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where are our boxes?
just got a message from a friend. The guy that was supposed to send out our boxes from Moscow to the US has been in the hospital for the past two weeks. He was recently diagnosed with diabetes.
made it to North Carolina
The next time we get on a plane, September 6th, we will be on our way to Belize!! Counting down the days!
puppies!!
Sharon's dog Diamond Girl had her litter last night...
Durango, Colorado
We are enjoying some down time here in CO. We are staying in the home of a gal who was also a missionary in Russia for several years. Her home is peaceful, yet filled with life.
Wind Farms in Western Kansas
As we were driving to Hays, Kansas on Friday we saw these wind farms on the way. How exciting to see this type of energy being tapped in to out in Western Kansas
customs...
We just heard news yesterday that our belongings have finally been released from customs in Moscow and should be getting shipped out to us soon. It will be interesting to see what is in our boxes and what may have gotten "lost" in the process

The Beet Goes On

The Beet Has Gone On
I've moved up in the world to my own domain at www.thebeetgoeson.net.
Out With the Old?
Thanks to Author Julia for suggesting the title of today's blog entry. I swear, Moscow was handing out some heavy, angry energy on my last few days there. I sliced the back of my heel on a friend's stairs.
Parting Glances
I Dunno If You're Gonna Want to Read This
It's just more of me whining about My Bad Day.You might want to navigate away from this page now.Okay.
Time for Some Comic Relief
I have a statistics counting site that tells me where my readers come from. It has lead me to some interesting places.An entry on my Bratislava blog became the subject of discussion on some political forum when they got to talking about how The Spouse and I were voting for each other on Hot or Not.
EU 998
Here's a tip for traveling with pets to the EU.You need a form. EU 998.

isoglossia -- pending reconstruction

Isoglossia is dead, long live isoglossia.com!
That’s it. We’re pulling the plug on isoglossia. Okay, not really pulling the plug.
Is this thing on?
Yeah, don’t get too excited. Last night I started fooling around again under the hood of this thing and found that with a minimal amount of fooling around I could finally restore the old Slovenicentric theme to this blog. This does not make it any less out of date, but it does make it slightly [.
Reconstruction
Okay, so I spoke too soon regarding the Wordpress upgrade, as is visually apparent to any regular visitor. ‘Failed’ should read ‘managed’, ‘a’ should be ‘every’, and change ‘more’ to ‘never’. Enjoy isoglossia’s personality-free default theme while it lasts.
Another 24 hours
With apologies to those who follow our Twitter feed, and/or the whole damn Book Of The Face thing, here’s a well-belated digest of our drive back down from Poland to Bulgaria, more or less, as it appeared, more or less, in stuff you’ve already seen, more or less. We made the Bulgarian border around midmorning and [..
24 hours door-to-door
Summer is here. The segue from work to vacation was intensely busy, irritating, complicated, and exhausting, capped off with a frantic drive from Sofia to Toruń. Magda did 95% of the driving, leaving me to dick around with a small camera in the front seat during the times I wasn’t sleeping (badly, but still).
We?ll always have Twitter: week of 2009-06-14
Potty training update — peepee potty:peepee pants ratio roughly 12:1. Poopoo potty remains a total shutout. God damn it all.

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isoglossia -- pending reconstruction

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