once more into the breach

So, I went to enroll in another German course today, but they were all full with the exception for one which was too far away to be viable.  So, I'm going to enroll for one starting in April.  I'll do it early so that I can get the course in the location I want (ie: close to where we live).  I could have enrolled for one today, but it was three days a week and so far out from us that it would have taken an hour or more to travel there.  It seems to be very common here that people speak English.  That makes it not impossible for me to do stuff like buying things and interacting with people, as long as I can take the time to communicate with them.  I went to get a hair cut today after searching for the German course.  There were a bunch of salons that would have suited my needs, but they were all booked out for the next few hours.  So, I found one, and absolutely typically I discovered the one salon where the guys spoke German and Hungarian, but no English. Still, after getting around that with Anna's help, I ended up with a fairly decent haircut.  Unlike London, hair salons here are stupidly cheap for men.  The women's prices are lower than in London usually, but the men's prices are just stupid.  Figure €10 to €15 for a decent wash and cut.  Try matching that in London (though the barbers down the road from the office used to be seriously cheap too).

In other news, my sister just passed the last phase of her doctorate!  I think she has a couple of revisions to make to her thesis, but nothing too much, which is nice :-)

I have been doing some more work on the C#.Net version of this site of late, though not as much as I wanted as I've been bust with other stuff.  One thing I did discover was that there is now a fantastic new .Net blog engine around that I have downloaded and played with a little.  Its called BlogEngine.Net, and does everything that I want my blog to do already.  It is written in C#, and released under Open Source (actually I think its shared source, but I don't have the license in front of me.  Its so good that I may end up actually using it on this site instead of something else I might write myself.  Stay tuned for more!