There is a kind of irony in having this particular week end with my birthday. Nothing slams home one's own mortality like learning three people you knew are passed on-and then waking up to realize that you are 55 years old. Irony may not be dead, but a good number
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Umfall
Is the German word for "accident". Which is what we had last weekend while on the way into Garmisch Partenkirchen. One mile from our hotel to be exact. Dealing with this and work is why I haven't posted in the last few days. After a pretty drive through southern Germany,
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The day we get on the plane and I begin the journey to once again take my rightful place among the ranks of American Expats. I think we are ready-although the S.O. is just two steps above basket case level right about now. The S.O. does not deal with change
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Today we went to see Keio-san, probably the only Japanese running a Japanese restaurant in Shopping Mall.( All the rest are run by Koreans). A farewell dinner of sorts-I think after the arduous task of packing and moving, and seeing the net result of all the useless china she has
Continue readingThe countdown continues……
To the day of the great escape from Shopping Mall USA. The day I have dreamed about, longed for, thought would never come, schemed and lobbied for, and despaired about-may actually finally be going to happen. While its not taking me back to Asia-it is taking away from Shopping Mall
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Ticking down to liberation day. A countdown made more difficult, because the S.O picked Friday to get in a minor fender bender ( in the BMW no less!), which yours truly is now having to solve and get fixed. One of these days Alice……. One of these days.
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Jaime Escalante: You only see the turn, you don’t see the road ahead.(From the movie-Stand and Deliver). That quote is racing around my head these last few days, repeatedly. I am remembering the graphically the scene in the movie where Escalante and one of his students are at a “Y”
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Well, the march of time continues to rush forward. I have to give my company a summary of my course of action tomorrow-so that they can do the things they need to do. Like my immediate coughing prognosis, the course I have decided upon looks cautiously optimistic, but still very
Continue readingBad to worse.
The doctor saw me last Thursday. And I saw her. ( I have now formally abandoned my previous doctor-for reasons I will soon explain). The S.O. dragged me to her doctor-after three days where I was not getting better, just coughing and coughing-so hard I ended up on the floor,
Continue readingGoing too far
It has been noted by some-that I may have gone too far in my anger against our evil members of Congress. That is probably a legitimate beef. I am very angry about the debt ceiling debate. The GOP’s position is completely unreasonable. They are more concerned about appeasing a group
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