Windows to Russia

Many years ago, Sveta made her first video almost all by herself and I think it is good. She says the song is about a Blue Trolley! So she took a video of her trolley ride home, put her favorite song with it and here is what she got in return. This was many yearsContinue reading Russia: Blue Trolley Ride!

Svet (PS: The Russian original version below) Булат Окуджава Цирк Юрию Никулину Цирк –не парк, куда вы ходите грустить и отдыхать. В цирке надо не высиживать, а падать и взлетать и под куполом, под куполом, под куполом скользя, ни о чем таком сомнительном раздумывать нельзя. Все костюмы наши праздничные – смех и суета. Все улыбкиContinue reading Svet: My Circus Translation!

Time for Planting; putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow… Time does fly and this past weekend, Sveta went to the village again to finish the paper work on the village home. The laws changed several years ago and she had to get all the paper work up to date, to keepContinue reading Time to Think Planting…

Cyber Secured Security; an oxymoron; 50 terabytes! Snowden leak reveals massive size of F-35 blueprints hack by China – 🙂 One does have to laugh though when you think the America National Security(?) Agency doesn’t understand that if you have secret information that you wish to keep secure, you don’t keep it on a computerContinue reading Cyber Security(?) and thoughts…

For the first time since I have been in Russia, the snow, ice, and temperatures are decent for a winter. A wonderful, blessed winter with fantastic weather and the snow and ice are melting away. This is fantastic, for normally we are walking on a meter of solid ice, that puts your heads into theContinue reading Winter is Great this Year and Coffee

All I can do is fix the broken in my life. I have to analyze and correct what is, out-of-place… This seems easy, but it really is not so simple. Simple is swatting a fly that irritates you, but when your roots and past connections, drag you to the gates of torment. Then you realizeContinue reading Life – Analyze and Fix…

American Data and Russian Rosstat data on birth rates… Ever since I have lived in Russia, the western media and pundits have attack Russia consistently over one item, birth rate. Even while this same, is a fact in their own countries also. They attack Russia with closed eyes to the truth and once again neverContinue reading Birth Rate: Russia and U.S.

When I was a little tyke in the prison called a state-run school, the state trained teachers, taught me oil came from dead dinosaur pieces/stuff/poop, rotting plants, and abundance of waste, from all creatures on earth. Then the powers of wisdom told that we would be out of oil and all living in caves again,Continue reading Dinosaur Stuff – Oil?

The project was first proposed in 1962 and was assigned to the Interdepartmental Scientific Council for the Study of the Earth’s Interior and Superdeep Drilling. The drill site was chosen in 1965 in north-west Soviet Union, 10 kilometers (6 mi) west of the town of Zapolyarny, Russia. The initial target depth was set at 15,000Continue reading Kola: The Race to the Center of the Earth!

wise, they like him and came often to ask an advice. And there lived very smart man in this village near the wise man. And this smart man envied the wise man a lot. He did not understand why people wanted to get advices from his neighbor and not from him. So one day heContinue reading Svet Sunday: All In Your Hands!