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Hallo und Willkommen! Ich habe etwas Deutsch gelernt und ich habe einen Rat für dich. (Hello and welcome! I have learned some German and I have some advice for you.)
One of the ways that servalan and I keep up with languages we’re learning is to use them while playing cards. So here are some card-playing terms that I've come across. (OK, so it's mainly a ( Read more... ) -
5146 days of Ziggy
After dealing with cancer for one month (plus however long before we knew about it) my best bud and proxy child died today after a rapid decline in health since dinnertime last night.
He is survived by his two kitty parents, who mourn his departure.
Born c. 2002
Adopted 27 June 2006
Died 29 July 2020.
Love you, Ziggy. 5146 days weren’t really -
Where, oh where, has xyon gone?
A long time ago I feel like I had a personal goal to write something here every day ( Read more... ) -
Amusing, on some level.
So I was merging onto the freeway today, and as I started to do so I realized I had a car in my blind spot. They slowed to let me in and I did the friendly "thank you" wave... and got no response. Very shortly thereafter we were at a dead stop. And very shortly thereafter that she turned on her headlights. Er, turned them off? Hazards, maybe? It ( Read more... ) -
Woo! Paid off a loan!
Paid off one (or, depending on how you want to count, 4) of my student loans.
What to do with all this "extra" cash now? Hmm... I suppose... pay off the others. -
This was a triumph...
It's still a good song, so still a better thing to say than "Still Alive ( Read more... ) -
Thwarted Geneology
So a while back I did a trial on Ancestry.com. The OneWorldTree project told me that I was a 17th great-grandchild of Geoffrey Chaucer. Except there was an odd blank entry.
servalan recently came into knowledge of family she didn't know she had, so she signed up for a trial to see if there was any information for her (there wasn't, so far). But I ( Read more... ) -
Still remember
I walked past my old campus mailbox yesterday, and tried the first combination that came to my head (okay... the second, the first involved a K and the biggest entry is J).
Today it resolved differently in my head, and I got it on the first try.
So, yeah. Hasn't changed in at least 11 years. -
Very much time to admit I'm not finishing that series...
So when I got back from the honeymoon I was all pumped to chronicle everything so that I could go back and read it a year later (and at 5 years, etc..) But really, it was taking so much time to write down that the fun details got lost. And then I was going to have servalan help me go over facts so I could finish... but that didn't happen ( Read more... ) -
3.5 Weeks: Part 4: Dublin to Belfast
Last time on 3.5 Weeks
Our foolish protagonists had to be ready for their bus out of Dublin by 6:30am local time, so they got up ridiculously early, crossed the river, and found the meeting place.
Dublin, Ireland to Belfast, Northern Ireland - 29 May 2010
We got to the old stone church with about 8 minutes to spare. When we went over to the ( Read more... )