Today we’re heading out to Nürnberg to bid farewell to Blythe and Katie, both of whom are bound for greener pastures very soon. This marks the 7th & 8th expats I personally know who are moving on. And I keep wondering… who’s going to replace them?? Won’t a gap like this mess with [...]

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The embassy feels compelled to warn American citizens about possible violence hinging on the outcome of Wednesday’s football game:
U.S. Embassy Warden Message: 6/25 UEFA Championship Semi-Final Match
June 24, 2008 Warden Message:
On Wednesday evening, June 25, Germany and Turkey will meet in the semifinal round of the 2008 European Football Championship in Basel, Switzerland. [...]

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Just the other week I posted a not so nice review of George Carlin’s ‘Life Is Worth Losing’ cd. And now he’s dead. Could it have been precipitated by my scathing review? Not likely, but I suppose it’s possible.
So while everyone’s busy canonizing Carlin & Russert (I mean, is [...]

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The girls are officially out of school now. At first I was excited. No school means not having to stick to a schedule, and I’m all about that. But then the requests started rolling in… can I go here; can I have that; will you make me this; can I stay out till 1:00 a.m.; [...]

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I can put it off no longer, it’s time to plan our UK vacation. We’ll be spending 2 days each in the following places:
- Liverpool
- York
- Leeds
- London
- Caernarfon, Wales
- Edinburgh, Scotland
And 1 day each in:
- Chester
- Manchester
- The North Country
The London stuff we can do from memory. Jim’s family has never been, [...]

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It seems I’ve been here long enough to witness people go full cycle. Everywhere I turn someone is packing up and moving on, and it’s left me feeling… I don’t know, sad? Displaced? Envious?
I’m used to being the one moving on. Our time in Dresden is the longest we’ve stayed put [...]

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Escorting 15 1st graders to an all-day trip to the zoo may sound miserable, but it had its upside… I got to play with snakes!! Yippee!

It was awesome. And just in case you thought I was raising girly-girls who think things like snakes are ‘icky’, check out Syd…

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Part 1: Jacobed.
Over the past few weeks I’ve received on average 1.6 emails per day checking on me. This tells me two things: first, it’s time for an update. Second, people can be really great sometimes. That maybe blogs actually are a tiny bit of yourself that you wrap in swaddling cloth [...]

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