Can you say BFFs about a couple of 70-year-old dudes?

Certainly! That's cool.

The 'unamerican credentials don't transfer well' thing still exists

Oh yeah -- talk to cab drivers, and they have all kinds of stories about having been professionals Elsewhere. (And I'm sure this is true of all kinds of jobs that don't require credentials and are heavily staffed by immigrants, but I'm most likely to be having a conversation with a cab driver, among that group.)

Oh, yeah, my FiL used to complain about having to redo part of his, hm, I forget the details, certification? Trained as a doctor in South Africa, I know he worked as a doctor here and I don't think he had to go through med school again but he did have to do something twice that he thought was ridiculous (I don't think it was that I wasn't paying attention so much as everyone else in those conversations had heard all this a million times so an abridged version of the complaint was all I heard.

My head is much clearer today. In a congestion sense if not in a thinking sense, haven't tried much thinking yet but breathing is working pretty well!

Considering that I forgot was cooking eggs in the time it took to write that post, I'm gonna guess "thinking" is not at peak levels.

One of the ladies who was a cashier at the cafeteria at work was a biologist from Chile. I never got the story of why she was here.

Yep. Peter is my dad's second cousin, and now that he's living in New York, one of his BFFs.

That is very cool. I voted for him once, for the Australian Senate. (He didn't get in.)

Very pleased with my new French press. I did notice that the instructions on the box say to use 3T of coffee while the instructions on the sheet inside the box say to use 1T of coffee, which maybe I should bring to someone's attention but I probably won't. I'm using 3T. Anyway, I didn't realize when I was comparing the various small carafe presses we carry, but I managed to get one that doesn't have to have the top aligned right to pour, which is good for me, I often forget about that.

I feel like I really need to speak up here for the people in Poland that I've worked with for so many years, and/or taught, who have never been anything but respectful of my Jewish husband (who keeps a form of kosher) while we've been there, and took us to Auschwitz and the discussion we had about my DH's feelings on seeing it and the complex relationship they have with the site.

That's good to hear.

::poke::

I thought my long-running internet problems were office-wide, but apparently not! I finally complained to IT, and they came and fixed stuff! Just goes to show, I guess, that sometimes complaining is the right answer. I do think that not doing it ALL the time is worthwhile, since they still take me seriously.