MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Probably none. I remember my job in college I made around $1.25 per hour working in a restaurant. But $3 doesn’t go far these days.
My ex-wife’s brother has a big tree farm in Indiana. He has planted many acres of walnut trees, and in between the walnuts, there are evergreens, which grow faster. The evergreens encourage the walnuts to grow straight up towards the sunlight.
Some day his children or grandchildren are going to have a lot of valuable walnut trees. And in the meantime it’s not that much work.
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A friend of mine I worked with in 2 different startup companies lives in Singapore, I always thought it would be an interesting place to visit. Beautiful too, and I wouldn’t have to shovel snow. Any place where you have to fake snow to have any doesn’t sound all bad.
I had to look up Dino Glow though. I didn’t remember dinosaur/Godzilla types during Christmas. I guess it’s a toy they have here in the States too.
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Jürgen,
That was very cool. I don’t remember ever seeing a model train with Christmas lights like that before. It reminds me of the Lionel train set I got when I was very little. 5 years old or less.
It’s amazing how many things I’ve seen in the Club have reminded me of something I hadn’t thought of for a long time.
Where is that train from? Nice touch to overlay that snow falling on it too.
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Another serious tree. I used to think if I ever moved out to a farm, I’d use part of the land to plant Christmas trees. Yes, you need to trim them, but otherwise not that much work.
Or maybe this is just another example of anyone else’s job looks easy.
Anyways, thanks for posting that Tim.
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Nice cars. Do they have green ones to go with them?
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I love jjigaes. Soon dubu Jjigae is a favorite. I am pretty open minded about trying food that not every American would try. I know only a few food words in Korean. Jang is sauce, for example. I probably know more German than Korean. But for all practical purposes, zero of both. I do remember once, someone in the Club wrote a post in German, and I looked at it and thought, I know what that means! Only happened once though.
Thanks for the tip on Korean Air. I will remember it. If you ever go to Paris, I recommend Air France. They have real food too.
I remember flying back from Paris once on Northwest Airlines. We stopped on the way to the airport at a traiteur, which is a shop that sells prepared foods. We skipped the Northwest dinner and ate the good food we brought — I don’t think they’d let us do that now. The French people across the aisle apparently didn’t know to do that, and they were not happy. C’est mauvais, ca.
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Jung,
That was cool. Interesting version of Oh Come All Ye Faithful. Reminded me of when I was a choir boy in grade school. I still remember the harmony I used to sing to that, although I’m not a soprano any more. But the version on the video sounded like a mechanical voice singing it.
I have the opposite problem from you. I have never been to Asia but I would like to go sometime. And Seoul is on my shortlist. I live in a city of 120,000 people which has always had around 3 dozen Korean restaurants. I don’t know why there are so many, but I’ve gone through a lot of Bi Bim Bop in my time here. Yeah and kimchi and other banchan. Lots of gochujang. Food is one of my other hobbies. It would be very cool to try out restaurants in Korea.
My daughter is seriously into video games, so Seoul is the #1 place in the world that she’d like to go, so I’ll have a traveling partner when the time comes.
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Very nice. And looks like at least a little snow.
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Train Kept a Rollin’ was an old blues tune that Aerosmith covered.
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Okay, so since it was headed away from me, I have almost a year to figure it out if I want to ck it out next year.
I know there are train lines that go to/from US and Canada as if the border wasn’t really there. One that comes to mind is the Grand Trunk Railroad in Flint.
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I recognize some of those neighborhoods in Paris, since I’ve been there a number of times, but never at Christmas time.
The only time I was in Europe around Christmas, I was in London. Twice. I remember going to Harrod’s in 1986. It was very busy.
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That’s cool. I was trying to see if the train went through Michigan, but all I found were Canadian cities. But one of them was Windsor, so not too far away.
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Jung,
That looked pretty nice to me. And that melted cheese looked good.
Thanks.
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I used to have a Christmas cactus, but it succumbed to my black thumb. Beautiful though while it lasted, and at a time of year without a lot of other colour.
I used to buy live trees, and go through all of that, but one year I told my daughter that, instead of buying a tree, I’d just give her the money instead that I would have spent on it. Sold.
Merry Christmas to you as well. Joyeux Noel, Feliz Navidad. Those are my extra languages. I have a lot of Irish in me too, but never studied the language.
I’m not sure why there isn’t already a Star Trek style universal translator, since the technology exists. If there’s one thing ChatGPT does well, it’s translate. Or at least, I think it does.
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My first reaction was to tell you that there are no Christmas markets here.
But then I asked Google about it, and it seems there are a few. And they are modeled after German ones. This one lasted only one day, about a mile from my house. I guess I missed it. Hard for me to call it a tradition.
https://kerrytowndistrict.org/kindlefest
There is a town north of here named Frankenmuth, Michigan. It’s whole shtick is to be a German town. It has large restaurants serving German style food, and yes, I see now, they also had a Christkindlmarkt.
https://www.frankenmuth.org/christmas/
I can buy DAB beer in bottles around here. That restaurant I mentioned had the pilsner too, of course, but I like the dark in the cold months. European beer, in particular German, Belgian and British, is still easy to find here, but in recent decades there has been a huge rise in microbreweries in America. It is pretty easy to start a microbrewery, and they are everywhere.
They tend to follow a certain style – lots of hops, alcohol, and sweetness. I prefer old world styles of beer, but I don’t drink much beer of any kind any more. If I’m drinking something from Germany, it’s most likely Riesling.
You mentioned bratwurst – they are very popular in America. The closest store to my house is Aldi’s. So I can easily buy sausage or red cabbage, for example, that’s made in Germany.
kerrytowndistrict.org
KindleFest — Kerrytown District of Ann Arbor, Michigan
KindleFest — Kerrytown District of Ann Arbor, Michigan
