...today is my birthday. I almost forgot about it with all these days' fussing. ;)))

I'm sitting in a cafe, just returned from a bookstore. There was no one of my favorite detective authors, but I was obstinate in my intention to feel happy, so I bought a thick book by Rodger Zelazny, a DVD with a concert of Frank Sinatra, and a CD with the Irish ( Read more... )

mike
is
dead
mike is dead
dead is mike
my cat
my friend
my cat friend
is dead
i'm dead too
almost

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Our old guy Mike is feeling somewhat bad. These last several days, quite unlike his usual habits, he's not been wolfing down every portion of whiskas dropped into his bowl. Neither he tried to tear down the foiled packs of it stored in the kitchen. He also got a bit lazy in his grooming habits. And, what I don't like at all, last night he attacked ( Read more... )

"...проведена адаптация векторного параллельного алгоритма для решения задачи перетрассировки, получена программа транслятора форматов представления информации."
                                                            (фраза из студенческого реферата)


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That's the last piece of photos, illustrating the daily routine of our little army on active operation.

1) Good meal is what hiking is all about, right? We ate very well at the camp sites... well, except a couple of times when there was no water.  But the day is so short in late November that we had to use this light time to hike, and the ( Read more... )

(Some of images were taken by someone else, and I'm posting them without permission.)

I'm afraid this epic campaign cannot be boxed up into a small post, so it's going to be a 3-volumed edition. For a beginning, here's a brief outlook of our heroic hike troops.
(There's also another post here with a lot of photos from that hiking, you may want to ( Read more... )

На днях заняла у Дашки 100 рублей. Странное чувство. Кому-нибудь приходилось занимать деньги у своих же детей? ;))

Я тут вся по уши в работе, поэтому в интернете почти не бываю. Вчера принесла с собой в лабу куриную ногу на обед, три раза ее честно разогревала в м/волновке --и таки унесла домой несъеденную. Времени не было пообедать.

Will post a bunch of photos as soon as I find my camera cord. Устроила себе каникулы -- целую неделю бродила по Западному Кавказу со школьниками. Здорово. Как только откопаю шнур от фотоаппарата, запощу что-нибудь этакое... красивое.

It appears to me that yesterday morning I barely missed getting stolen from my own apartment. And, being absentminded as I am, I didn't even notice it!

I was having a late breakfast, about 9-30 am, when somebody started fumbling with a lock of a front door. I thought it was my husband, because he lives in a ceparate apartment several doors from ( Read more... )