Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Strike

We are now having a hard time finding diesel for our car, and the ATM machine in town is out of money (armored car service on strike, apparently). At least is obliges us to bike to work! I don't really understand what all the noise is about. There must be something else at work besides moving the retirement age to 62, because that really does not sound so bad!

Posted by max at 10:26 AM

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

money crushing machine

life in Grenoble, France as an expat postdoc
life in Grenoble, France as an expat scientist
life in San Francisco, CA as a biotech nerd life in Grenoble, France as an expat scientist

Blog Archive

Popular Posts

  • watches
    I enjoy looking at mechanical watches -- particularly those that expose the movement of the watch in some way or another. If you have never...
  • Antiques, playground
    After a quick lunch, everyone went to the centre ville to check out the antique fair. It used to be called Jambon Brocante, but is now call...
  • (no title)
    thanks everyone! Chloe is doing a lot better now and pushing like a champ!
  • A new knife
    I've been wanting a Damascus/pattern welded knife for a while, mostly because they look beautiful. The Banno Bunka that my mom bought m...
  • oh so sad boulders
    We bouldered at the Sads today -- lots of attempts but no glory on 'Molly', but good efforts and climbing by all. Even Zoe took the...
  • Montaud
    Another shortish ride up Montaud and "Le Coing" today. I had a brief no-kid window and hemmed and hawed about which side of the v...
  • Eureka Dunes
    We drove to the Eureka Dunes in Death Valley. Death Valley Road was a bit snowy, but not too bad and we made the trip to the foot of the du...
  • a blast from the past
    Miss ya, Daddy-o!
  • more pictures of the Hammer lady's handiwork
  • Vegas
    We've been climbing for two days at Red Rocks , just west of Las Vegas. We went to the Gallery at the second pullout, and tried out som...