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Monday, January 28th, 2008

Close Enough. Thank you!

This is the typical process I go through ordering food from a non-English speaker. This conversation happend this morning.
Me: Can I have a Sausage, Egg, and Cheese McMuffin?
Her: ^&(&^*(^&*(^?
Me: Um. Sausage?
Her: Ah. Bacon?
Me: No, Sausage.
Her: Ah! &*(&^($^&*?
Me: Uh. Sure.
I pay. She gives me a plain Egg and Cheese McMuffin.
Me: Close enough. Thank you!
At least she […]

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Saturday, January 26th, 2008

On a train to who knows where

It’s a seven hour train ride from Prague. At least this train has electrical sockets for my laptop.
Sometimes my mind convinces me I am somewhere else. Riding on the bus to work, I think to myself that the city streets of Budapest are actually the city streets of Downtown Vancouver, that the rolling hills between […]

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