Ugh, an unintended souvenir I brought home seems to be a flu bug caught in the plane. Got the first symptoms Tuesday evening, which is exactly the right amount of days later. Have I mentioned how much I dislike flying? This is another reason: it's like Russian roulette. Winning the lottery is harder. Though to be honest, I've caught a few colds on ( Read more... )

Clearly, the OTW elections and discussions have touched on a sore point, as proved by the number of posts chiming in. I do have more Thoughts, but they're all ajumble in my head. As it's really hard to say things without risking stepping on toes-even more so in a foreign language-I think it's better not to try to say too much at this stage.

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The post below is a fairly direct translation of a blog post I wrote for work. I translated it as an exercise in talking in English about skills and methods I’ve only “lived” in Dutch ( Read more... )

It's a lovely, lovely autumn day today, and a good day to have off from work. Apparently, atmospheric conditions are thus that jet contrails don't fade very quickly, resulting in this:


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So, the first of the laundry is in the machine, the hiking boots have been cleaned and waxed, and groceries have been got. I'm making progress at settling back in after the holiday. There are still two dozen or so things on my To Do list for today and tomorrow though. And it's shocking How Many Updates the computer wants after 2.5 weeks of being ( Read more... )

* Lured there by
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Dude! Why do the best wanks* happen when I have holiday and limited online time? I was away during survey!fail, and there seems to be another that I missed, if I can't remember what it was. Cause clueless outsiders getting reamed corrected by fandom will never not be fun.

Anyway,
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I have finally managed to sort and upload my Spitsbergen and Oslo photos. It's only been three years, this August, after all....

Anyway, I found the perfect photo to iconize for picspam posts, or for my
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View from my window earlier this morning:


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It's... somewhat unsatisfactory to spend several thousands Euros, and then have nothing to show for it but a computer print-out.*

* I bought new furniture: dining table, sitting room table, new bed, and a side table-to-serve-as-dresser sorta thing.

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