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A day was had
Apr. 19th, 2024 09:19 pmI don't talk about it much, but I still regularly have dreams about Arthur leaving me, some of which wake me up, although I'm not getting terror reactions from them anymore (no heart pounding etc). In Thursday morning's edition, my parents were at home discussing it, and my uncle walked in. All dead in my waking hours, nice to see them. So I was awake at 5 this morning, and spent some time trying to figure out the difference between hair and fur in some of the languages with which I have passing acquaintance. Or hair and other things. In French, the word for hair is one letter off from as the word for horses. [cheveux vs chevaux]. There's the possibility of messing up the spelling of hair vs horse in Spanish as well, [cabello vs caballo].
Thinking of French, I was reminded of the expression chevaux de frise. It is usually used to describe a defensive bunch of big sticks
It literally means Frisian horses, but in the pre-dawn light I was thinking it might as well mean frizzy hair.
I did try to sleep a little more after sorting out the hair problems.
Exciting events of the day:
The insulation is all done! The person in charge of the job admired the sturdiness of the house, and said it should last another hundred years. I won't be there that long. I am considering signing up to attend (online) an informational talk about short-term hosting of refugees in the guest room, but I don't think I'm ready for that. Would they be willing to test for Covid? To avoid cooking meat while in my house?
A car (black Mercedes) was being driven down the middle of the Minuteman bikeway this morning, straddling the lane divider line. I shouted obscenities. Most of the other path users just got out of the way and stared. After it had passed, my friend said that we should have photographed the license plate and reported the driver somehow, but it was too late.
Sticker # 3! It usually takes me several minutes to translate a sentence so I will not catch up by Monday's class, but better than nothing.
Have I mentioned that there are two major numbering systems in Korean, and you have to know which one to use when? I am not making a value judgment, just being very slow to learn more than twice as many words at a time of life that my rote memorization is at its worst. If you're stating the time, the hours are in one system and the minutes are in the other, as a fun (?) example. Now that I've said that, I don't know what to do about seconds. Hmm.
Thinking of French, I was reminded of the expression chevaux de frise. It is usually used to describe a defensive bunch of big sticks
It literally means Frisian horses, but in the pre-dawn light I was thinking it might as well mean frizzy hair.
I did try to sleep a little more after sorting out the hair problems.
Exciting events of the day:
The insulation is all done! The person in charge of the job admired the sturdiness of the house, and said it should last another hundred years. I won't be there that long. I am considering signing up to attend (online) an informational talk about short-term hosting of refugees in the guest room, but I don't think I'm ready for that. Would they be willing to test for Covid? To avoid cooking meat while in my house?
A car (black Mercedes) was being driven down the middle of the Minuteman bikeway this morning, straddling the lane divider line. I shouted obscenities. Most of the other path users just got out of the way and stared. After it had passed, my friend said that we should have photographed the license plate and reported the driver somehow, but it was too late.
Sticker # 3! It usually takes me several minutes to translate a sentence so I will not catch up by Monday's class, but better than nothing.
Have I mentioned that there are two major numbering systems in Korean, and you have to know which one to use when? I am not making a value judgment, just being very slow to learn more than twice as many words at a time of life that my rote memorization is at its worst. If you're stating the time, the hours are in one system and the minutes are in the other, as a fun (?) example. Now that I've said that, I don't know what to do about seconds. Hmm.
