• Lord Valentine’s Castle by Robert Silverberg
• Cugel’s Saga by Jack Vance
• The Sargasso of Space series by Andre Norton

Magnets

That’s really interesting, I hadn’t heard that before.

I’m almost 60.

I found out that I’m allergic to penicillin when I was a child (in the mid-70s) and had an anaphylactic reaction. I still remember being intubated by the paramedics because I couldn’t breathe.

Five years ago I had tandem stem cell transplants to treat myeloma (blood cancer), which completely wiped out my immune system. I had to have all my childhood vaccines over again, and I was re-tested for penicillin allergy, (because they thought that might have been erased too); it’s definitely still there.

Penicillin

Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas from GTA San Andreas. I loved to spend hours just exploring, looking for the secret items, and finding the funny little easter eggs and references.

The cities in Assassin’s Creed. Can’t remember the names. Are they “big”? They seemed to be at the time. I only ever played the first game in the series; again, I loved wandering around and exploring.

Five Finger Death Punch?

Want to come home and fuck?

There is a wide variety on temu. I was surprised at the quality of them.

Having a normal conversation.

Washington DC?

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/moist.catsweat.com

Is your book Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein?

Yes

“We’re with you, Mister the Kid!”

Dumb and Dumber

The coyote from Road Runner. He comes up with plans, some simple, some complex, and they always fail to work. Oh wait…

“This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.”

My parents migrated to Australia but only spoke German at home, so that’s what I learned. When I started school, they discovered their mistake, and I had to learn English. I remember my father saying for many years, “This is Australia, we speak English in this country”, my younger sister and I weren’t allowed to speak German at home, so I forgot a lot of it. In high school, we had to learn French or German, so it was natural to learn German. So German is both my first and my third language.

When I started school, about six years old.