re: #475 Creeping Diversity

If I’m not prying - why did you choose to live in Germany?

A long story. In any case, I studied German and Russian and wanted work with languages.

But the reason I up and moved here had more to do ith a couple of butt-naked German forestry students we met in the Grand Canyon in 1987. They invited us to Gttingen, booked us some gigs in the Irish Pub circuit, and to make a long story short, I found a day job as a translator/interpreter/graphics software jockey and stayed.

I might have returned in 1989, but that was the time when things really started getting interesting in Europe and I did not want to have to rely on US news sources (especially back in the pre-Internet era) to find out what was happening.

And business with the then-USSR started picking up as well, which I did not want to miss out on.

My company sent me to Moscow in 1992 (gosh, nearly 20 years ago, give or take a week or two) where I held out for a year and a half before turning tail and returning to the Fatherland, where it was boring but safe.