A look back and addition

I looked back at previous entries and noticed the one on Houses. We actually bought out of our lease as part of buying a house. I got every single thing in my deal-breakers list, and all but the fireplace and wet bar on the “I’d Like” list. Basically. In exchange for a separate/extra family room [...]

Three languages? Trilingual. Two? Bilingual. One? American.

There’s an old joke that asks what someone who can speak x number of languages is called, and goes through (depending on how pedantic the teller is) the various prefixes down through bilingual for someone who speaks two languages. The final question is, of course, what one would call someone who can only speak a [...]

Of Coffee and Tea

I’ve got a fairly wide variety of caffeinated beverages I like. Well, okay, it can basically be narrowed to three. Coffee, tea, and Pepsi. Dr Pepper and Coke will do in a pinch (usually occurring at a burger joint that doesn’t serve Pepsi products or Barq’s root beer).

Ooh. And G33k B33r, but that’s in [...]