Sunday school en español

Today at church the bishop announced that he had called a sister to teach a new Sunday School class in Spanish.

Due to the number of Spanish-speaking members our ward has at the moment (mostly from Ecuador), they decided to start a new class for them next year which will be taught in their native language.

Visiting my sister

This afternoon, Stella and I went to Pinneberg to visit my sister Ireen in the hospital. Stella was really anxious to see her first niece :)

I knew that the S3 only went to Pinneberg every 20 minutes on Sundays, so I looked up a good connection with a program so that we wouldn't have to wait too long anywhere. I was amused to see that the program suggested a connection with the R70 line -- the medium-distance trains which used not to be usable with tickets from the local public transport organisation. And it was 15 minutes quicker to change into that train in Hauptbahnhof (Central Station) than just staying in the S3 until Pinneberg! So we did that. (I was also amused to find that a connection directly to the bus stop nearest the hospital sent us via Schnelsen or Niendorf-Nord rather than Pinneberg, even though that's the closest S-Bahn station.)

So we got to Pinneberg and walked through the forest to the hospital. Fortunately, it was well signposted. ( Visiting-the-baby stuff )

We left after about an hour and a half. Missed the bus and the train :) but took the next one. Got home around 19:15.

Doctor Fun

OK, I had a go at writing a little script that'll screen-scrape the "current week" Doctor Fun page and produce an RDF file. I primed it with the last three weeks' worth so that there are fifteen items in the queue.

(This also means that my friends page now has fifteen huge Doctor Fun items, since they were all read in at once... part of the price you pay, I suppose.)

Have to see how things fare in the coming week, whether it correctly handles changing entries, adding entries one-by-one, and so on.

Also added an .htaccess file to ensure that *.rdf is treated as application/xml;charset=utf-8.

Oh, and in case someone else wants in on the fun: drfun. Still in alpha testing, as I said. Don't be surprised if things change. (On the other hand, don't be surprised if things break and nothing changes to get them un-broken again.) Don't publicise the feed yet, if you read this, since things aren't completely set up yet.