You know, it's been a minute since I've been here, but I'm just now noticing that the symbol for the spoiler tags is actually a radioactivity symbol. That humor was lost on me when I was younger. Also hi.

LOL
I think everybody has these moments, when we come back to stuff we have read, seen or heard in our youth. And we go : ooops, THAT's what it meant.


We have found accommodation in Austria near my husband's stepmother's home. So we will meet her next week, go see the city, go see the lake, maybe go up a small mountain and generally have fun.

  I have a cousin who is going to Czechia for work for 3 months (starting Aug 1). I do not remember the city but he told me is closer to Vienna than to Prague 

Cool. He'll probably be in or near Brno. My grandmother grew up in a small village in that area.

I admit I've never been in Vienna. Just once for half an hour at the train station on my way to Linz, which doesn't really count in my opinion. Not that I saw anything. But I want to see it some day. My husband doesn't like cities, he prefers nature. When we go there, I'll send pictures. Promise. 
I am still trying to convince him of a day trip. I'll take crutches with me, so I can walk.

Strange New Worlds is awesome. I like their joice of actors. At first I was in doubt about Spock, but I soon changed my mind. And Christine Chapel! Once I noticed who this is, I said to my husband, hey she's always been in love with Spock. He couldn't even remember her. In the old series she always had cool hair. Woven somehow. I tried to do my hair like that, but I didn't succeed, lol. One probably needs a second person to help. And very likely longer hair than I ever had. I always felt pity with her, because Spock didn't love her back.

Hi @all.
I told you about our old and sick cat. She died.  
On Sunday she got worse. Before that she could at least eat and drink from a spoon and she wanted to. On Sunday she wasn't able to get up any more and she couldn't even swallow her water when I put it into her mouth with a syringe.

We then decided to let her go and I planned to call the vet Monday morning to tell him, so he would put her to permanent sleep.

She was with us all afternoon and evening and when we went to bed we took her with us, because we didn't want to leave her alone on the sofa. In her condition she would have fallen down.

So she died at night in our bed.

I am glad we didn't need to put her down in the end. And that she went in her sleep in a peaceful and painless way.

She was the first cat we had who died of old age. All the others were hit by cars when they tried to cross the busy street to get to the fields with the best mice.

We are very sad. My best friend said something beautiful: now she is in heaven on my father's lap purring while he is petting her. At his foot is a dead mouse she brought as a gift.


I gave Blood Rites to my colleague and told her not to read the text on the backside of the cover, because there is a massive spoiler there. And after that I want to know, if she found out about who Thomas is on her own. LOL

@Dina
Oh, that's inconvenient about the site. Maybe they changed something. I am using my phone and it uses chrome. Every few months I delete my browser history and all the cookies. I did that last week. I was told only once after opening the site that it wasn't secure, but it does that every time after deleting. Even now there is still a small exclamation mark in a red triangle, which usually went away after I said "open anyway". But this is all there is.

Hope you enjoyed your lunch. Yes, milanesas are like Schnitzel. Yummy.

I need to clean our rubber pool today. I would like to soak myself in cold water. There was a storm a few days ago and it removed the protecting sheet on top of it, so that there are apples, branches, leaves and insects in the water now. I intended to do it yesterday but I had so much else to do and after that my knee hurt too much, so I left it for today.

If you mean the "fuego" shout at Chichen Itza, I never interpreted it as coming from the grey council. Were they even there yet? But from some of the Rampires/half-Rampires being Mexican and just shouting "fire" in Spanish. Which confused Harry at first.

Hi!
(((((Dina)))))
I also liked the short story. Jim Butcher will be at Supercon this weekend. I hope there will be videos on YouTube or so. And I hope (admittedly to our own advantage  ) that after that he will be full of energy and creativity to put that into Twelve Months to make it the best not planned novel ever. 

Yesterday at work I got startled that this Saturday it will already be July! June has gone by so fast. How did that happen? Maybe because I had lots and lots of appointments with doctors and PT.
My PT guy is Spanish by the way. Sometimes he has another Spanish guy with him and they talk to each other about the job and I noticed I did understand at least what they were talking about, just enough to guess what they meant. Sometimes it's just single words, though. But hey I never took a real language course, just Duolingo.
The other guy's German is not so good yet, so he talks in a mixture of German, English and Spanish.

The left knee is not OK now but I can use it and I am mostly without much pain. But sadly my right knee is not getting better. Next week I will have an appointment with another specialist to talk about how to proceed.
My PT guy managed to improve the flexibility of my muscles and tendons but there is still some swelling and I am not able to walk correctly.

And of course I know I need to loose weight, but we all know that as always easier said than done especially when you are limited in movement. I know how to do it, I have lost 15 kg already 3 times, but it always took 1 year and I always got it back afterwards and I am not a nice person when I can't eat what I want, lol. And back then I was still able to run.
I think I could do it again though, but honestly I am afraid of myself in the process.

Happy belated birthday to your hubby! LOL about the cake.
Taste is all that counts.

It is said that cats don't like water. Yet tigers can swim and do so when they have to.
Mine doesn't like having wet feet but everything else can be wet and she doesn't care.

I was at the river today and it has significantly less water than 3 weeks ago in comparison. I even walked a bit into the water, but not too far, because it was getting deep there.