand new and will expand week by week or if the city says, well, the last four episodes should be enough.
And then you can still hear about the website if it's important to you.
And as I saw it, the podgy page was set up with this setting, so not only a feed is available, but also the whole infocast is applied to the most important big platforms, where people can listen.
And I think it's a great thing, because I think it's great that the city also takes care of the city news in the audio format,
although it will really interest a few people regularly, because someone who doesn't live in the area or has ever lived or had a relationship with someone,
is interested in the first spark of the new forest kindergarten. I'm not sure.
And I think it's great that they're trying to make it available.
And I would have found it a shame if they didn't have alternative ways of playing available for a long time.
Because I do believe that within the number of people who are interested in the whole thing, I could imagine that now that there is this feed, the number of listeners will increase.
Anyway, I will now regularly have a podcatcher for a few minutes about the developments in the city, even if I should forget to look at the city's website for city reports.
I think that's good. I also think that Klaus Backhaus is back with a podcast.
He has reactivated his short break, even though he claims to be the most boring podcast in the world.
I dare to argue, because if you're interested in a personal podcast, then you can find a liking to it.
And if you're not interested in this podcast genre, then you won't hear in there anyway.
And Klaus has also proved in the Backhauscast that he can present the catalog descriptions of modern housewife prospects in an entertaining way.
So he can't be boring podcasts. I don't think that's physically possible for him.
My personal opinion. I definitely think it's nice that he's back on the start.
And we're back on Wednesday. Before I forget, thank you very much to Sascha, who confirmed my guess from the last episode that the thermal scanner in front of the tunnel was for protection against fire.
And not only that, he even faxed it to me. I thought that was great. Thank you very much.
I was very happy when he wrote me the Fritzbox in my email post that something came up.
So the proof, the number I mentioned, works. It can be used for love, hearings and feedback.
On Monday I think I started the flight from Frankfurt. I just left the airport and recorded the last time.
The rest of the day was unspectacular. In the afternoon a small line and in the evening a trip to a very good local in the area.
We have a few of them here and a small group of eight or nine people that I brought there and then back again at night.
The next day I had a longer taxi ride. That means it wasn't that long. It was 40 minutes, but since the gentleman went there for an ambulance operation, it was only supposed to take two hours, two and a half hours.
And when we didn't have that much going on, I could then stop up there and take him back with me.
And in the afternoon I learned something. I drove a little school tour that I drive very, very rarely and had as a passenger the colleague who normally drives it.
So that I could refresh my knowledge a bit. Can never hurt.
This morning, on the other hand, a new assistant colleague came who wanted to start with us and I showed him one of the lines that start in the morning.
So to speak, the one who starts in Kehl and then leads over the villages to Oberkirch. And I have to say, a nice guy, he has a very good impression.
He somehow made the driver's license two years ago, but never drove a bus.
That was, as Sobi told me, in the company he worked for.
He was going really bad during the pandemic, the first big wave.
They let a lot of people go, including him. And it didn't really look like they were going to get back on their feet.
And then he just continued to train, continued to train, made the bus license.
And when he was done with it, his old company put him back in.
That's why his driver's license was basically useless for a while.
But when I heard which driving school he was at, I was very optimistic.
Because they are actually really well known for their excellent education.
So from the driving school, really finished bus drivers fall out.
So not only people who have the license, but they also pay attention to it.
Here a bit of interaction with the passengers and what else is there to it.
And I was really impressed how great he did it.
So for the first time he drove a bus in wildness. Everything worked out great.
I was in a fast-paced driving school during his time in Bavaria when I made a bus license.
Where they somehow brought me so far in two and a half weeks that I could pass the exam in the second run.
And I was definitely not as well-off back then, directly after getting a license as he is today.
A friendly guy, makes the impression that he has understood the course of the line well.
Of course he also had a plan. Now we were on the road with my 30th seat for the first time.
First a little bit of a start. And tomorrow I'll drive with him again.
He drives the line in a large bus, which also drives this line standardly in the morning.
And then I'll see how much of the line he kept in mind.
Because the day after tomorrow, if he feels fit, he should drive the tour alone.
I also believe that he will make it.
There are people who are enough to drive with them two or three times.
On the other hand, we already had colleagues who only stayed with us for a few weeks.
I drove with them for two or three weeks.
And in the end it still didn't work out.
The people are just different.
What makes him optimistic is that he really makes the impression that he wants to do well.
And that's always a very good prerequisite.
As you understand, he wants to earn something from us.
He still works at his old job, but in shift.
Every second week he has a shift and can take over this student tour in the morning, if necessary.
Or help out on weekends.
So what we've been missing for some time now, just a flexible amplifier.
That could actually be good for the colleague.
I was shopping after the line.
I actually went to a local key service to get him a key for the tour.
And now the key for the key box, my private key content and my letter box key are at home.
They are pronounced similar in size and form.
On the day it's no problem, because the letter box key is much older and is relatively matte and dark and
the other one shines really nice.
But I often come to work in the dark.
And that's always a bit like putting a USB stick blindly in the USB-A socket.
So you can poke around the key with the key ring.
And now I can touch it in the dark.
I could have done that earlier, but it's not that long now.
That I have a letter box key that resembles the key box key.
I've been living at my current address for seven and a half years.
So you don't have to overdo it with the hurry.
And then we'll see what else brings this week.
This trip should end here.
As always, I say thank you for being with us.
The exit in the direction of right.
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