Strange question on the metro today.

1120pm sitting in a wagon at Kievskaya station (central Moscow) with several other youngish folks.  Doors still open waiting to move off toward Smolenskaya station one stop down the line (also central Moscow) and a purposeful, intelegent looking lady in her mid 50s steps in.  Announcing to the whole wagon and to nobody in particular [...]

Counting Sheep

We had a prett long day today. The day started out with three early school lessons to catch up on the four days that we missed last week after our car tour around the Golden Ring.  The lessons when down well enough that he earnt himself to a trip to the movies to catch the latest Mr. Bean.  For [...]

Upmarket Supermarket - Superbitch!

Today I dropped into an upmarket supermarket Azbuka here in Moscow.  A brand new location for this famous chain but none the less they managed to fill it up with cashiers with diplomas in antibusiness majoring in organizational destruction.
 As I aproached the line of shiny new cash desks I was faced with a choice of [...]