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Strikes, strikes, and more strikes

March 6, 2008

Germany is getting just as bad as France nowadays.  Here’s a message I received from the US Consulate (you too can get these messages by registering with the State Department).  In addition to what’s listed in the message, Deutsche Bahn (the train service) are planning to strike indefinitely starting on Monday.  So basically, if there [...]

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Manic Monday

August 6, 2007

This morning we had a visit from the Hebamme (midwife), who says that Oliver is “sehr gemütlich” (very laid-back) and unlike the last visit where Oliver drank heartily just to prove us wrong, he showed her his true drinking style and took 30 minutes to drink 60mL of formula while she poked and prodded him [...]

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

June 30, 2007

I really don’t have very much interesting to say today, but Rainer tells me that it’s been two days with no new blog entries and that’s just no good! The nesting thing seems to have been a false alarm. I spent the last few days sleeping (post-cleaning exhaustion, I think) and not having bad contractions [...]

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Tom Kha Gai and Son in Law Eggs

May 21, 2007

Saturday in our happy household was spent entertaining Rainer’s colleague Wolfram and his wife, Wibke. I was cooking up a storm and was rather pleased with how most of the dishes turned out (the beef and cauliflower was kind of bland – I need to modify this recipe). We started off with Tom Kha Gai, [...]

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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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UNICEF report on child well-being in rich countries

February 15, 2007

Yesterday, the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre released an illuminating report entitled “An Overview of Child Well-Being In Rich Countries.” Germany generally falls in the middle for all six measurements, but what is sad is that the USA and the UK are typically near the bottom of the lists, below poorer eastern European countries. The report [...]

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Today’s Word Is Procrastination

December 2, 2006

Here I sit, trying to avoid all the things that need to be done. I’m coming up on last-possible-minute-ness, so I suppose the procrastination will have to end soon. On Monday morning, possibly with the sunrise, the movers will arrive to pack up our sh… er…. stuff and haul it away. Now, it’s lovely that [...]

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