Gas

17 Jul 2011
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Ooohhh… back to the kitchen posts! Once you have managed to actually locate all the ingredients for a single dish, you have to cook it. First, the stove top. Mine is made of pot metal and has five burners, but only 1.5 of them work at all. Neither of the two operational burners works all [...]

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iPad2

15 Jul 2011
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Hello! I was just about to blog something, but …. oooh! Words with Friends! And I got distracted by the …. wow! Rosetta Stone to go! Anyway, I … iBooks! iBooks, where have you been all my life! Then there was this… have you seen this app store?! What is all this stuff?! Nevermind, forget [...]

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Motivation

27 Jun 2011
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This summer we don’t have many friends in town, but we’ve been really busy anyway. It is the summer of Math. Dolly struggles in math and considers it a fate worse than Chinese water torture. After four years of us trying to work with her on math facts, she is still falling behind. She can’t [...]

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Accessories

25 Jun 2011
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In this house we can’t just watch a movie. We have to sit and make accessories while we watch. After Percy Jackson the house was full of giant Poseidon forks, made of paper & fortified by plastic drinking straws. We have wands, capes, swords, shields, bows & arrows, spaceships, military bases, a house-sized re-creation of [...]

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Borders

23 Jun 2011
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See this big wall? This used to be the big Borders at the Seeb City Center, the only real English bookstore in town. (Sob!)

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