Adjusting the temperature It's pretty cold here. I feel cold. You seem to be cold. What degrees is the thermostat set on? Before leaving I always set the thermostat at some degrees lower. May I adjust the temperature higher? I have set it on 22 degrees. Is it OK? I can switch on the radiator if you want. No, thanks, I feel hot as it is.

Random sentences - Since January I've changed my lifestyle. - Since January I've been cutting out sugar. - I've been taking more exercise for two months. - I swear by getting up early. - I swear by Aspirin as a cure for a cold. - Before my work I had been at home with my children five years long. - On Sundays we go to church. - Back when I went to school, I was spending 3 hours a day commuting. - I don't really have time for listening to music any more.

My conference diet When I travel abroad because of an international conference, my institute pays me daily allowance. In such cases, most of the time I eat very little in order to save a little money. If I followed the rules, I would use the shared kitchen instead of my hotel room, but I'm not social enough for this. Last time, bounding for home back, when I arrived at the station, I wanted at last to eat a "normal" lunch, but the train reached the station too early, so I had to throw out the rest. Fortunately, these events do not take long, otherwise I would lose some weight.

Random thoughts 1 - Yesterday evening I took down our Christmas tree because of its falling leaves. I put the ornaments and the lights back into a box. - What you said gave me food for thought. But I also have my fair share of obstacles. I am not able to react on a fly right now. - Don't believe that he is lazy. Take my word for it, he works extremely hard! - Take my word for it, he isn't the same man as he was before. He is completely changed. He helps me a lot and I'm very thankful for him for everything he does for the children. I think I must go back to my work...

My first notebook in English I think that I work better if I jot down everything I've done, so I decided to keep a notebook. Since I work not only in my workplace, but also at home, I write this notebook on my computer in a file, and upload it in a cloud so that I can continue my work, wherever I am. First I tried to write in Hungarian, but my editor (TeXmaker) had encoding-problems with the special Hungarian characters. It is, although, not a problem if I try to write everything in English... The structure of my notebook will be the following: I try to register all steps on a daily basis, so every sections mean a single workday. As I have more projects simultaneously, the different ones will be indicated in different subsections. I mean "all steps" literally: my greatest enemy is oblivescence, so if I want to keep all my tasks up to date, I must jot down not only what happened or what I read in an article, but even the different file-operations also (copying, renaming, etc.). It helps me a lot, when a few days drop out, and try to seek in the directories, or try to guess, what boots the files to. Pull for me that my English records will be more and more better!