Still here.
It is crunch time on my courses right now. Plus. I am playing the popular game, "What will next year's budget be?". So go read this outstanding article by James Fallows instead.
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Recent Reading
While I was back in the land of the free and the home of the stupid and overweight, I had a chance to stumble into Barnes and Noble. This was ostensibly for the purpose of purchasing a study guide for...
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Just kill me now…..
Once again I have to apologize for the lack of posting. The S.O. and I went on a marvelous trip to Austria. And now we are back. And work got even more suckier in the interval. So, pix to follow-and...
View ArticleThe darkness that always lurks beneath the surface.
I wanted to write a quick not about the tragic loss of Robin Williams. His death will most probably be ruled a suicide. And I expect ( and in some of the worst corners of the internet-we are already...
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Can’t believe I missed it.
Yesterday was Women's Equality Day. And I totally forgot about it. I'm so depressed. After all, there are some hard facts of life: And while you are at it-get me a beer: Ok Honey? ?
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I am sorry it’s been a long time between posts. I was on travel to the US, partly for business and partly to see my son. The business days tended to be long and involved and when I got back to the...
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Tadaima!
That is what you say in Japanese when you come home. Hopefully a loving specimen of Japanese womanhood greets you with a beer and a cheery, "O kaeri nasai" when you do. We spent the last week at my...
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Sorry for the lack of posting. I have been enjoying my time here in Japan and reminiscing about how much fun it was. I really have missed being here. Germany is ok, but I really thought I would be...
View ArticleStill here, you greasy bastards.
Two weeks without posting is obscene. I should be doing better and I resolve to do better. However in my defense, things have been busy, I've been depressed, and I've been in a funk. A real funk-and...
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Thank goodness it is a new month. Last month was at the same time, marvelous and deeply depressing. On the marvelous front, the return to Japan was without a doubt the highlight of my year. Returning...
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Pumpkin Fest
In Ludwigsburg, they are running a Pumpkin Fest. In German the word for Pumpkin is Kurbis(with an umlaut). It's held in the garden of the palace in Ludwigsburg. Probably most amazing-besides the...
View ArticleYou only see the “Y” in the road-you don’t see the end of it.
The S.O. has had to work all this weekend, and I have been on call for my job. Basically its a payment up front for the both of us-for we will be in Austria for her birthday at the end of the month....
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A rare sunny day
Two weeks ago the sun actually saw fit to make an appearance here. The S.O. and I decided to take advantage of it and go walking through the woods behind our house and to the nearby town of...
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Election season is here!
It's August and Germany is having parliamentary elections this year. The election to the 18th German Bundestag will be held on 22 September 2013. As a result the campaign posters started cropping up...
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And the election kicks into full swing.
I am seeing more and more posters on the roads these days-from more than just the usual suspects: Of course our friends, the Pirate Party are still out in force: It translates to: "Imagine you were...
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Triberg
A couple of weeks back the S.O. and I drove to the Black Forest and vistied Germany's highest waterfall in Triberg. Its a beautiful-if somewhat too touristy place. There are a variety of hiking trails...
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Wahlzeit
In English, election time-which was the headline of a special edition of Das Bild newspaper yesterday -which was delivered free to our house. All indicators show that Merkel is on cruise control to a...
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Christmas Market
It's been two weeks since I have been back-and I have been busy. Spent the first week of this month in Colorado Springs on yet a another working trip that will not be adequately rewarded. Its like a...
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Sayonara 2014
And don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. As years go, 2014 was not really a good one for me. I won't be sorry to see it go. It started living under the burden of a poorly thought out...
View ArticleThe Green Life
The S.O. works for a German company. She in the last year was moved up to a position where she works enough hours to have to pay German taxes-and receive German benefits, particularly German health...
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