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Groceries, Gustav Mahler concert with hateful ex-program director, wandering around Vienna with Colleen in search of a place to sit and drink, and the discovery of the Käsekrainer- sausage filled with cheese, sold at roadsides stands far past the time when you can buy anything but booze in Vienna, smothered in tasty mustard. All I need to do is figure out what the ones entirely submerged in a bun are called, and I have found my new junk food.

Actual Update on the Subject of Last Night: Gustav Mahler, Noodles, Bier and Würstelstanden

The morning of yesterday consisted of big nothing: I bought some groceries, but that was really about it.
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Grammatical Reflections

One of the more famously lampooned aspects of the German language is the length of compound words. It was formerly possible, and grammatically correct, to simply compound whole clauses and sentence-worths of information into a single word that runs a line or so of text.
This particular aspect has been reformed in the interests of clarity in writing, but I find myself wishing today that it stayed. Because, while the grammatical structure to simply create huge adjectives is more diluted, the desire to do so remains.
I cannot count the number of times today that I've had to stare at a sentence for minutes just to figure out where the hell the subject is, only to realize that it's at the end of the first clause, and what I *thought* was a whole other separate thought as merely serving as a string of adjectives to describe the sentence. The old system, while impossible to look things up, would at least have allowed the clear visual reminder that it really is just one adjective being tacked on.