Category: Real Life

  • Celebrating Final Red Cabbage Day

    While I don’t exactly live in a food truck, I live in a truck and I cook food. Here’s a random selection of the dishes that I happen to have photos of. And to finish it all off, below is the last picture of red cabbage that I’ll ever take in my life. It’s something […]

  • How to earn from excess electricity or computing power

    Because I live in a truck, in summer I have the interesting problem of excess (practically free) photovoltaics electricity. The same can happen in an off-grid home or a grid-connected home in a location with zero-export regulations. This is a small overview of the current options to earn from utilizing your unused or underused computing resources […]

  • Vanlife Updates (May / June 2017)

    Some pictures of living in the truck over the last month (2017-05-03 to 2017-06-08). #vanlife 🙂 (Click picture to see a larger version.)

  • Living in the forest and paying with trash

    Good news for my truck, it got MOT again (“TÜV”) so I can move around a bit. Used the opportunity for a nice little tour. Including: buying some parts for my “living space” in a hardware store; overnighting under 380 kV; a visit to a hydraulics workshop (leaving 230 EUR for three new hoses for […]

  • Freedom as in free trash

    So I just finished another little project: my new entrance ladder. Ok, let's say it's finished except for a layer of paint, as always. All paint jobs pile up for when I have no urgent needs and will start to care how things actually look 😛 This shows the truck's right side, with the door […]

  • Not so normal living conditions

    So this is my home now, a 4×4 ex-firefighter truck from 1976. Bit older photo, but from the outside it still looks like this. Except it has a licence plate, means it’s street legal now. It’s misssing some creative lettering though. I plan to write “UM” on it’s side in big black letters one day, […]

  • The end of “developing”

    I am back in Germany after four months in Nepal. First impression? Germany is well-organized, super quiet, and populated by zombies. The living dead, you know. (Oh and, Germany is so flat. Very strange. Why u not hilly?) It just does not make sense. If something like Germany is the endpoint of developing areas' development, […]