Мы Пошли Праздновать С Джереми | Celebrating With Jeremy

Мой друг Джереми скоро начнёт новую работу. В данное время oн техник по взрывчатым
веществам. Через неделю он вступает в должность инженера, где он будет продолжать работать с взрывчатыми веществами.

My old friend Jeremy will start a new job. Now he works as a technician with explosives. After about a week, he'll work as an engineer (also with explosives.) He loves explosives!

Мой друг Ефран, Джереми и я пошли праздновать его новую работу. Мы стреляли из оружия дробовики. После этого мы ели в ресторане "Азума" японскую еду. В "Азума" Джереми пил алкогольный напиток сакэ бомба.

Our friend Efrain, Jeremy, and I went to celebrate his new job. First, we went to the City of Albuquerque gun range and fired shotguns. It's super fun shooting clay pigeons! We then ate at the restaurant "Azuma."

На Azuma, Джереми хотел выпить сакэ бомба. 

At Azuma, Jeremy wanted to drink sake bombs.

Когда я говорю "сакэ," вы говорите "бомба."
When I say "sake" you say "bomb!" 

Сакэ!?!
бомба!
Сакэ!?!?!
бомба!!!
Сакэээээээээ!?!?!
бОМБА!!!!!!

Это мой друг Ефран и его беременная жена.

This is my friend Efrain and his pregnant wife.

Это моя подруга из Ирана – Ава
This is my Iranian friend Ava.

Чем мы становимся старше, тем меньше у нас остаётся времени для встречь.

As everyone becomes older, it's hard for everyone to meet and spend time together. It was nice for the guys to celebrate.

словарь

по взрывчатым веществам - with explosives (dative case) 

с взрывчатыми веществами - with explosives (genitive case)
взрывчатые вещества - explosives (nominative case)
пришёл праздновать - went to celebrate  
Мы стреляли из оружия дробовики. - we fired guns (shotguns.)
сакэ бомба - sake bomb
беременная  - pregnant
приятно  - pleasant, nice

Russian Extra Credit - THE BLINDING LIGHT OF HISTORY

My past few posts have been in Russian, or about Russian things. As people close to me know, I have been studying Russian for about five years. Presently, I'm finishing up a class at UNM called "Russian 202" which is a second year, second semester, Russian course. I'm conversational, but definitely not fluent. I prefer to turn in assignments on my blog, which makes to polish them to a point where they are more than disposable artifacts of some academic discipline, but rather a way to communicate with people that care about me what I'm up to in my life.

This can be difficult when those people don't speak Russian. So here's one in English!

For an extra credit in my Russian class, our professor said we could check out "THE BLINDING LIGHT OF HISTORY" which is a collection of Russian paintings and drawings at UNM. I decided to check it out, and write a quick blog post about it for extra credit.

In order to see the exhibit, I needed to take an elevator from the lobby of the art museum inside Pope Joy Hall up to the second floor. As soon as I got out of the elevator, I saw the mad Russian monk, greeting me.

Rasputin. I read a biography about him, and I'm pretty certain this guy had supernatural powers. He also had Charles Manson eyes.

I also liked this one. It reminds me of Salvador Dali, my favorite painter after my sister.

I liked this one, since the camping guys remind me of my (Russian) ex-girlfriend's dad. He always likes to chill out by a fire. I see him maybe every six months, and half the time there is a fire burning outside, and all the time there is so much good food and good alcohol.

These were the three paintings I liked. Many of the other paintings seemed kind of depressing, which may have been the intention the (Soviet) artists were going for. Overall, I'm glad I quickly checked out the exhibit. I'm sort of culturally retarded, and culturally insensitive, and this kind of stuff is good for me to do every once in a while to try and grow.

Russian 202 Film Project

For my Russian 202 class, we had to make a short video about one of the videos we watched in class. I worked with Monica Perlzak, and we re-created a scene from this Russian movie, called Stilyagi, or "Hipsters."

Моника Пэрлзак и Брайн Стайнар Брайн: Наш фильм называется <<Стиляги.>> Действие фильма происходит в Москве. Мы снимали наши сцены у утиного пруда. Сначала, я играл стиляга, после этого я играл Мэлса. Mоника: Я играла Пользу. Новые слова в нашей сцене облава и опасность. Польза - Я люблю джаз! Мой самый любимый инструмент труба. Стиляг - Я тожа. Я играю на саксофоне! Хотите танцевать? Польза - Да! Я люблю танцевать с тобой. Стиляг - Ахх! Облава! Опасность! *погоня* Мэлс - Ты можешь идти? Польза - Ой! Больно. Мэлс - Вставай. Вставай! Польза - Это из-за тебя. Мелс - Сейчас я за ребятами схожу. Польза - Не надо. Мэлс - Вставай. Польза - Как тебя зовут? Мэлс - Мэлс. А тебя? Польза - Полина. Для друзей Польза. Мелс - Польза...почему Польза? *толчок* Польза - Теперь ты знаешь!

Новые Слова снимали - filmed у утиного пруда - by the duck pond погоня - chase толчок - shove опасность - danger облава - raid

Ночной дозор

(Russian Version of the Poster)

Без субтитров, я не понимаю ничего. Фильм называется <<Ночной дозор.>> Действие фильма происходит в Москве. Мне понравился этот фильм. Он о войне, свет против тьмы и как один человек сражается на стороне света. 

Glossary
дозор - watch 
субтитры - subtitles
против  - against
тьма - darkness
сражается на стороне света - fighting on the side of light

(English Version of the Poster)

Birthday - 31

This past March 6, I turned 31. I didn't really feel bad about growing older. Mostly, this seems to be because I feel like I am progressing in different physical, financial, and emotional goals. It doesn't seem to me like things are getting progressively worse, but rather progressively better. My handball game is the best it's ever been. Even if I didn't make as much money last year as I did as an employee, I am learning every day about sales, marketing, customer management, different types of start ups, as well as tons of new technical skills. PLUS, things have been going very well financially for 2014 so far.

My girlfriend, and my family, made my birthday fun and enjoyable. Lyric did an outstanding job on making my favorite dinner (sweet and sour chicken), blue Gatorade, well as a birthday cake.

I think it's nice when Lyric wears a pretty dress and makes me an awesome dinner. I appreciate it a lot. 

 She made me slippers which I can be seen wearing constantly.

Lyric give me a bunch of presents that I really needed! She gave me a set of glass bowls with Tupperware top that I am opening in the above picture...

... an organizer that contained small fasteners for my workshop...

...and the best present of fixing my road bike! I wrecked this road bike a few years ago, and was slowly cannibalizing it for parts for my other road bike. The road bike was stolen, and I'd been slowly rebuilding the bike. The hub was the last part I needed to replace, and she had it replaced for me!

 Here is a quick video of my cake. Unfortunately, Lyric stopped singing when she realized I was recording. She has a good voice!

The next weekend I was down in Silver City, helping my parents out with their Windows network. For my birthday, they gave me what every little boy always wanted - a robot friend! This was a Roomba 650, and it keeps my floors cleaner than they have ever been before. Basically, I never have to sweep or vacuum anymore.

Roomba 650

All in all, this was the most fun birthday I've had in a long time. Lyric goes to a lot of work, and is herself excited about many things, which makes them more fun in general.