I lived in mons(SHAPE) for 6.5 years as a kid was fluent in flemish and French. Now I just just barely understand.. Happy birthday Oma!

Right. Like anything he does will offset the carbon that Big Oil and the Chinese put out.

This is how I feel about all the questions like "who is the new prime minister of some country i cant locate on a map and will never visit." I don't venture out of rva because last time i checked the news it was depressing.

Stayed in a hostel in Brussels many years ago. Enjoyed the visit!

Yay! So happy that your Oma and her friends get to enjoy your work as much as we do!

Of course. Lier, Gent, Antwerpen, Wevelgem, and Deinze

Well. They each have their own governments and languages so your joke doesnt really work here. We’re tearing ourselves apart within the same government and language. This is more like you made the US and Mexico the same country.

Have you painted any murals in Flanders?

I re-read LOTR trilogy last month always a great one. Currently going through the collected essays and letters of Hunter S. Thompson

> Really its two countries that despise each other taped together

Huh, wonder what that's like...

Countryside

Beer, frites, and mussels sound amazing.

Starting my weekend off at work and it is very chill right now. Trying to read this new book over the weekend.

Op have you read anything good recently you would recommend?

What a beautiful place! Are you in the city or countryside?

>I take about 10 trans-atlantic flights a year,

Jeez that's a lot of carbon.

Sunny, somewhat humid. We might hit 60 today.

Enjoy your time with your Oma!

Horrible. Opa was drafted. Oma and her 2 tiny sons spent a lot of time in bomb shelters. Opa was injured in Russia, came home on leave, went back and was captured by the US and taken POW, taken to a camp in PA. He had been a butcher previously, which benefitted him. There was no word of all this sent home, so they assumed he was killed or MIA.He just showed up again one day after the war. Life postwar was unbearable but the stuck it out until 1953 and then came to the US.

Oma lived to be 88, not a grey hair on her head ever.

Per the article in addition to paying some of the Pauls he also used the money for private school tuition for his kids and country club fees

Ok but unless they have a tip pool then tips are never distributed equally so. Maybe should talk with other employees about how much in tips they are receiving.

>I doubt she knows or gives a shit

This is the way.

No questions, but Flemish red was my absolute favorite style of beer back when I drank. 10 years ago I would have been very jealous of your current position as it was really hard to find in the US.

Lil snow last night, otherwise cold and quasi-sunny. Hows rva?

Considering they are asking questions about American cabinet member positions I doubt she knows or give a shit.

Nope, not unless you count the bitchy neighbor. Just old as hell and makes normal old house noises.

My father (american) married my mother (belgian) in Belgium and she came over with him to start their family

What’s the weather like there?