Not much going on around here. I start doing things again on Tuesday. It’s been a really lazy few weeks. We went to the gym a lot, played some video games, and read. We didn’t go anywhere, even though it probably would have been a nice opportunity. Will got a haircut the other day; he […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Simpsons 2
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 […]
Random Factoid
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. […]
New Year’s Trip
The Christmas markets were replaced right before New Year’s Eve with little booths selling fireworks, and various pigs and mushrooms. Pigs and mushrooms are lucky in German-speaking cultures for reasons I don’t understand. We had plans to meet our friend Gretchen in Munich on New Years Eve, so I got her some lucky pigs. They’re […]