Odd ends

It’s been 48 hours in my apartment, and I must say, it’s great to have your own place. Here is a pic of my new kitchen/office:

One of the advantages of settling in is that you can catch up with the processing of recent events. One such was the wedding of Yianna and Eurof. My digital camera was handed around and some fine portraits were made, some more candid than others. I wasn’t up for designing yet another cutesy wedding site, so I plugged my camera into my Mac, pushed a button and had Apple do the rest. Enjoy the results.

When something’s broken, you try to fix it. Calling it something else usually doesn’t work. And so it goes with the EU. What it needs is a drastic financial reorganization; instead, the proposal is a name change, from European Union to United States of Europe. Silly silly silly. This would mean that soon the region encompassing Europe and the Middle East will be called USE ME. Tools. I’m sure the US will oblige.

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