American in Spain

The driver’s license saga continues…
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The accelerated motion of my favorite star.
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I took the theory test for getting a driver’s license this morning.
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A couple gems from the photo vault take us back to May 2004.
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I didn’t do anything interesting this weekend. I’ve still got the tail end of my cold from the previous weekend, and I’ve been studying for my driver’s test on Wednesday.
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Yesterday, I was legally allowed to drive a car in Spain. Today, I am not. Why?
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Several times we have seen wine casks in stores and thought, “Man, that would look cool in our dining room!” But we’ve never bought one, because knew that Grandpa Ramón had one in his attic that he would give us. Well, last weekend, we finally got it from him.
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It’s a slow blogging week. We went to Marga’s folks for the weekend and I came down with a cold. From one day to the next, I went from perfectly fine to bedridden. The first time I visited them I did the same thing, as well as the first year I went to Extremadura with them. They must think I have a very weak immune system.

So anyway, I’ve got a Flickr post for ya…
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You don’t have to be a professional technology futurist to see that we are quickly approaching the existence of a pocket-sized device that is a camera, mp3 player, cell phone, PDA, and video game player. I’ve seen this as obvious for several years now. But what I couldn’t figure out is what the device would look like. When you see it, it’s so forehead-slappingly obvious.
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Last night I tuned in to a live webcast of the Transit of Mercury. It was kind of neat in a “I’ve never seen that planet live before” kind of way. Luckily for you, the videos at the latter link above are timelapsed.
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