Keeping a hand in...
Mar. 24th, 2004 11:43 amWhile I wait for CVS to finish its checkout...
It's really annoying not having Lain. I hope the problem turns out to be fixable and I get her back next Friday (that's right, a week from Friday... grr!). I'm really tired of not having a useable LJ client and having to update via the web interface. There's so much in that laptop that I carry with me, that I'm now either chained to my desk at home or having to do with second-tier solutions like this one.
Doing pretty good otherwise. Got through lesson 9 of Japanese and starting on lesson 10 today. Doing two a week is really working out for me. I was kinda worried about what I was going to do when I finished the Level 1 course since I don't have 2 or 3 (and they're expensive, about $240 each), but I hit upon the answer: the local library has both Level 2 and Level 3, in CD format. Which begs the question: If I finish the Japanese courses this year, what should I study next? They have French, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian... Hmm, no Thai or Vietnamese. They have Korean, though.
Had Yamaarashi-chan over last night, like always. She seems to be doing very well with her eyes, and she and her sister were rambunctious while I made dinner-- tuna noodle casserole. When they were done, each had left a small pile of peas on their plate and eaten everything else. We played a couple of rounds of Go Fish and Crazy Eights, but by the end Kouryou-chan was bored with cards and they went back to something else. I also watched an episode of Diamond Dust Drops with them-- pretty ordinary as anime goes. At first, it looked hopeful, but the story was predictable and the animation less than stellar. Yamaarashi-chan's also learning to read at a ferocious speed, and I'm grateful for that. Kouryou-chan is getting there, too, although with two years separating them I don't expect her to be near Yamaarashi-chan yet. (On the other hand, Kouryou-chan already can cut her own food, a skill Yamaarashi-chan has not mastered.)
And I just hate it when I spend all day banging my head on a problem, get in the car, and the second I'm on the freeway the answer hits me. Grr...
It's really annoying not having Lain. I hope the problem turns out to be fixable and I get her back next Friday (that's right, a week from Friday... grr!). I'm really tired of not having a useable LJ client and having to update via the web interface. There's so much in that laptop that I carry with me, that I'm now either chained to my desk at home or having to do with second-tier solutions like this one.
Doing pretty good otherwise. Got through lesson 9 of Japanese and starting on lesson 10 today. Doing two a week is really working out for me. I was kinda worried about what I was going to do when I finished the Level 1 course since I don't have 2 or 3 (and they're expensive, about $240 each), but I hit upon the answer: the local library has both Level 2 and Level 3, in CD format. Which begs the question: If I finish the Japanese courses this year, what should I study next? They have French, Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian... Hmm, no Thai or Vietnamese. They have Korean, though.
Had Yamaarashi-chan over last night, like always. She seems to be doing very well with her eyes, and she and her sister were rambunctious while I made dinner-- tuna noodle casserole. When they were done, each had left a small pile of peas on their plate and eaten everything else. We played a couple of rounds of Go Fish and Crazy Eights, but by the end Kouryou-chan was bored with cards and they went back to something else. I also watched an episode of Diamond Dust Drops with them-- pretty ordinary as anime goes. At first, it looked hopeful, but the story was predictable and the animation less than stellar. Yamaarashi-chan's also learning to read at a ferocious speed, and I'm grateful for that. Kouryou-chan is getting there, too, although with two years separating them I don't expect her to be near Yamaarashi-chan yet. (On the other hand, Kouryou-chan already can cut her own food, a skill Yamaarashi-chan has not mastered.)
And I just hate it when I spend all day banging my head on a problem, get in the car, and the second I'm on the freeway the answer hits me. Grr...
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