Here in the future, it takes only 12 days to transfer one's DSL to a new address down the road.

And, for the first time in rather longer than that, I'm not spending my evening on packing, unpacking, cleaning, installing towel racks, etc.....

Time enough for that tomorrow!

Okay, it's official: everyone I know is melting down around me. I just want to turn into a puddle, but whom do I get to melt down around, hm?

And no, this is so not just about you, whoever you are!

“Mommy, I have a story to tell you about school, and it’s embarrassing. M and I are spending a lot of time together at school. Today we were sitting on the carpet and he leaned over and kissed my knee. That’s embarrassing! Some kids kiss on the lips at school. That’s gross! They should only do that when they have a playdate!” “Hm. Do you ( Read more... )

I was contemplating my dreary life, and wondering what everyone else I know has to complain about. I know that a lot of people, possibly the vast majority of the living human population would envy my life without question. But I don't compare myself to them. I look at my friends and acquaintances, nearly all of whom have one or both of the ( Read more... )

This day was one of my favorites. J had wanted to go to the Deutsches Museum, but since it was the first really rainy day, all of München had the same idea. After inspecting the line, J said, "Let’s go to the zoo." So we went to Münchner Tierpark Hellabrunn, and had a wonderful time ( Read more... )

This day started out sunny, then got rainy for the rest of the week. We began our day at Schloss Nymphenburg, a Baroque palace with a huge backyard. We didn’t go inside, but headed out back, enjoying another quiet urban park with temperate-zone foliage and many waterfowl. The statuary at the foot of the big pool was getting cleaned--the contrast ( Read more... )

Day Five

More walking and more rain. We went to the Viktualienmarkt, where the produce was laid out in beautifully orderly arrangements.


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[Yes, I'm posting about the days out of order.]

This day was a bit dreary--overcast and rainy, and even downright chilly by evening. We headed to the Deutcshes Museum, and though the line was shorter than yesterday, it still took us a good hour to get in the door. (No doubt relatedly, there was a long line at the Imbiss for lunch, and at the ( Read more... )

Our hotel comes with breakfast, so in the morning I feasted on bread, cheese, red and yellow bell pepper, a butter-cheese spread, Nusspli (better than Nutella!), assorted Konfitüre, yogurt, fruit, and coffee. We then continued the tour of J’s haunts and other cool things. We started at Olympiapark, where the pool is now for public swimming. We ( Read more... )

Our trip from home to the hotel in München was 20 hours, door-to-door. Things went smoothly enough, with generalist delivering us to SFO, and the sfo3lhr leg was remarkably tolerable, largely because we were able to sit together (gomijacogeo slept against the window) and I got to watch 500 channels of movies and TV (using a two-handed remote with the worst human ( Read more... )