Technical Frustrations
Ok, I promise I’ll get a slideshow up here somehow. It’s just that every way I can think of to upload won’t work because of the file size. Problem number one is that I have copyrighted music on it and YouTube will mute any videos with said music. So, YouTube is not an option. If I could get it hosted directly on this site, I would would do so. However, due to the size of the show, uploading is impossible. Boo. I’ve also done the movie on Picasa & iMovie. iMovie turns the vid into a Quicktime video which is great but again….GRRR.
Update on the food pic from Facebook….The canned soup? Yeah, the stuff that I thought was completely innocuous and harmless? Fuck no. Bloody hell. I opened that thing up and it smelled bad which should have been a red flag. Bad as in masticated dog food. Secondly, after I microwaved it, the stuff smelled worse. It didn’t look appealing and although we ‘eat with our eyes’ first, that really isn’t an issue. Ok, first bite…. OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT MEAT? Eew, gross. The taste & texture was all wrong. No, no, no…. I ran the stuff through my translator only to find that it was pork liver soup. Granted, I hadn’t eaten liver in years and don’t recall liking it back then well…. nothing had changed. Fucking swill. I quickly dumped out that Devil’s juice and ate something else.
The bag of tortellini/dumplings? Meh, had some tonight. Not horrible but not great. They taste is a bit ‘off’ for some reason and they are kind of sour. What are they? I have no idea.
McDonald’s report–Big Macs are fine but the ’special sauce’ is more tart than what we’re used to in the U.S.The beer is still good and cheap. Hooray! I had some good local stuff last night. If you want to see where I ate dinner last night, check out http://www.deminka.com
If you look up that site, be sure to roll over to the English menu–that option is in the upper right of your screen. We sat at the tables right in front of the rounded bar and I had the fried cheese app (under Deminka beer specials) and the Goulash. The beer? I had some local dark stuff–it’s the one with the longest name on the beer menu. Woo hoo!
The yogurt here is still delicious and I had one for ‘breakfast’ today which was chocolate and coconut. Oh, and the same company that made the pork flavored chips, also makes a paprika/pepper flavored chip and they are quite good as well.
Something tells me I wouldn’t care too much for Czech food. Then again, I thought I’d hate the food in London and Dublin, but it was amazing! Good reading! Keep the entries coming. When do you start work?
Comment by Glenn — 11. February 2009 @ 00:57
translate first, eat second.
they also make a steak chips, and the grand prize goes to pizza chips.
Comment by Frank — 11. February 2009 @ 05:10
Love your updates! And photos! So awesome. Who is your roommate and is she annoying? Did you already start training or not? Have you had an awkward experience yet where you are a dumb American who can’t speak Czech and they can’t speak English? Are they welcoming to you as an obvious foreigner? Gog me.
Comment by Jayne — 11. February 2009 @ 05:32