Monthly Archives: June 2008

Denist Success

It looks like all is well in the land of dentistville. DKC went today and got a root canal and filling, and that should finish her off. She’s supposed to check in next week one last time, just to make … Continue reading

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Castle BBQ

The big event of today was heading up to Trencin castle to have a barbeque and get dressed up in Medieval outfits and take some fun pictures. The archery practice was just gravy. For those of you who don’t know, … Continue reading

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Recuperating

Spent the day lying down today, for the most part. Took a brief walk, but I haven’t been feeling so hot today. It helped that it was raining buckets outside. The cottage has a tin roof, and I’m up in … Continue reading

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Update and Pictures

Enough with dentists, right? Contrary to popular belief, I’m also doing other things over here in Slovakia. Like catching up on movies. 🙂 Yesterday I watched two: Constantine and Pirates of the Caribbean 3. I actually enjoyed both of them. … Continue reading

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Good or Bad?

So, wife just went to the dentist again. Two teeth fixed, two crowns replaced. $300. Fine. The dentist thought everything was finished, but she asked him to look at one other tooth that had been bothering her. (Yeah–she’s got a … Continue reading

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Ixnay on the Imetay

Not much time right now. Had a good, full day–went to Melcice to visit wife’s brother and sister-in-law, and we took a train so that my son could finally ride on one. Very good pictures–I’ll try to post some tomorrow. … Continue reading

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German

You know what’s cool? When you haven’t had a real conversation in German for about two years, and then you meet someone who speaks German and you’re not just able to do the whole “how ya doin’” routine, but you … Continue reading

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Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad

So two good things and one bad. The first good? I wrote over 1,800 words today. This vacation is being very generous to my writing. The second good? We went into Trencin today and had a lovely time walking around … Continue reading

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Dentists

Part two a success. Denisa’s now getting work done on her second crown. Still saving bundles of money, which makes this trip a resounding success, and makes me feel much less guilty for coming on this trip in the first … Continue reading

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Brumov-Bilnice

All right. I guess I have no excuses now. I have time, a camera, the connecting cable, internet . . . I guess I’ll post some pictures. Today’s main event was a trip to a castle in the Czech Republic. … Continue reading

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