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Expat life in Germany

October 6, 2007

A recent post on whether Germans hate Americans by B. over at Eurotrippen got me thinking about all the different experiences I’ve had here in Germany. First, I don’t think Germans in general hate Americans in general, but there are always going to be some people who hate some other people, whether rationally or irrationally. [...]

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Closer to home than I thought

April 28, 2007

We’ve been back for a few days now, and I will post about our vacation soon, but upon returning, I heard some news that, while not really bad (well, in some sense), has shaken me up a bit. So there is this guy Luke that I went to high school with. We rode the bus [...]

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Thoughts on Va Tech and gun control

April 18, 2007

According to a Reuters FactBox on Guns and gun ownership in the US, there are approximately 640 million guns in the world, 200 million, or 1/3, of which are in the United States, in 34% of households. I’d originally planned a long tirade on creating tougher gun control laws. I had graphs in here, statistics [...]

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Back in the land of the Laaberer

March 2, 2007

Our mini-tour is over and after several adventures, we finally made it safely home this morning. Monday began with a trip to the hospital to get our second trimester ultrasound, where we ended up waiting two hours for our appointment because some problem was found with the woman that was seen before us. Hopefully things [...]

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Fee Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman

September 27, 2006

As nobody seems all that into the category thingy, I’m not going to bother keeping up with it and I will eventually get around to removing them. For lack of anything interesting going on, I invite you to peruse my StatCounter visitor log with me. Somehow I’ve managed to get up to an average of [...]

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Happy New Years

January 4, 2005

First, my thoughts go out to all those affected by the tsunami. Luckily, my family in Thailand is safe and sound. Second, I resolve to make more effort to make timely entries in my blog. My back is much improved. I still have some pain, but it’s definitely bearable now. It turns out I had [...]

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