Notice the 4 months gap between now and the last post? Well, things kept happening and bloggin wasn't on the top of my list. But here I go again with a super high density summary of what happened since we came back from Scotland and if i have time i will add some extra thoughts in the end.

My mom was here

My mom was here for 3 weeks to visit us and my brother. Good food, fun times. I miss her now.

Csabi was here

My friend Csabi was here for a few weeks. We had a good time. I spent a lot of money: wonderland, Niagara falls, wild water rafting on the Ottawa river, CN tower, pubs, restaurants, beer, gas. It was good to see him. Pictures here

The neighbourhood is getting hostile

Wallet stolen, bicycle stolen, lanterns stolen, drywall screws in parking spot, car spat at. Cops suggest we ask our MP to provide more funding to the police. There's nothing wrong with cops, they are very funny people with good jokes. I will go down to the station any day now if i need a good giggle.

We put Daisy in daycare but the first place we tried wasn't good and she didn't feel happy there, not to mention that she had no access to water and scraped half of her own nose off because she wanted to get out so desperately. We've been told it doesn't hurt though. True, if I think about it I can't imagine how an open wound, about 2 square inches, on top of my nose would hurt at all. Silly me.

I took her to another place where she is happy. When I pick her up she is happy to see me but not desperate to get out of there. She's tired.

Cat's at my aunt's. I damn near killed the thing because he wouldn't stop meaowing in the car for 1.5 hrs in traffic.

We bought a house

In Burlington. Yep. That is at least not Hamilton:)
I'll post pics when we move in in 4 days. The house is not so big (small) but it's on a big ass property. Y'all invited. 667 Wickens. Beware of the dog: please don't scare her too too much.

Work work work sigh sigh sigh work work work sigh sigh sigh

I got hired (officially) full time on July 16th. Currently I am the only employee here who has a contract, which I wrote myself and my bosses changed here and there. It was a long and intense negotiation in the pub on night for a few hours before we finally agreed on everything. I also got a 0.43/hr raise for some weird accounting reason. Still, my paycheck is not as happy as it used to be but at least taxes are deducted like it or not.

Extra thought: $400million is just a small part of it

On Discovery Channel I saw (at Rachel's parents, because I still don't have cable) a program about various tests how university students - who are funded by god knows who - developing ATVs for the Mars. Little ugly looking machines that must be light, small and carry high tech stuff so they can, for example, take very important geological samples from the surface of the Red Planet. Machines they build cost about 7000US (which is about 7000CAN nowdays). Then they revealed that the real Mars machine currently on Mars cost $400,000,000 (four hundred million dollars). I'm guessing that's not the only machine they developed. And I also have a feeling that there might be other costs for space missions: research, shuttle launch, spacesuits, paying hundreds of people, control stations, monitoring, yada yada. So they are spending many many billions of dollars each year to get a few grams of space dust back to Earth and transmit some blurry images from the surface of this and that planet.

Woooooooah! $1 billion US is about 170,000,000,000 Hungarian Forint. (HUF) One nice big kaiser bun with a few slices of cold cuts and cheese plus a big jug of milk is about 500 HUF.
It's enough food for just about anybody for breakfast. NASA could buy breakfast for 340,000,000 people.
There are about 10 million people in Hungary so the question is:

Breakfast every day for an entire country or dust from the Mars?Can you think of other ways to spend $1 billion? The Americans can't.

ZoltansPictures.com is up

Zoltan's Pictures dot com is up. 3GB of storage should last a little while. By the time I run out of space there I'm planning to be filthy rich so I can by my own servers and never worry about stupid things like disk space.

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