Friday at last!

Well, it's official--the chilly is here. This morning was cold enough to nip at my ears and for me to feel it even through my heavy jacket. Which is quite a bit colder than it's been in these parts for some time. It was a lot less windy than I'd expected, though--hardly no wind at all, which made it only the subtle sort of cold that creeps up on you and makes you realize only after you're out in it that oh yeah, it's cold. Don't know how long the chilly will hang around, though.

In other news, I have another three-day weekend since Real is closing for President's Day. Woot! On the agenda: hanging out with mamishka so's she can get caught up on Lost and Battlestar Galactica; writing; cleaning the bathrooms (joy oh glee); more writing; seeing if I can squeeze in reading time to bask in the hotness of David in Heat Stroke; hopefully some musicgeeking; posting of a poll to see about arranging some jamming time; and writing!

But first I have to make it through the rest of today. Most of the company's attending a company meeting this morning, but I hung out with a fellow contractor for a while to try to help her get her machine set up. And we yakked, and it was fun. Every time I talk to her, though, I am reminded I need to work more on my German. (She's from Germany!) And I need to go back to that journal entry I wrote in German and compare silme711's corrections with what I posted and see if I can learn from 'em. And I need to look at the German poem hkortekamp gave me a while back as well.

Special note to ceallaighgirl: I don't know if you saw this post about my jamming group (and where to find our MP3s) or this post with mandolin and bouzouki info, so I thought I'd repost the links!

Special note to me_fein: Did you catch this post where I posted about finding the bird name info you'd asked me for?

Wednesday evening miles: 2.4
Thursday miles: 4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 709.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 251.9
Miles to Lothlórien: 212.1

German question!

Hey, Germans and German speakers on my Friends list, is it true that the language has 30 different kinds of words referring to kissing? This came up in conversation on the MurkMUSH today, and I was naturally curious, since this wasn't anything I'd known about the language before. Specifically the word 'Nachküssen' got mentioned, referring to 'all the other kisses that haven't been named', or, 'kisses making up for the kisses that have been omitted'. I know German makes compound nouns right and left, I just hadn't heard of this one...? Inquiring minds want to know!