We had a great night out last night with Twixer (aka Olivier) who I met through a guy a work. We went out to play pool with him last week, and this week he was getting together with a bunch of his friends at a bar in town, so we dragged ourselves out of the house and stayed out until the last train. Great good fun. I'm always amazed at how well people do in a second language (much of the evening was in English, although it also spent good chunks of time in French). I am not, sadly, all that amazed by how well I do in a second language. That said, I'm able to hold my own much of the time, so I can't really complain. This evening we'll be going out again, to my old co-worker's house for dinner. We have to track down some flowers before that, I think, so the day will be full of random fun.

I've been having some trouble with the comments (for a while now, really, but I've decided today was the day I would at least figure out where the problem lies). So now I'm adding a comment so I can look at the comment program and see if that is where the problem lies, or if it is merely goblins....

whups! Looks like the problem is systemic. Have to fix that, I think, before too long....