Eastern Orthodox Easter Sunday


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This morning I chose to wake up at 3:00 to stand outside for a little over an hour so a priest could dump some water on me. Why? Because it’s Orthodox Easter today and we had to get our food blessed. So we went here: I did this last year and it makes me wonder […]

April 15, 2012

Broken Glasses


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I’ve decided there’s something wrong with American vision correction. I discovered this today while I had the easiest eye exam of my life and bought the cheapest glasses of my life, in Ukraine. While I was vacationing in Spain, I mysteriously broke my glasses while I was sleeping. I took them off when I returned […]

April 13, 2012

Tech Tips – PDFSAM


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From time to time, while I’m preparing for a lesson, I come across a PDF with things I’d like to use for class. However, the problem is that the PDF is ten pages long and I only need a page or two out of it. I certainly could just print the thing and use only […]

April 13, 2012

Spainish Photos


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I was gone for two weeks because it’s Spring Break. Get off my back already. I took a trip with a couple friends to Spain. Eight days split between Barcelona, Seville, and Granada. Eight days a week is expensive. But I enjoyed it, for the most part. Instead of rewriting what I already wrote in […]

April 12, 2012

Deciphering Government Documents


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I’ve been MIA for the past few weeks, but I’ll get to that later today or later this week. Right now, I want to tell you how much I hate sifting through government documents. Okay, hate might be too strong of a word but finding the exact information I need and then interpreting the wording […]

April 10, 2012