Words of wisdom

Had a nice chat with a drunken guy at the bus stop after work yesterday. There was an accident somewhere along the line, so the 17 bus never came. I walked down two stops to where another bus joins the line, hoping I hadn’t missed it (it and the one that wasn’t coming are staggered). [...]

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Couch update

I’m still working on reupholstering the couch. I’m making pretty good progress I think, considering I don’t exactly work on it that often. There are three sections to the back. One is finished, a perfect fit on the first try. Another was finished, until I realized that first of all, it was just a hair [...]

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Love is creating spreadsheets

While I wait for work to come in this morning, I thought I’d write about last week’s blogroll question (I’m behind already!): What do you eat when you’re alone? I like this question. Meals are almost always a compromise, aren’t they? Last night for example. We were out looking at cars (we’re thinking about replacing [...]

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semi-annual update

Time to post again.  Geez, time is just flying by, isn’t it.  I’ve been so caught up in planning for the wedding, gathering documents for my next visa application, and so one and so on, that I hadn’t even noticed it was the middle of April.  April!  Holy hell, it’s only three more months til [...]

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Eww…

I’d like to cast my vote for the most disgusting thing in the world. What do you do if your bathtub doesn’t drain fast enough, and you can see the previous tenant’s long hair caught just below the opening of the drain?  Of course, first you try to douse it with some draino, hoping it [...]

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Furniture!

Ahh, finally!  This weekend we brought all our furniture to the new apartment, after having painted it (the apt, not the furniture).  We’d stashed it at my in-laws place in Tirol for a few months.  Finally, no more air mattress!  Finally, a mattress on the floor (the bedframe didn’t survive the move)!  I never thought [...]

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