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How do my views match up with the candidates?

January 27, 2008

86% John Edwards 83% Dennis Kucinich 82% Mike Gravel 82% Barack Obama 81% Hillary Clinton 80% Chris Dodd 75% Joe Biden 72% Bill Richardson 41% Rudy Giuliani 35% John McCain 24% Mike Huckabee 24% Tom Tancredo 23% Mitt Romney 13% Ron Paul 13% Fred Thompson 2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz Interesting… and in case you’re [...]

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Do not EVER fly Iberia Airlines

January 17, 2008

So here it is, the full story with all the gritty details. From cancelled flights to unannounced delays, from death marches through the Madrid airport to sleeping in moldy hotel rooms. Chapter 1: The cancelled flight Our tale begins in the fall, shortly after booking four tickets with Iberia Airlines to visit my family in [...]

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Home at last!

January 7, 2008

We FINALLY made it back after our own little Homer-worthy epic (I’ll write a nice long post about that soon, but let me sum it up in one sentence: DO NOT EVER, EVER FLY WITH IBERIA).  First, I want to remind folks about the Expat Dinner this coming Sunday.  My blog is having some issues.  It stopped [...]

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Regensburg Expat Dinner – January 13

December 14, 2007

Next Regensburg expat and friends dinner will be Sunday, January 13th.  Since everyone seemed happy with the time and place last time, let’s stick with 5pm at Meiers Restaurant at Stadtamhof 15.  Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested.  Leave a comment if you’ll be there and I’ll reserve a table. ———— Meier is [...]

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Oliver update

December 3, 2007

Well, he’s almost four and a half months old now, and he’s started on solids.  The crazy little guy was trying to grab fistfuls of mama and papa food and stuff them in his mouth, so I went ahead and started him on rice cereal.  I thought it would be hard, with him spitting out [...]

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Thanksgiving, Expat style

November 25, 2007

Our Thanksgiving party was a roaring success.  We had 24 guests, pretty evenly split between German speakers and English speakers.  Charlie was a hit with the kids and surprisingly well-behaved.  I’m not worried at all anymore about him interacting with Oliver when Oliver’s a little older. There were several expat bloggers in attendance, all of [...]

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A controversial address?

November 17, 2007

So, it seems I’ve stirred things up a tiny bit in the expat blogger world (well, I caused two blog posts to be written, if that can be considered stirring things up).  I, mostly unknowingly, picked a controversial address for my blog, namely, AMIexpat.  Martina wonders why I would pick this as an address, while [...]

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