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The highlight of today’s university stay was once again a cup of coffee with Detlef SternAfter my lecture, I met up with my family in a café in Heilbronn and slowly began to accept the fact that I was going to be a grandfather.

I spent the rest of the day doing a bit of snipping in the garden, and now there are a few more bushes left. Next, I'll have to figure out how and where to best dispose of the green waste.

It would be worth considering catching a few free-roaming brewers and then motivating them to mow the meadows—what a lot you'd do for the good of your beer.

It is also exciting that the Pope made the recent visit of JD Vance did not survive. And now Donald Trump travel to Rome — Catholics certainly won’t need purgatory after that.

Soon John Marsia publish a new book with the working title "A Federal Constitution for the United States of Europe. Why and How?" I was already able to read it as a sample and comment on it, which led to a very interesting email exchange. We are both convinced Europeans and avowed federalists, but that doesn't prevent us from having fundamental differences in our understanding and thus also in the further details of a possible federal state.

This could also explain why, to this day, the European federalists have not the one There is no solution to how we can save our one world. It's even more fascinating to observe how my opinion of Europe was the majority opinion of all federalists in 1947—so I'm not promoting anything new (!)—but today it represents more of a minority in our association.

In any case, John Marsia's new book is worth reading and if you want to go into more detail, you can read my book "Europe is for everyone!"Compare with it. Especially through the differences in the two books, one can recognize the breadth of our movement and thus form one's own opinion.

And you can then do the whole thing at the 9. Hertenstein Talks Preferably with John Marsia and also discuss with me.

Finally, I would like to thank the Earth Day 2025 With gardening and a little trash picking, I was able to live up to his motto "Get involved for our planet | Together for a sustainable future! | Because YOU make the difference!"

Play

This Easter weekend, I was able to participate in several games, winning a long evening of Settlers of Catan. The following day, however, I only managed a respectable second place. I also played a few rounds of Play Nine, Rummikub, and, for me, a completely new game, Wizard, which reminded me a bit of Pinochle.

And if you prefer watching YouTube videos, you can celebrate its 20th anniversary tomorrow. Even though I enjoy using YouTube myself, I'll be driving the meseno bus through the northern district tomorrow.

My contribution to the anniversary is the above Sebastian Schaffer-Cover of a Bruno Mars Songs from 2010. He sings this one together with Philipp Rhine.

To celebrate tomorrow — what are twenty years (?) — I am attaching a video of Bobby Ray Simmons that this together with Bruno Mars published.

Back-end

Today, I had some urgent cleanup work to do, not only in the backend of this blog, but also with the software I use. Less is usually more, so I certainly won't be without some software.

The blog's backend should be running more or less normally by now, but it's messed up my tablet and smartphone layouts. We'll see when I can address this issue.

But I got a pretty good rating on Trustpilot and as a result, because I'm now motivated again, I decided not to reduce the entire layout to the bare essentials.

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