more questions…

…sorry about that. on the upside, i started a smart saturday post with something i learned today so that i may not forget by the time weekend rolls around. i’m so clever, aren’t i?! (no answers needed here, keep your snickering to yourself!)

ok, question of the day: why are there so many ladybugs in this apartment? especially the living room. i noticed that when i first moved in. there were about 20 or so dead and some more flying around. i attributed that to spring and stuff.

ever since there’s been an occasional lady bug here and there, maybe one or two a week. don’t even know if that was the same ladybug or a different one. it’s clearly winter out. so all the ladybugs should be hibernating or whatever they do in the winter. they should not hang out in my living room trying to inhabit my ikea lamp. because that’s what they do and it’s annoying. i don’t know where they come from. i checked the window frames, underneath the window sills…they still show up. any clue? anything i can do to make them stop wanting to live with me?

franzi

smart ass saturday

finally, another smart post. i actually do not feel smart at all because the facebook question is still unresolved. maybe by next week’s edition that question has been answered.

so, i learned that there is a group of islands called turks and caicos islands. smart franzi thought, ok, turk something, that must be somewhere close to turkey then. aehm, no. it’s not. it’s a group of tiny islands in the west indies, sort of north of haiti just much smaller. it’s a former british territory but hey, the brits have been everywhere so that’s no real surprise.

and i also learned about the storyline in la traviata (the opera). a woman suffering from tuberculosis is torn between men, her life is being held against her and just when everything turns out picture perfect she dies. oh how operaesk. i had to look it up because i’ll go and see that opera tonight and i felt like i should learn at least something about it because i clearly won’t understand the italian.

the other stuff i learned, i forgot instantly. because that’s how i roll.

franzi

still no clue about facebook

i still don’t know why some people have the new facebook layout and others don’t. i googled the question yesterday and someone said that it’s got something to do with using the latest browser version. i’m not buying that. i know for a fact that don’t have an updated browser at work (because i always get this “update now” message) and i still see the new layout there.

my colleague who uses the same browser and the same version did not have the layout.

seems like over night some of my friends have also switched. weird. aren’t there any smart people around who know??

franzi