Yet another journal entry swallowed by the black hole that is my computer. I was at the dentist yesterday, finally got up the courage to make an appointment. Ever since I had my first cavity and the Austrian dentist filling it without anesthetic (costs extra and you have to know to ask for it pretty damn quick before that drill is already in your ( Read more... )

I am fed up with my eyeliner pencil. The flipping thing needs to be sharpened fairly regularly, otherwise I look like I'm headed to some kind of heavy metal concert and not to work. But the "lead" is kinda sticky, and it coats the inside of the pencil sharpener. Result: the next time you go to sharpen the dang thing, the tip sticks to the inside of ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of moving my blog over to Wordpress. I would like to set this thing up like kind of a website of my own, but Livejournal doesn't really have that many features in its free version, at least not as far as I can tell.

My ten-year high school reunion would be the weekend after next (I think). Presumably, anyway, I haven't gotten any ( Read more... )

OK, now for my third attempt to write this post without Word crashing. The two programs we have to have open in order to translate (Word and Translator's Workbench) do not always jive, so crashes are pretty common. They tend to come in waves, strangely enough. No crashes for weeks and then a crash every half an hour for before another hiatus. Who ( Read more... )

The blogroll subject of the week is "How far have you traveled for food". Unfortunately, I don't have any spectacular story of intercontinental journeys for tacos. I guess the farthest I've traveled would be clear across Vienna, on foot, for a hot dog (I'm using the term hotdog for all the myriad kinds of sausages sold at Austrian hotdog stands).

I ( Read more... )

 Not too much going on at work today. We're slipping into the slow summer months. There are just a few weeks of school left before the end of the year, and then half the country boards up their windows until the end of August. Because everyone gets at least 5 weeks of paid vacation per year, people tend to take longish vacations away from home ( ( Read more... )

Haven't posted much recently, but we had a barrage of visitors and then I was sick. Just a cold, but it was the cold from hell (TM). Still is, in fact. It's been a week and I don't feel 100% well yet, but I can't justify staying at home, you know? I did take two days off from work last Wednesday and Thursday, for the first time ever. I've actually ( Read more... )

My favorite ever ad was one I think for Polaroid. I thought of it when I read about Polaroid discontinuing their instant picture cameras.

The camera pans down a gate to a park reading "San Francisco Park". You see these two old fogeys playing Scrabble in the park. The board is about half full as one puts down "QUIXOTIC" across a triple word score ( Read more... )

  We did it!

Stefan and I finished the half marathon a hair under our target time of 2:30.

It was quite an experience, that's for sure. The day started early: we got up around 6am to get ready and get down to the city. The race was set to start at 8:30 and we had to stop by the Brucknerhaus concert hall, which is where everything was organized ( Read more... )

Here's something simple yet delicious, which we like to eat as an alternative to salad ( Read more... )