Slowly, slowly, things are returning to normal(ish) around the Nerd’s Eye View HQ. Over the last two days we’ve unpacked the kitchen, glory be, and now we have things like plates and saucepans and utensils. The electric range is a trial, I keep burning food in the old enamel pans, hello housewarming gift friends, how …
Today’s the day I go back to work. This is excellent news for the wallet. The last two months have been extremely hard on the bank account. It was an unfortunate coincidence that my last project wrapped just as I started to write checks for the new home. Naturally, I’m delighted to return to an …
Gun control.
We still don’t have a usable kitchen, that explains it, okay? Bakery Nouveau: The Best Treats, uncontested. They totally need to fix the interior though, it’s just wrong. Sugar Rush: Okay, it’s cozy in there and the coffee is good, but the treats we tried left us totally nonplussed. Capers: This is an oddball place, …
We do love our ex-neighbors, but we don’t tend to send them Martha Stewart mags as gifts. We’re on the record as being against superbikes, so it’s unlikely that we’ll be reading Cycle World. We’re against the wedding industrial complex, so Bride Magazine isn’t usually in the house. Husband, god love him, isn’t a supermodel …
So you think you wanna be an expat, eh? There’s a good conversation about the bloom coming off the rose of expat life over at Lost in Transit. Folks who haven’t been expats may gain insight, folks who have may have something to offer. And I have a new post there about our move. [tags]Lost …