Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Automatic Ladders

Had my second day of Spanish language school today. I started a light-intensity 12 week course. It meets twice a week for 1.5 hrs. The class is small, just 3 students and a teacher. The content is pretty basic, but the speaking and listening is right on target. I think it will be good practice. The teacher is pretty good. She seems well-prepared, experienced, and tolerates terrible Spanish (which is good for me).

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I seem to have the beginnings of a cold. My first Spanish cold. I hope it's not too bad. Mostly just coughing right now. No real congestion.

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On the way home today I saw some movers moving furniture out of a 2nd story apartment. They had a ladder leaned against the building that had a motorized platform that was capable of raising and lowering furniture off of the balcony and down to the ground. I'm sure that people that live in big cities have seen these before, but I'm from Walla Walla, so I thought it was interesting:


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Mostly did math after Spanish class. Discovered that doing animations in jupyter is ridiculously difficult. Still not there yet.

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Took the trash out. On the way back, I took this shot of the street in front of our flat:


Just another night in Triana.