Stuff to do

[cjsmith]

Before going to Germany and Scotland:

• Pick up prescription
• Prepay some periodic bills
• Finish Pimsleur German tapes (22 lessons to go)
• Much laundry
• Decide whether to take my clunky film camera or an equally clunky hand-me-down digital
• Remind self how to drive a stick
• Contact flight instructor to mention three-week delay

In the next week (which turns out to mean before leaving):

• Check in with BOTH doctors
• Fix upstairs toilet (before houseguests Fri/Sat)
• Return library books
• Pay a pile of bills
• Arrange lunch with David?
• Get started on hepatitis shots?

By mid- to late August (which almost means before leaving):

• Write thirty-six more sequences of C4
• Write a buttload of hard C3B
• Write a buttload of clever-but-easy C2 and C3A
• Fill out COBRA paperwork

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Where in germany are you going? I stumbled across a *chocolate museum* in Cologne a couple of weeks ago that had "everything" - the usual history, but also a greenhouse with banana plant and cocoa plants, and a "production" wing with operating grinding and conching equipment, all the way to a production line with robot arms and candy-wrapping gear. I haven't got the photos on line yet, but if you're in that part of the country it is worth a look... _Mark_

oh man!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! We'll be in Barmstedt, a small town an hour's drive from Hamburg. With only Wednesday afternoon and Thursday free I doubt we'll get as far as Cologne. Some day, though...!

Re: oh man!

[berlinvirus.livejournal.com]

In my best Dorothy (Judy Garland) voice "You'll make it to Cologne some day... You've just got to believe in yourself and keep trying." Ok, that was dumb.

>>Decide whether to take my clunky film camera...

Definitely clunky film camera! For photos that you'll want to keep for a lifetime, I'd definitely not rely on digitals.

$0.02

camera...

[gev.livejournal.com]

given that they are equally clunky, I'd stick with the film camera.