tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152361112011-04-21T20:22:57.558-07:00Miscellaneous thoughts and mishaps of an alien female trying to survive the strange customs displayed by the indigenous population of the US.beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18085005599944471909noreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15236111.post-1164595093270882592006-11-26T18:37:00.000-08:002006-11-26T18:38:59.026-08:00

When I got up this morning at 8.30am there were some flurries, most of them thawed during the day though... But now it is really snowing like crazy! Robi did his honey-do today and put up the lights outside and I started the decorating frenzy indoors:-)

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My astronomicly inclined hubby told me yesterday (better late than never) that the dwarf planet formerly knows as "Xena" was officially named in September 2006 for the Greek goddess of chaos and strife - Eris. Even more interesting, the sattelite orbiting it, formerly known as "Gabrielle" was renamed in Dysnomia, in Greek mythology the daughter of Eris. Dysnomia is the demon spirit of Lawlessness

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It is official, I must already live in the mirror universe as the delivery person arrived 30 minutes early. Could one be more proud? Yes, when it is properly framed:-) Life is good.

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And we have a winner:-) Hubby put down 3 absentee bids, we watched yesterday's auction online and there was some careful rejoicing when we found out that the first one we bid on was sold to an absentee bidder for the amount we were willing to pay. Could have been us, could have been somebody else. But now it is official - the Mirror Universe Door Plaque, made for the doors on the "Mirror

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My life is rated R!Your life is rated R!What is your life rated? (MPAA Scale)Take Other Caffeine Nebula QuizzesI am from Europe after all:-)

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I am quite ecstatic about the whole Archimedes manuscript research project: http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/They will have a live internet broadcast on Friday August 4th at 4pm ET, I cannot wait for that! http://www.exploratorium.edu/archimedes/index.htmlIt is soooooooo cool that centuries after the original text of a bunch of Archimedes's works plus some assorted other ancient texts will

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Religious freedom is once again in danger. Here we have a particularly sad example of a soldier who died fighting for freedom as the president sees it and is denied to be remembered as the person he was. As I am neither a registered voter nor a citizen there is not much that I can do besides spreading the word... Here is another take on the issue from Witchvox: http://www.witchvox.com/wren/

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Yesterday evening I finally went to my first open circle at the ATC in Index, WA. As I had posted some questions about it on a local board I met with someone from my area who had been there before. So I did not show up all alone plus I had a guide to not get lost on the way and I could not whimp out I had a really good time, everybody was very friendly and the circle itself was quite an

beahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18085005599944471909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15236111.post-1151341827517549322006-06-26T10:05:00.000-07:002006-06-26T10:18:15.190-07:00

Very strange, this seems to be a very old map from the early 1800s or so. Where is Antarctica? I have so been there, funnily enough before I have even set foot on 50% of the other continents. Well, there is proof in this blog;-) Plus, everybody can click on a map, getting to those places is a different story... and then it is over way too quickly and all that remains are memories and pictures.

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Not bad for somebody who came here in 2001... Hey, I know people who barely made it out of their homestate:-)

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My dear hubby has reached a milestone in his career as he is 10 years with Microsoft. So we were invited to celebrate this event at a hotel in downtown Seattle. It was pretty nice in my humble opinion, good service, we did not have to pay for parking which is huge, live band and so on and so forth.We of course had to end up sitting on a table with someone who seemed to be rather burned out from

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Yesterday was almost like birthday and xmas in one, hubby came home with the Xbox Live adapter:-))) Needless to say that I got the long awaited horse armour when all was set up, isn't it shiny? When I was trying to take the screen shot we were attacked by a mounain lion - mind you in Anvil, at the Gold Coast! The body is in the right corner, bastard...I also got myself a nice mages tower in the

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Well, yesterday was a milestone day for me. Why? First of all it was the anniversary of my first chat with my secret boyfriend who is now my husband. Secoundly, I have achieved level 16 in Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and was the proud ownder of a horse. There I was, riding along when we were attacked by a Minotaur who killed the horse. And as I idiot had not saved for quite a while plus the horse

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I am so happy, as of today at noon I am at level 3 and also have achieved associate status in the mages guild. Now I really need to get cured from that nasty disease that I got from that sewer rat that bit me and I am good to go:-)

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What have I been up to lately? Well, as I had ankle surgery on 2/27/06 I am pretty much sitting on my behind. At least I am not watching daytime telly:-) Robert was so kind as to buy us an Xbox 360, so I have been playing "Fable" and "Fable - The Lost Chapters" for about 4 weeks until I ran out of options there. I really liked it and I am looking forward to a sequel but now I found a new drug -

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It has now been more than a week since we returned from this absolutly incredibe journey and still the words to describe this extraordinary experience won't flow easily. The only thing I can think of is: "When will we go there again???" Please send checks to us:-)Imagine wall-to-wall icebergs, hot and cold running penguins, smelling elephant seals, barfing passengers, zodiac rides with built in

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No picture to start with today:-)The trip of a lifetime - started planning it in March 05. A couple of days in Buenos Aires and then down south to Ushuaia, Tierra de Fuego so spend 13 days on hopefully not so rough seas. Don't even get me started on the trouble I had with various airlines regarding changes of schedule after booking the flights. I really like to travel the world and it is all good

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It is the season of shopping 'till we're dropping. As most of my family does not live on the same continent as I do I do most of my holiday shopping online on one of the sites that also giftwrap and include messages. Beeing the Browncoat I am I decided to give the gift of the "Firefly" DVD set:-)I sent 2 to folks in the UK where the set is priced at £17.97 what equals $31.17, not a bad price as I

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The day is finally here - Serenity is now in movie theatres in the USA and I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooexcited:-) Opened up the local newspaper and was greeted by Jayne and a quite good review of the movie, that already made my day. Got my tickets to the 7.20pm show at a local multiplex, curse the sudden but inevitable betrayal by fandango's prices but I don't want to

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This is me holding a dulcimer. Finding one was part of a challenge on the official Serenity movie discussion board at www.serenitymovie.com and I was stunned to discover that one of the items for the treasure hunt was collecting dust in our guest bedroom:-) The deeper meaning is to collects credits one can redeem for movie merchandise and it is also fun. One of the other recent challenges there

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This is an issue that is rather longish, therefore I will not write down the whole story in one part. The picture above shows my favorite grave located in the Hauptfriedhof (Main Cemetery) of my hometown, my beloved grandmother used to take me there for a walk quite often. Now here it is, Part 1:After I was born in the late 1960s my parents decided to raise me in the christian belief system. They

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Ok, here I am, right now suffering from writer's block. Guess I am not the only one;-)Anyway, it took me ages to do my profile and I have yet to find out how to add a picture to the whole thing. As I am not so much the admin on our computer I have to wait for master programmer to come home... Ha! I can add pics to the blog, how cunning is that? Ok, now I have a topic :FIREFLY or better, my

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