Duesseldorf Airport apparently doesn’t get it. Read Christiane’s In Pantoffeln zum Gepäckband (in German). A translation is below. Dear organizational geniuses of Duesseldorf airport: Imagine an airport where passengers are required give up their shoes at check in, and wear slippers to their gates. Additionally imagine, that the slippers are one size fits all, everyone [...]
Feb 252006
Feb 252006
Here they are:
Feb 242006
Three years ago, my hair was below the shoulders. Two years ago, after I lost 40 pounds, I got it cut in a chin length bob. Last month I got it cut in a kind of bushy mid-short cut that I couldn’t really get used to. So tonight, I went and got it cut very, [...]
Feb 222006
This town has got to get another department store. Once again, I went to Dillard’s, to pick up some tights. Once again, my blood pressure started going up at the sight of the insulting feel-good signs outside the double glass doors: DILLARD’S CARES ABOUT CUSTOMER SERVICE If you have any difficulty in our store because [...]
Feb 152006
Have the blog links in the sidebar (under my del.icio.us) outlived their usefulness? I originally put links there so that I would have a handy list of the blogs I like to read. Now I use an RSS reader. Would anybody care if I removed them?
Feb 112006
I’ve managed to figure out that I can subscribe to my del.icio.us bookmarks as an RSS feed. What I can’t figure out is whether I can use this to do my daily blog reading. Let’s say I’ve got a bunch of bookmarks tagged “blog”. What I want is not the list of blog links in [...]
Feb 112006
My 95 year old cognitively intact mother in law has started down the slippery slope. Three hip fractures in the last year and a half. Moved out of her house into assisted living across the country. Two days ago she fell trying to open the heavy fire door in her facility’s laundry room, and broke [...]
Feb 112006
I have seriously got to get a handle on this compulsion I seem to have to put everything edible I see into my mouth. I even think the right thing first – do I need this? Am I hungry right now? Will I enjoy this? Is it worth it? And the answer is no, and [...]
Feb 102006
Via Ruth, Disabled, and Shut Out at the Gym: Health clubs are among the last public places in the United States to become broadly accessible to the physically disabled, say advocates for people who are blind, deaf or in wheelchairs. Some clubs lack the ramps and wide doors that they are required to provide “? [...]
Feb 042006
Christiane hat mir ein Stöckchen zugeworfen: Vier Jobs in meinem Leben: Kassiererin Privatlehrerin Büroleiterin Programmiererin Vier Filme, die ich immer wieder sehen kann: Go Now Der Name der Rose Viel Lärm um nichts Philadelphia Story Vier Orte, an denen ich gelebt habe: San Francisco, CA Lagos, Nigeria Seoul, Korea Williamsburg, VA Vier TV-Serien, die ich [...]
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