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Monthly Archive November, 2025

A Nightmare Becoming Reality and Paying for a Good Run Time

On the evening of November 22, I went out when it was almost 8:40 PM, with the recyclables with the deposit symbol, picking up a few more and putting them in the machine from Carrefour. And then I bought quite a number of things, but since only half of the discount showed up right away […]

Quick Review: A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

This was such a nice read overall. The first part uses key moments from Attenborough‘s professional life to portray how humans have changed the planet during one lifetime, starting from listing the population, atmospheric CO2 and remaining wild areas at the beginning of each chapter. And I was obviously very pleased with the fact that […]

Quick Review: Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist

It’s safe to say that this book greatly exceeded my expectations, and the writing style has a fair bit to do with that. I’ve seen other reviews stating that it’s overdone and the author is showing off and thinking too highly of herself, in this and other ways, but I disagree and will say that […]

New Windows Installed… And Going as Badly as I Feared…

On November 15, I went out at 7:45 PM, with the recyclables with the deposit symbol, including a bottle which hadn’t been accepted before, after tearing the paper that it was almost entirely wrapped in to make it look more like a regular label. And that way it was actually accepted, along with all the […]

Those Were Unexpected Turnarounds in the EHF European League!

I don’t know how it’ll be from the group phase, but the qualifying rounds for the Women’s EHF European League weren’t on TV, and while I looked up Rapid‘s and Minaur‘s matches on-line last week, after they both lost by six goals, Minaur away and Rapid actually at home, I didn’t even bother to check […]