Not necessarily a bad Week, but a very full Week.

I feel like I should be be talking about the fantasy convention at the local castle, or the trip to the local Kirmes (fun fair), Julian's first week in Kindergarten, or the other trip to the Kirmes.

But the Week is not yet over, and another momentous event is rearing its head.


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In accordance with the prophecy and year-long planning, we attended the big Lower Rhenian trade fair last weekend. There, although I may be one of the biggest Luddites of my generation, I was finally convinced of the usefulness of tablets. I know I know, everyone uses them but I just didn't see the point so far. But now I finally acquired one.

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... man, I go on vacation for a week and the world goes completely mad. I expected some of it (but not this much!) and thus stayed away from the news in my happy little Alpine valley, but coming back and catching up isn't fun either when there's such a clusterfuck to catch up with. Boo ( Read more... )

Everybody's probably getting tired of the sudden picspam deluge but now that I started it, I'm gonna finish, muahahah. (And then relapse into my usual radio silence, possibly punctuated by the occasional word count? We will see ( Read more... )

"Not everybody is permitted to go to Brest", as the learned old pirate in the Asterix comics sagely observes. As it happened, we actually made it to Brest - whereas other places of interest, such as Quimper, Concarneau, Pont-Aven or the previously mentioned Douarnenez, dropped off the agenda. On the whole, it felt to me as if we weren't doing ( Read more... )

a.k.a. the catch-up saga continueth ( Read more... )

It's the plushypaws' birthday! Fëanáro and Mr. Darcy, masters of snuggling, hunters of mice, secret openers of doors, night-time complainers, are turning ten today. Ten years, my goodness. Time flies ( Read more... )

(Naked because it isn't bearing any leaves. Not naked in any other sense ( Read more... )

... not that anyone would notice when I'm gone for a while, since I'm only active every other week anyway. But hi! I was on vacation ( Read more... )

that almost turned shittier in its last week ( Read more... )