I try to use my powers for good

Remember a month or so ago, when I posted that a Texas Wench needed someone to go to a Minneapolis area store that was going out of business to place a final order for her? Well, Rilla was able to help her out!

Today, Gareth from KCRF posted that he was looking for a particularly obscure set of pulp spy novels that had recently been reissued - in India, and that he couldn't find a vendor who would ship international. Well, it happens that I know someone from Mumbai (see last week
s post) so I sent his posting to her. Let's hope that works out as well for them.

Wendyzski - uniting the world through commerce!

I has a proud

(and also a forgetful, since I meant to post this last week)

I studied some French in jr high and high school, which has mostly prepared me to misunderstand Canadians and notice when the subtitles of foreign films are wrong.

I also sang classical music for many years, allowing me to sight-sing in languages I don't speak.

I know a fair number of latin root words and some "grocery-store Spanish" (meaning I can understand signs and labels in the grocery store because I've seen them written so often).

Last week I had a double handful of quarters at the laundromat and I dropped a couple of them while setting them on top of the washer. The woman at the next machine offered me her spare plastic grocery bag to put my change in, but I said "No, thank you".

It wasn't until I turned back to loading my machine that I realized that she had spoken in Spanish! With one recognizable word (dinero = money) and her gestures, I had actually understood her without thinking about it. Go me!