In the style of old-world "blogging" where you talk about your day and your week and your month and all that, welcome to the latest installment of GWMD the July Edition. Most importantly: Happy Canada Day to all of our readers! On this fine first of July in the Central European Subcontinent we find ourselves enjoying sunny skies, partly cloudy, with a high in the environs of 26 degrees centigrade. The summer has finally gotten under way after an agonizingly stretched-out warm-up process that included, inter alia, ninety-four billion metric tons of rain falling in and around the Greater Munich Area along with seventeen EU-officially-recognized matters-of-record "severe" thunderstorm and/or wind-combined-with-heavy-rain-and-thunder/lightning events as codified in the EC 483.48 directive of the Warsaw Treaty of 2011.
Stuff in the news: Euro Cup (7 teams left; at the end of the weekend it will be 4, hopefully including Iceland and discluding Germany); Brexit (Leave Campaign really actually hoped to lose by about 52-48 instead of things going the other way around so that this whole thing that was meant as a crass political move could actually work out only as that but shit); Austria will vote again probably in the Fall after it seemed there were too many irregularities in the vote that saw the Greens just beat out the Neo-Nazis (seriously) by 30,000 votes (what a world); Tour de France (starts tomorrow! big names? Contador, Froome, Quintana -- it's gonna be big! But for the first time in quite a few years no Canadians will be on the starting line); and the major headline last: Hannah now officially has 2 teeth. Let the Champagne rain down...
Pemulis family news: we will be hosting Helga's favourite name-starting-with-a-T uncle as of the day after Canada Day; we have developing plans to go expose Helga's young skin to the Tuscan Sun as the Earth flies into the position that represents mid-July; what else? Helga-Mom will do what she can to make the family proud in September's world-famous Tegernseelauf as she races the 21.1 km distance through the Alpine foothills of the Bavarian hinterland (important side-note concerning said Tegernseelauf: "Mission accomplished: The Tegernseelauf 2015 was CO2 neutral" -- finally!).
Random innocuous tidbits of data (not necessarily "information"): no new apartment yet (project postponed); no running/cycling/swimming progress (project postponed); no world-famous bread recipes invented (project postponed); not yet vacuumed (project indefinitely postponed); apartment not yet "baby-proofed" (project postponed); GWMD blog "reboot" with fresh new writing and a daily dispatch from the field (project abandoned).
Interesting post, too bad I missed it while I was there. Yesterday the Jays won with me on Canadian soil, hopefully they don't cancel the kickstarter campaign.
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