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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=995511788030758213#

wish it had subtitles so everyone could enjoy it.

excellent. as if my stress levels haven't been elevated enough lately...

#5 reports, after an overnight stay with my grandparents, that my grandfather's driving is now BAD!

he doesn't drive very far, but she said his braking was always too late, and his acceleration is no longer smooth.

i will have to brainstorm a solution for them. coming up with a good solution will then facilitate their own decision to go into an assisted living facility. i feel that this is a decision that one of THEM must put on the table. it has been discussed in the past as an option for the future, but the future has come, i think.

and now i need to go look for the aspirin, as i have a bad headache.

i will be studying today. chapter 5 test in the nachalo textbook.

room is still a mess, but all my books are no longer in stacks on the floor. that is progress, right?

there will be occasional breaks for chores, like laundry and setting up the printer again(since the kids really don't have a need for it after all).

room is STILL a mess.

hmm.

again, every time i try to straighten up my room it ends up even worse.

poverty smells like burning matches. it tastes like halfway melted chocolate ice cream. and it sounds like all the noises from the neighbor, which you usually can't hear because of the refrigerator.and washer and tv drowning it all out.

should be turned back on by tonight though. seems the ex decided to pay some child support for a change.

Notes augmented

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Product tweaks and bug kill

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3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
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New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

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Photos of the week

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You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

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another day, another russian language class.

it was german club day. so i brought out my harry potter in german book. we all took turns reading a little out loud for everyone.

afterwards the girl who is the club president and a native speaking exchange student told me i spoke with hardly any accent at all.
that was nice of her to say that. it's a shame my lack of vocabulary hinders me so. but i am working on it.


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today was another 8 minute german film class presentation.

afterwards the guys were wanting to know how i always end up with such good photographs in the presentations. i said wiki commons. but it takes a long time to come up with a good set that works together. over 6 hours of searching on this one.

a lot of the photos weren't under the first set of topics i searched on wikipedia. i had to follow LOTS of tangents. and got very lucky.

my verbal skills in german are so bad i HAVE to count on the "a picture is worth a thousand words" cliche.

so far so good. and as classes start to wind up towards the end of semester, i find that others are every bit as disgruntled as i am in the way the upper level german classes are set up. and why are we so disgruntled? because none of us wants easy "A"s. we want to fucking LEARN!

we want more CONVERSATIONS and fewer PRESENTATIONS! after all, that is what this class was supposed to be about: improving our conversation skills.


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