The last topic given to me. Birthdays, to me, are primarily associated with travelling. This started because my Aged Parents were in fact very young parents when they had me, at the start of their 20s, and so had all the youthful earnestness to do it right. So when, say, the entire family was in Northern Germany celebrating an uncle's 60th birthday ( Read more... )

Other than Germany having an election last weekend, which more or less turned out as I expected it would, I was kept busy during the last three days by turning forty. (Today was the day of writing thank you notes for cards, presents, flowers etc. Somehow there are always more of these when one passes a decade...) The actual birthday was yesterday, ( Read more... )

Had a stressful couple of days while my personal year is coming to a close; tomorrow is my birthday. Right now, I’m in Berlin with the Aged Parents. Which means very little online time. But I did have the occasion to watch the new BSG, finally.

( Pegasus )

I normally don't do birthday posts, because I'm prone to forget some birthdays and then if I do others people might feel slighted, or so my paranoid mind says. However, I make an expection today. Because the lady in question is my oldest "internet" friend. We met when I was a wee Highlander fan, many many years ago, and then we met in person at a ( Read more... )