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About Me

____________________________________________________________ __ If it weren't for some people with whom I got acquainted on this site, and who have become dear to me, I would delete this account. Dealing with MySpace, which was more interesting than real life some time ago, taught me that real life is more interesting than MySpace. One of life's pretty little ironies, I suppose. ____________________________________________________________ __ Also, I'm not happy with the changes in MySpace, with the new layout, the new comment editor, the ever new features etc. I'm growing old and have always been a bit inflexible, slow, and opposed to changing things that suit. There is another cause why regular activity on MySpace has become kind of an onerous duty. As for regularity, my performance as a correspondent has always been poor. I struggled against feeling bad for letter-owing, and now I'm ready to admit that regular correspondence, while regular visits or phone calls are no problem, does not belong to the things about me that I long to improve. All that is still regular with me in MySpace is reading the blogs to which I subscribed. ____________________________________________________________ __ Else, I've undertaken it to translate a book and while this is a thorougly fulfilling task it leaves me with no inclination to write anything else but my daily share of version-text. ____________________________________________________________ __ If you belong to the people whom I told that I am fond of them you may be sure that I do not forget you. ____________________________________________________________ __ If you wonder what I gotta do with Jim Polk: He's one of the great loves of my life. It wouldn't really matter that he's dead and was rather a sinner, would it?

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Anyone who knows about things I'd like to learn.

My Blog

One Third

Since I began to translate James Polk's diary I keep a list in which I note my daily achievements and which I use for statistic calculations. The list is part of my own journal which I keep in excel, ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:34:00 GMT

John Young Mason

He was Attorney General, and later Secretary of the Navy during the Polk administration. The influence of this man on American history is hard to estimate, but it may have been considerable. While rea...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:12:00 GMT

4th of July, Washington D. C., 1846

President Polk's account of the day with German version and my Mom's probable comment on it with English versionPräsident Polks Bericht vom Tage mit deutscher Übersetzung und der wahrscheinliche Komme...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:37:00 GMT

Didit! Didit!

I made a chocolate pudding for my sweet-heart (and sweet-tooth) to celebrate the occasion. Today I finished the translation of the first volume of James K. Polk's diary, exactly three months after beg...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:39:00 GMT

A Sermon from 1849, Preached by a Methodist Pastor

Well now, I do by no means expect that you read the following. I merely want to give you the opportunity. Somehow the intention of giving merely the words about the commemorated President which were m...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:16:00 GMT

To Commemorate the Death of James Knox Polk, 160 Years ago

The following is an excerpt from the Biography of John McFerrin, the pastor who baptized the ex-President and preached at his funeral a few days later. The book, and others about James K. Polk can be ...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:40:00 GMT

10 %

On the 30th of March I began in earnest to prepare a German version of James Polks diary and today I translated the pages 190 through 195. The whole diary having 1941 pages in the printed edition thi...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 18:24:00 GMT

Dunce!

Not all figures that appear in my mind in spontaneous picture ideas wear one of James K. Polk's faces. Some use the appearance of a former "me", and at least one of them seems to be wiser than the par...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:30:00 GMT

I$th, löth, ijth, /ßth, !gth, etc.

Some of you might have noticed that I changed my profile name. Of course I did this, when, and because, I found out that I had all the makings of James K. Polk's German translator. Who but me would ha...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:12:00 GMT

Strange sound on my profile

During a spruce-up of my profile I found that it opens with an agressively swishing and grating sound, followed by kind of a rasping cicade-song. First I thought it came from some obtrusive advertisem...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:18:00 GMT