Cav's Place

I was saying I had volunteered to help with a translation and it seems that I only finished with that today. At first I had simply translated the ten-minute “slice” I had volunteered for, without even using proper Romanian characters, since my brain just ignores those and replaces them with the standard letters they’re similar […]

Between 2003 and 2006, I was posting reviews on BookCrossing for any book I read that was registered on that site, which, at least after the first part of that period, meant the vast majority of them. Those reviews varied greatly in size, style and quality, tended to include a fair amount of spoilers not […]

It’s the third Sunday update of 2014, but you can say there’s a reason for it, obviously on top of the fact that I can’t get myself to write anything else. As you can see from the title and despite what I was saying two days ago, the reason is that it snowed yesterday, which […]

Slightly late, but we can now say that autumn arrived here as of yesterday. It’s cloudy, rainy, somewhat windy and chilly, and tomorrow it’ll be downright cold, with the high being reported as 5°C and an estimated wind chill factor of five to seven degrees. Temperatures should get back to what would be normal for […]

If you don’t count a few e-mails from various sites and a text message from a shop offering me a 1% discount, which used to be higher in previous years, only two people mentioned it today, so that’s some improvement. Doesn’t make the day any better and my standard reply to the standard birthday wish […]