Portugal, 2012

We have the tickets, now we wait for my passport.

Late April, I shall go visit Portugal. ;)

More news here, soon...

Important update - Graduation!

Some important event just happened on the immigration blog. Totally worth a link here.

An addition to the family.

No, no, no. Not that kind of addition.

A pet addition.

Harlie, our dog, is turning 5 years old next month.

In dog years, that is more than a lot.

So this time, we decided that the time for finding him a partner was over.

Without delay, our 8 week old cocker spaniel: press play and check it out. ;)

Note: We're still working on naming her.

Jumping Breaks / "Read more" links

It took me a while to notice Blogger had implemented a new feature called "jump break".

That allows me to split the posts in two parts I sometimes feel appropriate: the main part, and some details.

When that happens, you will see a "Read more" (or some similar one like, "Click for the rest", "Get the whole scoop"... I haven't decided yet.) link at the bottom of the posts, on all blogs.

Clicking that link will expand the post to its full content.

I hope this makes the reading experience better.

More about this here.

Happy new year!

Here we go again, about to celebrate another spin around the sun.
It is somewhat confusing to me, that we have selected to celebrate to go around in circles (or ellipses, for you perfectionists out there!), and end up where we started.

But so be it. Gives us another reason to get good friends together, reminisce the good old times, and wish everyone another set of 365 happy days.
Anyway, I wish all of them, and all after those to be great and always better than the ones before them.
Have a good life, year, day...!

Happy 2010!

Sports?

Since I was a kid, sports were never my thing. Some of my friends made fun of it, others tried to get me into it... it never was something I wanted to pay attention to.
I liked exercising to some extent, but it was hard to me, to this day, to understand the soccer obsession, the american football obsession, and all other sports related obsessions.

Today, while listening to one of the most intelligent men in our time, I understood that we shared something in our opinions of sports:

This video is an excerpt
from the 1992 documentary "Manufacturing Consent",
about Noam Chomsky.

And now, I care even less, if or who wins the World Cup, the whatever-championship, or the Olympics.
Waste of time? Not entirely.
But surely way down on my list of priorities.

Bertrand Russell once said:

"The whole problem with the world
is that fools and fanatics
are always so sure of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts."

Bertrand Russell

Religious Faith Challenger

New blog!
You can read it here.