Something that’s continually surprising to me, no matter how many times it happens, is that the local grocery store run out of stuff. A lot. The most recent incident involved beans. We wanted some red kidney beans for a meal, but they were out. Well, at least we could get our cheap-o OJ. Turn around […]
Well, besides the obvious German language thing, it appears that the content in Simpsons episodes differ as well. We’re watching The Boy Who Knew Too Much where Bart sees what really happens to a French waiter. All the regular episode is here, but there’s also a short scene added where Skinner and Willie give Lisa […]
We use the train a lot to get around Austria and into Germany. Most trains run about 140-160 kph. That’s about 87mph to 100mph. We were on a train the other day coming back from Munich that managed to get up to 195kph. That’s a whopping 121mph. That sounds fast, but there are faster trains. […]
Because of our late goings on last night, we weren’t exactly early risers this morning. I think I was up at 9 or so and Mary Jo was awake and wandering about at 10:30. We did a little Internet browsing to get ourselves fully awake. Once we had the coherence to actually create full sentences, […]
Christmas is a big deal around here. There are big Christmas markets, public concerts and events, and lots of Krampuses… Krampi… whatever. We did our little thing for Christmas too, in lieu of the normal “family stuff”. We started Christmas Eve day with a grand plan for some cookie makings. Mary Jo particularly loves making […]
After a little prodding via email from “CheeseMAN” and via YouTube commenting from j90gramz, we’ve finally gotten around to this! Several days ago I briefly mentioned a TA holiday party. Part of the party was a little gift exchange. Mary Jo ended up with a bag of cheese. The bag contained three cheeses that need […]
First, apologies for the obvious pun. It’s been a bit since we’ve updated, but not much has been going on. Last Friday we had a little Christmas party where be made cookies for/with the teaching assistants. It was a good time. There was even a little gift exchange. What I’m really excited about though is […]
Mary Jo is up late tonight doing lesson planning. I got bored. Really bored. Like, rreeeaallllllyyyy bored. So, instead of doing something productive, I made a video about an Xbox controller pooping. It’s only 8 seconds long, so there’s really no excuse not to watch it. Oh, and if anyone asks, it’s a very clever […]
We’ve been without power for about the last 4 hours. Fortunately, it’s time for bed, so we’ll just go to sleep! The really odd thing though is that it’s not the whole building and not even the whole floor. The hall light is on. So, that’s weird. Hopefully it’s something easily fixable, because we’re going […]
By now you’ve read Vienna (Day 1), right? Well, you better have! We started the morning trying to decide on breakfast. We eventually just went to the store and grabbed a few things to munch on while we walked. Since we had barely scratched the surface of the palace grounds, we headed back over there. […]