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Au bal des pompiers, the fireman's ball, it only dropped below 30 degrees around 11 pm but hey if anybody passed out there were plenty of firemen around, not all of whom were scantily clad.

Beach! beach! beach!

Bassin d'Arcachon

The escalator at the subway exit I take to go to work has been out of order for about six months. They keep posting and reposting signs saying when it will be back in service (March! April! May!) and now it says September 31st, which gotta hand it to 'em, pretty good joke.

Tagging you if you're in your pajamas.

It was a studio, I think 20m2? You could get about three minutes of hot water. It was directly above a butcher (now a pizza place), across from a horse butcher (gone) and on the same street as three or four other butcher's (some gone, some still there). I moved there in June 2002, I was 23 years old, I had one pot and one pan, I couldn't believe how much I had, I was such an adult.

Wednesday was our 20th (!!??!!) wedding anniversary. The trip to Nice last weekend was Paul's surprise for us.

Some more Nice, a little bit of Ventimiglia

Paul organized a whole surprise weekend to Nice, where we lived so so many years ago when we first met. That selfie was taken in the street where we first lived together in 2002.

Midnight at Les Jacobins, Toulouse

Oh I guess it's that kind of day at the market.

I hit a thousand day streak on Sporcle.

Zinderneuf decided to puke right in the path of roomba, and I somehow managed to leap across the room and switch it off just in time (it being the robot vacuum) and I've been riding that adrenaline high all day.

Hello from Belgium

This is a slide from today's keynote speaker about digital tools for the classroom. Always a jolt to see the Tumblr logo out in the wild, can't say it gave me too much confidence in the keynote speaker.