Huh? Wha?

We started with Spanish courses at work today. We have a lot of clients down in Colombia who come up to visit us sometimes and Rob and Jon were recently down there at a conference. This marks the sixth language in which I've had formal instruction. Obviously, I have some command of the English language. En école j'ai étude la français. Ich studierte Deutsch an der Uni. Ik leerde een weinig Nederlands. 我的普通话不好。 Hoy yo habla español. I'm not even being geeky and counting "languages" like C, Objective-C, HTML and Python that I know varying degrees of. I do have a need for all these languages. My wife is Chinese. My job deals with lots of Spanish-speaking clients. My dad's side of the family is Dutch but, each morning when I visit them, they usually ask me, "which language would you like to speak today?" I try to keep in contact with a friend in Germany but I don't do a really good job because shorter e-mails are taking longer to write these days. An old, artistic friend and his family are French and I also have a Chinese friend who's learning French because he works for a French company which sends him to Paris on occasion. Oh well, I think it's good to be worldly.

Something to report

You start a blog thinking it'd be good for practising your writing and sharing your thoughts with the world. It doesn't take long to realize that you're either too busy or lazy to write more often and that your life really isn't worth writing about. For those devote few of you who are still reading, there is something worth reporting: Ying's almost seven weeks pregnant! I do realize that anyone who's reading this probably knows this news. If not, sorry that I've left you out of the loop. I'll see what I can do about updating Ying's condition here. So far, there's only a bit of nausea that goes away with a good walk.