How do you celebrate a birthday

I celebrated by going out with my lovely wife and family. There is a nice restaurant that is just down the street, literally two minutes walk which we have seen and wondered what it was like. Very nice, to nice maybe, but not very expensive for a birthday. Well, Josiah and Vanessa got Shashlik or shish-kabobs. I got Kazakh meat soup and Beshbarmak(Kyrygyz national dish though many Kyrgyz will adopt most anything)

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The other thing that you can do to make it very rememberable is to slam your finger in the doorway of a friends car have it throbbing for a day or so. That will really help the whole memory process, not only that it will make it difficult to type.

Josiah Sledging

We went sledding today, at first the snow was to thin, but as we continued to look we found some deeper and better snow, of course I found Ice twice and got a closer connection with it unintentionally experiencing the force of gravity when the legs are removed from underneath you. Though Its better when It happens here than in the city. We had a great time and really enjoyed the afternoon out in the snow. Much better than being stuck inside.

Studying a bit of Kyrgyz and a bit of Russian

I was working russian and Kyrgyz today and it was good, I have started working on Kyrgyz verb forms and focusing on one verb a day it will take some time, I have though since no one has done it yet it might be beneficial to publish a verb directory of sorts.

My day

My day
6.45 Show alarm goes off turn it off and crawl back in bed

7.00 alarm get up and take shower

7.30 wake up Josiah. " why is it that he always has a lie in on weekdays but wakes up daly on the weekend.

8.10 leave for school 10 minutes late. Get the matschutka quickly. Arrive at 8.35 5 minutes late

10.00 get to the office after matryshka ride. Sometimes I can study

10.30 after greeting every one plan my day

11.00 work on studying before my lesson at 12 russian & KG

11.10 Asked if I could help sort out someones inability to connect to the internet.

12.20 lesson focusing on kG verbs

1.30 Doctor came by to pick up Russian built ESU. ESU had blown fuses. The problem was they we're tiny and totally unavailable. I ended up replacing the whole holder with standard fuses

2.30 working on short Medical equipment acquisition questions
Thankful that Vanessa was able to pick up josiah otherwise I would have to leave now.

Discuss other projects

4.30 Prepared to ho home for family night

5.00 went home to relieve Vanessa, just a bit, from full time delightful baby care.

9.30 Work on projects/research/Kyrgyz flashcards on quizlet

11.30 go to bed- read a little

Pascal on humanity

"When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then?." -Blaise Pascal