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let’s catsup now that le deconfinement has started
I haven’t been posting. I was sick and le confinement in France was really restrictive by American standards (I wasn’t allowed to gather up a bunch of guns, put on a flag shirt, and a MAGA hat and then go into or in front of any government buildings to complain about not being allowed to…
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Surviving the Apocalypse Grâce à Amazon
25 March 2020 I’ve been weaning myself from Facebook for several reasons. The first is that the political polarization of Americans demonstrated there has disgusted me for a long time. I do not know if it is getting worse during this crisis or if it just bothers me more. I am consciously trying to not…
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Chez Moi
21 March 2020 I originally planned to write about what it is like for an American to integrate into society in Alsace. Eventually that is what this site will probably be about, but obviously I’m not doing a lot of integration right now. Until a week ago I went exploring every day and saw things…
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I have a toothache and the Coronavirus
21 March 2020 I haven’t actually tested for the coronavirus, but I definitely have a toothache. Probably I have the virus since my wife has been in close contact with people that tested positive and I have the symptoms. I don’t have any respiratory distress so it’s kind of like a mild flu. We’re on…
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Adjusting to the Metric System (and not writing about the plague)
Educated people (even Americans) are familiar with the concept of the metric system. We use metric money everyday and were taught the metric system in school. When I was a kid we were told that America would be changing over to the metric system but that didn’t happen. Somebody told me that America ultimately decided…
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au marché
11 March 2020It seems like the world is shutting down for the Coronavirus scare. The beer festival I was planning on going to at the Romrod Castle in Germany canceled and I’m told the Houston Rodeo has canceled too. So I guess we are all supposed to sit at home, binge on Netflix, eat canned…
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Why did I wear these shoes?
The answer is obvious if you are as “metro” as I pretend to be: the shoes match the purse. I have giant feet. They say that guys with big feet … have to buy big shoes. That can be an issue in Europe. Size 14 US translates to about a 48 in Europe and the…
An American in Alsace 