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Portugal, last day: November 30th

While the day didn’t really count as a “proper” one for the trip, there still was a few things to write about. For starters, we had to fill up the car before returning it, which none of us had done before. This ended up being very easy, as the previous night I’d checked and found out that the gas station chain where we’d get a discount with was directly on the way to the airport. We got there…

Portugal, day 8: November 29th

Because we had to drive back to Lisbon later on in the day, the onus was on us to get as much done as we could doing things in the Algarve doing things. We got up early, to find that our Guy was up and prepared a nice little spread for us in the kitchen. Having some toast (but no tea) and fruit was a quintessential English breakfast, but it gave us enough carbs to at least tackle the…

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Portugal, day 7: November 28th

This was the second of three travel days on the trip, and this time we’d be flying down to the very south of the country to experience the warmer climes. We could have technically taken the train, but doing so would’ve costed us a valuable seven or so hours, so flying less than 90 minutes was the option of choice. Our flight wasn’t until the early afternoon, meaning we had plenty of time to kill…

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Portugal, day 6: November 27th

Today was the day I was looking forward to arguably the most on this trip: spending a day going through the Douro Valley and sampling wine! I’m by no means a wine drinker, but getting a chance to try the famous Portuguese wines straight from the source was an opportunity I wasn’t going to pass up! Fortunately, my distinctly non-drinker mom was on board with this, and as things would turn out,…

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#Europe #Porto #Portugal #travel #vinho #Visit Portgual #wine

Portugal, day 5: November 26th

Now that we had a good night’s rest, it was time to explore Porto more. Falling in line with our usual modus operandi, we booked a walking tour to help us get acquainted with the sites and history. Another view of the city, but this time from an observation point in our neighborhood. Our tour took us around the center of Porto, which was fair as there was a lot to see. However, before we really…

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#city excursion #city tour #Europe #Porto #Portugal #travel #Visit Portgual

Portugal, day 4: November 25th

Today was when we’d be heading out up north, to the second city of Porto. Our train wasn’t scheduled to depart until the afternoon, so that gave us a few hours to kill. Harkening back to the first day, we decided to visit the house of Portugal’s first Nobel Prize winner, the writer José Saramago. Here’s what a Nobel Prize looks like! Having successfully killed an hour, we made the twenty-minute…

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Portgual, day 3: November 24th

Today was all about our excursion to Sintra, a town roughly half an hour outside Lisbon. Why here? There were a series of picturesque mansions and palaces that always rank highly on things to do in Portugal, and we weren’t about to miss it. Getting outside of the urban sprawl of the capital was also a bonus, so we were looking forward to it. However, as it was a wet day, our expectations were…

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#castles #palaces #Portugal #Sintra #travel #Visit Portgual

Portgual trip, day 2: November 23rd

Sunday was our “free” day to roam to our heart’s content, and we naturally decided to make the most of it. We decided to go with a suggestion Logan made yesterday and hike up to one of the oldest districts in the city, Alfama. Here, there was the Castle of São Jorge, which we were able to see the previous day. Because we knew this would be a popular destination, we made a point of getting there…

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Portgual trip, Day 1: November 22nd

Back in late spring/early summer, my mom asked me if I wanted to go to Portgual, and naturally I said yes! After all, it has long been up there on my list of countries as well as giving me the chance to practice my Portuguese from my self-studies! To make a long story short, we booked our trip to the country for the Thanksgiving break. It also posed a slightly different set of challenges to plan…

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(*DISPATCH*) s01e14: Love Story

So, Houlihan and Burns (but Houlihan especially) are extremely upset that Radar seems to be getting romantic with an officer, Louise Anderson. Even though they only saw them talking together at lunch? With Hawk and Trapper also present? It strains credibility a bit. If pressed, I’d say that what this show is missing is any real heat between Radar and Lt. Anderson, beyond his smitten first encounter with her when he carries her bag. By now (14 episodes into season 1) the show’s creators should know that we’re in this mainly for the sex. Louise has a flirty moment with Hawkeye in her tent which surpasses anything that ever goes on between her and Corporal O’Reilly—this is just unfair.

That said, Kelly Jean Peters is great as the intellectual object of Radar’s affection. She looks like someone from now, maybe an adjunct professor at a Midwestern grad school, as much as like a 1950s military nurse. (She doesn’t look like a ‘70s lady at all, strangely enough.) Though her tastes in music and literature force Radar to jump through cognitive hoops and ultimately bore him to sleep, she succeeds in taking his mind off his broken engagement. Pity she didn’t come back a few years later to give Winchester a try.

My favorite parts of the episode are at the front end, however, before Anderson has even appeared. We see what made Gary Burghoff such a sublime Charlie Brown, as he sulks in the mess hall and lies in fetal position listening to his sweetheart’s “Dear John” record. (I wish I knew who did the voice of Linda Sue.) The doctors put him through a battery of tests to find the cause of his sadness, and he’s funny throughout, sweetly patient with a subtle air of irritation.

The episode title is a reference to the film of the same name, which was huge at that moment and a hundred times sappier than MASH. We’ll take Radar’s love life over Ryan O’Neal’s. We’ll also take Hawk and Trapper having “pillow talk” in Margaret’s bed.

#just watched this and I wish Radar did get together with her

One year after returning home from abroad: my thoughts

As some of you might already know, I permanently left Russia back in the middle of April last year due to my work contract/visa being ended prematurely. It was, however, time to come back due to a few different factors, and I left with my head held high. That isn’t what I wanted to discuss though, since there’s one thing a lot of people experienced when returning from abroad: reverse culture…

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Secret Panel HERE 😴 tapas.io/episode/3382743

#me the other night

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Sergeant Angua of the Ankh Morpork City Watch. She’s one of my favorite characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. Delphine Angua von Überwald is the only werewolf in the Watch–that we know of. I also have some old sketches of Vimes and Detritus, and I really want to do a series of more realistic paintings of all my favorite Watch members. http://SaltwaterWitch.com

I’m working my way through some of the favorites in the Watch: Detritus http://the0phrastus.tumblr.com/post/172699455011/sergeant-detritus-of-the-ankh-morpork-city-watch Vimes http://the0phrastus.tumblr.com/post/173125339491/we-first-meet-sam-vimes-as-a-miserable-night-watch

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priorities

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Y'all forgetting the OG

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The above post is not the OG.

The original, as seen below, was posted on Facebook by a guy in Cincinnati. Someone else saw it and thought they would have more luck propagating it if they changed the city to “Detroit,” because in the American popular consciousness, Detroit is a more infamously blighted city than Cincinnati. And indeed, that version was the one that proliferated, because it resonated more with the people who saw it. The original poster and the original city were forgotten.

Does this really matter to anyone (besides Joshua Cromwell)? Perhaps not. But sometimes people do this with things that are more important than porches…