Well, there's going to be a week, beginning at the end of October, when non-essential businesses don't work in hopes that one week of not working will reduce the infection rate. While I doubt that will be enough (and since people just will not wear masks properly, it seems), it sounds like more people than previously are getting vaccinated. So, ( Read more... )

I have some great ideas I'm working on, which I'll write about later today. For now, the menu.

( Joel's Menu )

Well, all is going along okay here. (On the subject of moving to Portugal) I have to admit that the prospect of dealing with immigration background checks again is not exciting. However, we still haven't even seen Portugal yet, so I'm putting the cart before the horse here. Other than that, we got the first of two booster shots. It was fine and ( Read more... )

All is well. We'll be getting our covid booster shots next week. Yay! I'm nervous about the hospital, because they made it sound like it would be different this time. However, I know it will be fine and am spending a lot of time telling myself that over and over. I hope it is making me less anxious. They have started giving flu shots here, and I'm ( Read more... )

Not much new. I continue to not think about where we are going. Progress is being made on the travel database, though. Chances are high that I will have something that functions well by the time we actually travel somewhere. I'm hoping that we will get our booster vaccination shots in just over a week. We'll see.

( Joel's Menu )

Ugh. I'm feeling emotionally unstable at the moment, which I hate. I suspect this is because of dieting combined with plans for moving. Since we don't actually need to leave right now and since we can't predict when we will need to leave or what immigration laws will be like when we do leave, I'm trying to spend less time fussing about where we ( Read more... )

All continues to go along here fairly smoothly. We're waiting to hear back from a lawyer from Croatia about how possible it would be for us to live there. We're trying not to worry too much, since we have other options too. However, Croatia does seem like it would be pretty nice. Anyway, other than that, we're enjoying the cooler weather. I'm ( Read more... )

I'm starting to work on putting immigration information into the database. For some reason, this is really fun for me. It doesn't really make sense, but there you go. Maybe it is because it provides concrete answers to questions, and I prefer knowing to not knowing. Maybe. Or maybe because the information could be useful in the future, especially ( Read more... )

Things are going along pretty well here. I am less psycho than sometimes, although I cut back on how much gelatin I was eating, and my body is now falling apart. So, more gelatin. Sadly, once again, we are leaning more towards leaving Russia at some point in the not incredibly distant future. A friend, who also lives here and who is also reluctant ( Read more... )

It is really hot here. Really hot. And there are people in idling vehicles outside, stinking everything up and making lots of noise, which makes it unpleasant to have the windows open. And it is unpleasant to have them closed. I am, needless to say, not the hugest fan of either climate change or people ( Read more... )