Archive for March, 2007
some knitting
I. The sweater in progress. (Carefully cropped – photos of me look OK as long as you can’t see my eyes. Bags you could pack for a 3-week vacation.) Lessons learned: 1. Never knit a sweater in cheap yarn – it’s already fuzzing and pilling a bit, though this is also partially due to 2. [...]
not much, you?
Nothing terribly exciting going on at the moment; we have our regatta next week (April 7/8) so we’re concentrating on getting ready for that. Rudder is racing both days, a double on Saturday and a single on Sunday; I’m racing only in the double. (And I only have to race 4km instead of 7.5; I’m [...]
abused by my government, not by my school
They got me. So far, the comments from our immigration / financial advisors about the situation with my brokerage account are along the lines of, “Wow, we’ve never seen this before. Looks like someone’s misinterpreting the Patriot Act.” (I’m hoping the advisors will be able to tell me soon if I can claim a legal [...]
books, in compensation
It’s funny; it never feels like that bad a week if it’s not awful minute to minute, but it occurs to me that in the past week I had the (finding out about the) death of a grandmother-in-law, a doctor’s appointment of the intrusive kinds, rowing practices that for some reason left me very tired [...]
differences in doctoring
I really should write this entry, about the differences in visiting the doctor here vs. in the US, over at the travel blog site. However, it was a gynacological check-up type visit, and I don’t really care to parade details in front of assorted grandparents, coworkers and so on. I may post a redacted version [...]
arrrgggghhh
I have two semi-written posts, but I need to vent first. I’ve been spending the venting on the phone (at international rates!) and things are NOT going well. Sometimes living abroad sucks. First, I just found out Bank of America just closed my stock account. When I got around to changing the address on that [...]
random questions
1. If I’ve climbed 20 flights of stairs over the course of today (a max of 11 at one go) does that adequately compensate for skipping my workout this morning? 2. Does anyone else hear the news from Iraq and have an urge to start singing “Muktada al-Sadr banana fanana fo fadr….”? 3. It’s a [...]
welll…
I keep wanting to begin this entry, “Well, crap!” But it seems out of place, and maybe a little disrespectful. Rudder is the only person I know to have reached the age of 40 with four grandparents still alive. He did not make it a quarter of the way through his forty-first year able to [...]
never enough
We rowed yesterday, for the first evening row this spring and the first time in a boat together in a few weeks. I have a new nom de blog for my doubles partner: Roeiste, which would be a female rower in Dutch. (I think they usually just say roeier for either sex, though.) I thought [...]
carnage among the daffodils
Fortunately it seems to be mostly better now. Last week we had the warm temperatures and sunny skies that followed us home from England, and then grey moist Saturday with its breath of Spring. The daffodils were out, dancing in banners along each side of our road to work: a bed of bright yellow here, [...]