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How long ...
does a road last? This is a good question. And I have an answer. With qualifications. Which, as my children will tell you, is normal ( Read more... ) -
Intuitively Obvious
Intuitively Obvious to the (Most) Casual Observer.
The 'most' is optional - I've heard it both ways and I prefer using most.
This is an engineer's way of saying that something needs no explanation.
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Strange Lights
On the way up to Chicago it was after dark as I was traveling through Indiana north of Indianapolis. Watching traffic and listening to an audio book CD*. When off to my right - the east - syncronized flashing lights caught my eye. Lights a distance above the ground - as best as I could tell in the dark. Lights that would be on the top of a ( Read more... ) -
Memories
While heading back to SC was going to listen to some audio book CDs. But while in the Chicago area searched the FM radio spectrum* and came across WLS. For those not from that area, it's an iconic radio station that's been around for many, many years - from the days of my youth. They played some 'rare'** oldies that I hadn't heard in a while.
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Fall Vacation - Wrap-up
Well, here's the rest of the story. We did see sprinkles on a number of days. And snow mixed in with them one day. The roofing went slower than anticipated because there was unseen damage that needed repair. And the slope was steeper than we'd worked with before - had to use safety boards and such to make sure we didn't get injured. All of ( Read more... ) -
How I Spent My Fall Vacation.
Like those essays that teachers made you write when you were back in school - How I Spent my Summer Vacation but done voluntarily about different season. Though, come to think of it, I can't remember ever having to write such an essay in school. Reports on summer reading books, yes. How I spent my summer vacation - no.
Anyway, taking a week off ( Read more... ) -
More translating
Sort'a. This happened in high school in German class. It's not really translation in the sense that you're doing it for someone else, but it fits in with the previous post. Sort'a.
The topic I forget. Idioms, maybe. The sentence was: Es ist vier uhr. In my head I was wondering why the teacher would say "I am 4 o'clock."
It took a bit to ( Read more... ) -
Translating whatever
Three stories - one recent, one several years old, and the last a great deal older.
Of course there has to be background. As some of you know, I speak more or less fluent Latvian. Since I learned it as a 'trimdinieks' (a Latvian living outside of Latvia) there are current idiomatic expressions that I am not familiar with. Which doesn't really ( Read more... ) -
Sheltered Life - Part 1
I've always lived a more or less sheltered life. More sheltered now - by choice. Not quite as sheltered when I was much younger, but I was by no means a "wild and crazy guy".
What got me thinking about this was attending the Pelion Peanut Party this year. I've been going the last few years - ever since my Better Half (got) volunteered to help ( Read more... )
