From the monthly archives:

November 2004

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!

November 25, 2004

Thanksgiving and Christmas are my favorite holidays. I wish I could be eating a nice big turkey dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy, homemade cranberry sauce, apple-chestnut stuffing, and delicious pumpkin pie a la mode today. I considered cooking a turkey on the weekend when Rainer is here, but I don’t think I am in [...]

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It’s Christmas time…

November 22, 2004

ebags.com rocks. We’re getting a purse for my aunt for X-mas and maybe one for Rainer’s niece. I can’t believe I never thought of visiting this site before. It’s supposed to snow tomorrow. It has been a surprisingly mild fall here in Rostock, last year we had snow in early October. Well, I guess summer [...]

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The Girly-Man Dollar

November 19, 2004

American Dollars to 1 EUR The US Dollar has reached a record low against the Euro. As you can see in the above graph from x-rates.com, the Euro is rising steadily against the US Dollar (same trend can be seen when the US Dollar is compared against the British pound, Japanese Yen, Canadian and Australian [...]

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Recently Viewed Movies

November 17, 2004

Scary Movie 3 – okay, if you keep your expectations low. Dawn of the Dead (remake) – this got panned by critics, but I thought it wasn’t that bad. Van Helsing – better than I thought it would be. Still, Anthony Hopkins was a cooler Van Helsing and Gary Oldman a cooler Dracula. Schultze gets [...]

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What are your political leanings?

November 16, 2004

Since I am in turmoil over my possible transition from Republican to Democrat, I decided to seek out some help in the shape of Internet Quizzes! According to the World’s Smallest Political Quiz on the Advocates for Self-Government Website, I am a Libertarian: LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate [...]

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I’m a loser baby… so why don’t you kill me?

November 14, 2004

Saturday night, I got to visit yet another German emergency room. Embarassingly, I was coming down some steps after exiting a restaurant (Kaminstube – not so good) and I missed the last step. I sprained my left ankled badly and hurt my back. I have just in the last hour been able to put weight [...]

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On ‘Moral Values,’ It’s Blue in a Landslide

November 12, 2004

Perhaps there’s hope… In a piece by Frank Rich in the New York Times, Rich states that, “it’s blue America, not red, that is inexorably winning the culture war.” Quotes and summaries of key points: Those whose “moral values” are invested in cultural heroes like the accused loofah fetishist Bill O’Reilly and the self-gratifying drug [...]

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