Mid-week Miscellany

OK....maybe I'm reading too much into this, but....

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They really should assign different colored packaging for products meant for different body parts.  Just sayin'.

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You know you're having a bad day when you come home from work to find your house looking like this:

It seems the City of Foat Wuth, TX hired a contractor to demolish a home down the street that had been condemned.  The one that should have been demolished was at 9708 Watercress.  The one that was demolished was at 9716 Watercress.  Maybe they should have given the guy driving the bulldozer a literacy test?

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Well, that's one way to chip away at the budget deficit.

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All is going well with foreign language (French) study.  Just as with English, conjugating verbs is a pain in the arse.  The idea of the "total immersion" method where you don't study all that noun/verb stuff but just dive in and learn by speaking is sounding pretty good, but I looked into the Rosetta Stone program and found it had a lot of dissatisfied customers.  Any other options?

Just thinking....if I were to move to France or Italy or Germany, etc, and spoke English, wouldn't I then be speaking a "foreign language"?  Ta Da!

S

I'm gonna need one of those funny hats

I've been wanting to learn a foreign language for some time now.  A friend told me recently when he was preparing for graduate school he began learning Japanese because he thought learning another language would sharpen his mind.  As he is very successful today I'm guessing he might have been right.

But which language?  Spanish should be the logical choice as there are Spanish speakers everywhere here.  To me, though, it's just not a very pretty language to listen to.  I took it in college and after two years mastered little more than ordering eggs and beer and hurling various assorted familial insults.

I narrowed it down to German, Italian, and French.  Since K had several years of French in school and could probably help me, it's the one I chose.  For now I'm using an online app, but if I steadily progress and stick with it I'm going to invest in a Rosetta Stone*.  (A good luck charm wouldn't hurt, either.)  After 4 days I already know that French boys eat red apples and French women are rich. 

I'm pumped!  At this rate I'll be speaking like a regular Frenchie before you know it.  I can already feel my mind being honed to a razor's edge.  Y'all better stand back.  ;)

S

*Anyone have any experience with Rosetta Stone?  One to five, how many stars?