Author Archives: dichroic

Traveling in Germany is often disturbing, at least when you go look up the history of where you’ve been. I spent yesterday on a cruise down the Rhine; I’m downloading pictures and will do a writeup on the other blog. … Continue reading →

1. YouTube videos suddenly won’t play for me – I just get a black box where the video should be. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why and how to fix it? Other information: it was working as recently … Continue reading →

How odd. A Dutch friend of mine emailed “Shall we do something for fun the weekend of july 24/25?” That sounds good to me, except I find I have absolutely no idea of what “something fun” here is. I did … Continue reading →

Meme from Wordweaverlynn Ted books tea pretzels water (being in it, being on top of it, being next to large bodies of it, or having quantities of the heated variety poured over my head (bonus War for the Oaks misquote … Continue reading →

Arrrrrgh. Til now, the mosquito bites that began appearing with the hot weather have been annoying but not bad enough to keep me awake. Apparently the little bugger(s) was/were hungry tonight. I killed one, anyway. And here lies the problem … Continue reading →

Oh, hell Well, I was hoping it wouldn’t end this way. Work tomorrow may not be much fun. But someone told me Friday, “We’re good at switching very fast to ‘Oh well, at least we go second!’ ” I hope … Continue reading →

I know everyone does it, but I have to say I feel a little silly gasping or cheering out loud, when I’m sitting here alone in the room. But I can’t help it – scoreless definitely doesn’t mean boring! Wow … Continue reading →

Less than 10 minutes to go and still no score – there almost was a Dutch goal a second ago, but there was a flag on the play. I forgot to mention earlier that a lot of people in the … Continue reading →