Family Life

I received another lesson in Hungarian today. A standard greeting ends in “eshti”, which is the “And You” part of “How are you today?” “Fine. And you?” You have to be careful not to say “ashti”, which roughly means “Be nice to me (or else)”. The French guys told me that the French expression for [...]

I had a break today from the usual humdrum at work. Customers called for assistance on machines that I had nothing to do with. Nobody else in the department was available to help, not even the people who had originally created those machines, so it was up to me. There I was, having never seen [...]

I lost my camera eyecup in California over a week ago. I’ve been taking pictures without it ever since. This afternoon I finally got around to ordering a new one, and felt much better knowing it’s on its way and my camera will be complete again. Tonight I needed to clean my glasses. I used [...]

We woke up to a cold house this morning. The furnace stopped working during the night, and it was a chilly 13

So Gamemaster, I was thinking of passing through and wondered if you were doing anything on the weekend of February 9? I intend to teach some machinery classes close to Budapest the week before, and seeing as I’ll be in the neighbourhood, approximately, I thought I’d stop by. Let me know in the comments (or [...]