New Nestle Invoice/Receipts

Recently, Nestle changed what documents they provide when they deliver water.
It used to be a two page, carbon-copy document with the little holes on the side which were used for a form-fed, dot matrix
printer. Now it’s printed on a laser printer.
The first time, I thought the change was great – one clean page, all information [...]

Russian Ingenuity – no, really!

The Russians do a lot of jury-rigged things to get things done or make things work. While this is impressive in a certain sense, mostly the examples I’ve seen or made note of make me cringe at the sloppy way something is done, or unsafe, or whatever. Yes, it works, but how long before it [...]

Suggestion for Moscow Times

Last Friday, I was searching the Moscow Times for movies being shown in English. It was a very frustrating experience, because while there was a very long list of movies and which theaters were showing them and when, the fact that a movie was in english, dubbed or something else entirely was very difficult to [...]

New Website for Moscow expats

The poorly kept secret of the day is this: www.redtape.ru has launched! It appears to be run by some people who were running the [url]www.expat.ru[/url] site, but it’s cleaner, loads faster and there doesn’t seem to be all the griping and flaming that goes on on the [i]other[/i] site.
If you haven’t found it yet, check [...]

Update on Illegal Parking

I was in Vapiano restaurant (corner of Prospekt Mira and Grokholsky, near the American Medical Center) and as I was shedding my coat, I noticed a sign on the wall:
“Please be aware that if you park in front near the trolleybus station, your car is at risk for being towed.”
I must admit, when I first [...]

Eurovision 2007

It came and went with barely a whisper, at least in my radar of awareness.
Serbia won. Congratulations.
Ukraine was second – way to go Serduchka!!!
Russia was second – impressive. I’ve heard the song and while it’s got a nice beat, the lyrics are … odd. Anyway, nice result. Try to be happy this time.
But, this is [...]

Coyote – Mexican

Yesterday, we had a hankering for some mexican food. We had seen Coyote on Prospekt Mira several times and decided to give it a whirl.
Bad decision.
As soon as we entered the place, we were suspect and decided to just order some appetizers and drinks. If that checked out, we could order more. If not, we’d [...]

Nestle Purelife has problems

We get our water from Nestle Purelife. I didn’t do a lengthy search to choose them. I heard about them, saw an ad, their name is recognizable the prices aren’t awful, so I chose them. It’s been pretty good for almost two years now.
But, in the past month, things are a bit screwy.
First, I called [...]