Hello everyone!
Long time no see, and it's all my fault. How are you? I missed you guys a lot.
Regen, you and your family ok? What about you Dina? Is your Hubby alright?
Personally, I'm "enjoying" the sweltering heat, trying to keep my cat from stealing my dinner, and raising a little puppy!

Well, I have 3 trees outside, that I leave to the neighborhood kids, and I have 2 trees that are right outside my window, and they yield about 5-7 kg daily, of which I eat at least 1 kg and sometimes a lot more. And these are the sweetest fruit I've ever tasted, if you wait until they're ripe enough to almost fall by themselves. As a comparison: I tried eating some cookies right after I finished enjoying a handful of juicy, succulent, tasty berries that burst in my mouth as soon as they hit my tongue, and the cookies tasted bland and sugarless.
So, as far as I could tell from your earlier posts, education (even at a university level) in Argentina is excellent. Good job trying to protect it. Private education is good in the short term, but in the long run, it's quite destructive to society. Once you have to pay for it on an individual level, it becomes a business, and the prices will be over-inflated to the point where only the elite will be able to afford it, thus raising the prices in certain areas (medicine/law/engineering, etc).
I'm sorry, did you say that you had an inflation rate of 100% in one year? :O

Hello everyone!
Just checking in on you! I hope everyone is doing alright.
Spring is here, and it's very hot. Looks like this year is going to be even hotter than the last. 43 celsuis today, 42 yesterday.
On a more positive note, the unseasonal heat made my mulberry trees ripen early, so I've been eating the berries like a pig for 2 weeks now, getting happily fat I can't resist these babies when they're fresh off the tree. There's something extremely satisfying about picking a fruit and eating it in the same motion.

Well, a little gratuitous violence never hurt anybody..except for the victim, that is.

Hello everyone
I haven't checked in for a few months, and for that I do apologize, but I get that way sometimes.
So when I first clicked on this topic, it got me to a few pages back, and I did read about Regen's cat dying. I'm so sorry...  I feel your pain. Part of the reason I didn't check in often was because my oldest companions (My dog, Rex, and my cat Minion) died within a few weeks of each other. Minion ate something poisoned by one of my neighbours, and Rex... I had to put him down.
On to happier news: my Puppy just got a litter of puppies, and they are adorable. Still 10 days old. Puppy herself always gets mastitis a couple of weeks after giving birth, and subsequently refuse to nurse the pups, so this time I'm playing it a little smart, and giving her an ongoing half dose of antibiotics. Hopefully this time it'll be alright. So far so good .
How is everyone doing? Dina? You and hubby ok? Regen? You and your family?

Hello weirdlings
Sorry I haven't been on, I missed you guys.
How's everyone doing?  Myself, I have a couple of mulberry trees (one white, one black) that yield about 26 kg/week each from mid-april to the beginning of June. The white ones are so sweet, if you eat a cookie afterwards it tastes bland. So naturally I ate (directly from the tree) whenever I got hungry, and gained 6.5 kgs LOL.
Its apple season now though, so I'm using that to get rid of that extra weight.
@Regen: I know that struggle, I gain weight easily as well. I made a few changes to my diet a few years ago, and now I'm only 12 kg overweight instead of 35. But these 12 kg are horrible. I lose 3, gain 10, lose 7, etc etc. And I have a very physical job as well, which helps a lot. You, though, are screwed You have to take the hard road.
PS: Thanks for the PM

Your match was amazing. I always enjoy watching Messi in action, and Alvarez's first goal was just awesome , All Arabs were cheering for Morocoo, but France scored an early goal and Morocco couldn't keep up, losing 2-0. While I was cheering for Morocco, I'm kinda glad that they lost, because it would've made a one-sided final with you crushing them. Unfortunately you're going to contend with France now, that match is going to be epic!

@Dina: Congratz you do know that I'm rooting for Argentina, right? Since playing Fifa World Cup 98 on my pc.
I liked Cinder Spires too BTW.
@Regen: Ummmm.. Polish, Russian, Japanese and Spanish... How is your brain not melting? Lol.
about Spanish, maybe watch Spanish movies with Spanish subtitles? That's what I plan on doing when progressing enough in French. I recommend a 2006 Spanish movie called Pan's Labyrinth or "El laberinto del fauno" it's the only Spanish movie I know, but I loved it, and the language sounded simple to my ears (distinct words, not jumbled). It's a bit dark, but I remember loving it.