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| Twmpa as seen from Blaendigeddi Fawr - Cymru Fach |
Or 39. That's when I was a freshman at BYU, 1975, the centennial year. One of the best years of my life. It's also when a certain federal employee was fired who recently filed an appeal of that firing. I hope the Judge understands timeliness issues. Things like that drive me crazy at work. Oh yeah, and crazy in the head that I take home with me to distraction, despair, and migraines.
So, I'm on my quest to conquer the Welsh language of my ancestors. And hopefully to get new synapses firing to keep me from senility, oh yeah, and migraines. In broader terms, this fits the plans of my wife and I to get ready for post-retirement volunteer service. I want to volunteer at the Church History or Family History Libraries with some knowledge of Welsh to be able to help others. Then when my wife is ready to retire, I'm hoping we can get a family history mission in Wales. Oh, yeah!
So by popular request (a couple of FB friends) and in spite of the complaints of my children, I will copy in here the running commentary I put on FB to tell the story of an extraordinary day.
Ok. I think I can make it from work door to door in an hour before rush hour. That is as long as I can find the door here because the JKB is really freaking me out. Did they like build extra floors between the floors? And BYU cops are now where I used to go to church. — at BYU (Brigham Young University).
Ya know that dream where you can't find your class schedule and ya have to go to the admin building for the umpteenth time to get another copy? Ok. Maybe that wasn't a dream. But I just flipped my computer on and THERE WAS MY SCHEDULE!! OK. only one class and it's not til 4, but I know the room number now.
!! I just saw a guy older than me!!!
!! I just saw a guy older than me!!!
Wow! I mean WOW!!! That only took a minute and a half, too!
Ssh! In the library now. I just realized I CAN CHECK OUT BOOKS!!
And there is that bank of PC's, which I have actually used before as a visitor, where huddled freshmen are anxiously printing out their class schedules . . . So, the world hasn't changed that much.
And there is that bank of PC's, which I have actually used before as a visitor, where huddled freshmen are anxiously printing out their class schedules . . . So, the world hasn't changed that much.
Maybe I should check my work email.
NO! I took annual leave to be here!
I am on my laptop now realizing that my phone was going to die soon. I have a charger line in the car I could go get. My laptop is good and charged and I have a cord to plug it in just in case. I'm just afraid that in this school-of-the-future, the teacher is going to start up by saying "OK, open up your laptop to this url." Because our textbook is ONLINE (another money saver). The Welsh government wants its people to learn their own language so there is a standard and official Welsh course online that we use which is rather socialistic if you ask me. But also OK by me. Payback for my ancestors in those coal mines or gaols.
I need to go wash my hands. I still smell Taco Bell.
NO! I took annual leave to be here!
I am on my laptop now realizing that my phone was going to die soon. I have a charger line in the car I could go get. My laptop is good and charged and I have a cord to plug it in just in case. I'm just afraid that in this school-of-the-future, the teacher is going to start up by saying "OK, open up your laptop to this url." Because our textbook is ONLINE (another money saver). The Welsh government wants its people to learn their own language so there is a standard and official Welsh course online that we use which is rather socialistic if you ask me. But also OK by me. Payback for my ancestors in those coal mines or gaols.
I need to go wash my hands. I still smell Taco Bell.
There are a lot of guys with beard cards.
I saw one guy with a beard and a dog he was holding while waiting at Taco Bell in the Cougareat. I guess it was a helper dog or he was helping the dog or something. He probably has two cards, or the dog has one of them.
I saw one guy with a beard and a dog he was holding while waiting at Taco Bell in the Cougareat. I guess it was a helper dog or he was helping the dog or something. He probably has two cards, or the dog has one of them.
in the classroom. There's one young guy in a flat cap. The door is in the front of the room so it's going to be hard to slip in late. I have my college-ruled spiral binder and a pen, and the computer. One older looking woman. OK, we're doing fine.
AVU:posted toGrant L. Vaughn
You have so many posts I don't know which to comment on. Do you want to come to our apartment for dinner or are you going to taco bell again?
Whew!!! Dwi'n hapus i fodyma! but what a fire hose!!
The absolute weirdest thing, one of the oddest in my life, however, was when we wrote our first names on the card with our home town. I didn't know what to put so I put Nyssa, OR. Three seats down was a kid who wrote "Grant, Nyssa, OR" Major freakout. He is a H. He knows my cousins B and A, who is, of course, his Stake Pres. The other Grant is actually from Adrian and was born in Germany.
The absolute weirdest thing, one of the oddest in my life, however, was when we wrote our first names on the card with our home town. I didn't know what to put so I put Nyssa, OR. Three seats down was a kid who wrote "Grant, Nyssa, OR" Major freakout. He is a H. He knows my cousins B and A, who is, of course, his Stake Pres. The other Grant is actually from Adrian and was born in Germany.
OK, a Stake Prez is interviewing people next door. I'm outta here.
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I wonder what the Welsh is for "good karma." Have to look that one up.
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