Out with the old

And time to start something new. See, I recently finished a bit of a thesis on late Roman Spain, and I've entered the post-project funk of having nothing important to do (or just not wanting to do the important things that I should now be doing). In any case, I've returned to the laptop to move on with a new project, much shorter in duration (I hope!), focusing mainly on the pottery from somewhere in Spain. Pretty fascinating stuff, if you're interested in this sort of thing, which I am.

My foot hasn't bothered me at all lately, so I'm thinking about developing a new injury elsewhere, perhaps something wii related. Soccer thrice a week in this 90 degree weather isn't going to make my old kelme duende amancios (size 9.5) very happy - they turned 4 this past April - so if anyone finds a lead on some new ones, please to pass along that information. By the way, they stopped making these cleats.

I've recently received a new espresso machine, much happier than the krups xp2070, whose pump seems to have lost a good deal of power and eventually gave me nothing but weak coffees. The new machine (new to me, anyway), was given by a pair of amazing friends from Mexas, and the machine works beautifully. I'm refining my grind settings and tamping procedure to accommodate the new 58mm brewbasket, and as long as I can keep the calcification down in the boiler, it seems like I'll enjoy this new machine for years to come. Of course, I won't object if someone decides to mail me a commercial machine along with those replacement cleats.

Well, since I'm working again, this blog is wasting valuable Spanish emailing time, so I'll get back to that. If you'd like to know more about my soccer cleats, feel free to post something in the comments section. Happy summers!

The world didn't end?

But maybe a lot of people won't be showing up for work tomorrow, I don't know. If the rapture happened yesterday, then I missed it. I like to think we've got a second shot at making the grade over the next few days, months, or years, but my end time theology is just not as robust as it could be, so I apologize for not offering much security on that front. I was relieved, in a sense, to finish my phd before this particular rapture, because frankly I put a lot of time into that thing and it would have been a bit anticlimactic to get swept up just days before finishing the degree.

Speaking of degrees, we just bought our first totally awesome piece of furniture. I can't talk much about it right now, it's still kind of emotional, but it's going to look really nice in our new apartment, especially now that we have a new accent rug to go with it. Yes, it has been an eventful week or two. I realize that it has been a long time since I updated my readers on events here, but I can't really think of much more to tell you. Yes, I did replace the intake manifold gasket on our car recently, with no adverse effects, and perhaps, once winter returns, with some positive results. The wife has a few different job options out there now, to go with my one job, so I think we're going to make it through yet another calendar year. Yay for us.

That's about it from here, any questions or suggestions for future stories? Sorry that things have become so uninteresting lately!