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I don't care for celebratory days unless they are intended to draw attention upon an underrated theme. So, all's well with AIDS days, water days, books days, and gay days and women's day and whatever other minority day. But "mother", "father" - what do these "days" mean?
Please tell me who's supposed to be celebrated today: someone who's conceived ( ( Read more... )

The bridge on the national road connecting Piacenza and the opposite bank of the river Po collapsed at 12.20 - or so they say. Some wounded, but no victims, thanks goodness.

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I'm mad. MAD with anger and grief.
Last week we were told - by official sources- there was nothing worrying going on in Abruzzo, where increasing seismic phenomena were experienced since December.
The telly showed damaged buildings,  ceiling fragments weighing up to 2-3 pounds fallen inside classrooms  - but everybody knows - they said - that's an ( Read more... )

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So, I had my "beginning-of-the-week" in Paris, and I have still to come to terms with the concept.
Where the heck have the days from Wednesday to Saturday gone? O_O
I just remember a flurry of activity; typing and bickering with people, taking measurements and bickering with people, driving and bickering with people (at the phone in that case;) and ( Read more... )

Happy Saturday with the SSHG quiz and big thanks to mollyssister and morethansirius for their dedication to make us smile!

Besides, snow has stopped, sun is shining and - shush - seems like I'm really going but I won't say it out loud

Music: An die Freude, obviously :DDD
. . . Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.
La la la-la la lalala-la la lalala-la-la-la- ( Read more... )

All right, I give up. I surrender. Powers above, do whatever you choose.

Facts: hubby must attend some event in Paris on Tuesday; I am particularly worn out at the moment; he'll need help with his speech; hotel room rate is the same for one or two persons.

So, in an unusual bout of bravery, I decided I'd go with him and made reservations.
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Simply put:, my (very small) company has 4 notebooks suitable for nerdy purposes. Mine is usually NOT among those. But, it is the only one with Vista, and my dearest colleagues had a new program needing testing under Vista.
Therefore, my laptop was 'kindly' kidnapped ("don't worry, we won't mess with your settings nor with the registry" they said) ( Read more... )

Picked up from Shug and thought it was a good occasion to introduce myself.

And to try my very first LJ_cut down here. I apologize if it does not work!

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