Category: Random

Plumbing

~ Veselin ~ 7 Comments

I hate plumbing but at the same time if a mild plumbing issue appears, I attack it like a Pitbull – fiercely and with a very mild competence. Today the toilet in our shared co-working space didn’t stop filling the water tank. I changed this thing and now it stops.

Little did I know that it can actually be regulated up and down, and when it doesn’t close the faucet, you can pull it down and potentially achieve the same without the new mechanism. I only discovered that when the new mechanism stopped filling the tank way too quickly. Still, the problem is solved, one way or another.

The Iron Bridge

~ Veselin ~ 12 Comments

Not a tourist attraction but I liked the view. The little one wanted to go there to buy a specific type of candy from a specific store right next to that bridge. Who am I to resist to an offer to walk 1 hour with no particular purpose?

We saw many snowdrops on the way to the bridge and back.

Quinces

~ Veselin ~ 6 Comments

Geo Milev, Sofia. Hard to find pretty things outside these days so here’s something that I didn’t expect to keep hanging. Felt like seeing creepy dolls.

Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat, Book Review

~ Veselin ~ 10 Comments

Prisoner of Tehran is an autobiography by Marina Nemat about the abrupt end of her childhood. She was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard at the age of 16, imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death without trial. Some of her friends and schoolmates were executed and she escaped death by accepting a forced marriage to her interrogator.

Marina is quite calm and angelic in the book. She tries to do what’s best to never hurt anyone other than herself. What happens to her and her friends, however, triggers more rage than the top five X influencers combined.

I rated it 5*/5 despite the anger the book induces. Knowledge sometimes hurts. This book is a painful read. I need a book by Janet Evanovich next to flush my brain, to forgive and forget.