I do like the literalness. But whenever anatomy discussions come up, I have a hard time. I learned the Latin(-based) terms for stuff like Bauchspeicheldrüse and Blinddarm and Schienbein, but typically only medical professionals can use words like pancreas, appendix and tibia, and they think they’re helping me by avoiding them.

Their reviews on amazon.com are mixed, but I suspect some of those might be ID-10T errors.

Thanks Scott!

Is it the same word for what snails leave behind? It ought to be.

Excellent question, Mom. I looked it up on German Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

Während die Fortbewegung bei kleinen Wasserschnecken auf einem Wimperteppich stattfindet, kriechen die größeren und vor allem die landlebenden Arten auf einem Schleimteppich, der hinter ihnen als Schleimspur zurückbleibt.

And here’s my translation:

While small aquatic snails propel themselves along a eyelash carpet [!], the larger and especially the terrestrial types creep upon a slime carpet, which they leave behind as a slime trail.

So, no — ich habe Schleimstraßen, aber Schnecken nicht. Sie haben Teppiche für ihre Häuser.

I of course have used none myself and want to learn from research.
Looking at all these it really seems like the US carriers charge too much.

Fun with language when the subject matter is anything but.

Once, I had some horrendous upper respiratory/sinus drainage issue and the Dr. turned off the lights in the room and pushed a flashlight against my cheek. Apparently, if sinuses are not clogged, the light shines out the nose. I still start laughing to remember it, but I was too stuffed up for it to work. Someday I will remember to try it.

Is it the same word for what snails leave behind? It ought to be.

Love,
Mom

BECAUSE ENOUGH OF US WILL SUCK IT UP.

You need to be able to phone home to Germany while abroad on your business trips.

I’m looking to be able to get my email and use my apps to stay connected while outside of my in-laws’ WLAN.

You want (primarily?) voice service for calls to Germany from abroad, and I want (primarily) data service to everywhere.

I put a lot of thought into the separation of personal and business telephone communications and billing and availability. Our company has been grandfathered into Telekom’s TwinBill service: one SIM card, two numbers, with separate billing. So in theory, I don’t even need my nifty dual SIM smartphone — except for cases like this, when I think I can do better with a local provider than Telekom while traveling.

The billiger-telefonieren link you provided links to travelsimple.de for AT&T service in the USA. I see there that a $25/month plan is available with an add-on option for $15/200MB/30-day. So, minimum $40 (I’m not sure if 200MB would last me long enough for the 10 days in question).

That’s why I’m looking more closely at this T-Mobile SIM-only kit for use with a 1.5 GB pre-paid data plan. More data, but no telephony. I suppose that’s what Skype is for in those cases.

Those rates seem reasonable (compared to the €0.75 and up that the DE companies would charge).Travelsimple.de seems to pop up most often. They would probably have some sort of data plan as well.I will be interested to hear how it turns out for you as I am in the process of getting a second mobile for private calls abroad (work switched from Vodafone to Telekom so we will be getting a much higher bill for my phone calls abroad and I don’t want to be faced with my boss listing out to the second how many calls were between my wife/daughter and I. He’s not a bad guy, just Schwabian).

Love,
Mom

I just had a piece with my usual morning cup of coffee, and that was fine, but I bet the Tee-Trinker will find this Kuchen a great complement to their hot beverage of choice on a cool, rainy morning like today.

And by the way — how can there be fresh, domestic, organic apples this time of year? I keep forgetting to ask someone at the local farmers’ market how that work. I thought apples were an autumn crop.

There are usually a few of that type of boat hanging round. Some are local, carrying visitors to the Walhalla memorial downstream a bit and back, or the longer-haul cruise liners linking Budapest to Amsterdam via the Danube, Rhein, and connecting canals. Regensburg is a big stop for those boats; in high season there can be as many as five of them docked at once. I used to ride my bike along the river banks to work to avoid stoplights in town, but got too frustrated by the throngs of North American senior citizens crowding the path, utterly unaware that they are thwarting my efforts at a lower-stress commute.