Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:

My wife was the world traveler. She would bring souvenirs home. It's long
gone but for some reason I thought about the balalaika she brought from
the USSR recently. When I picked her up at the airport her first words
were 'Take me to MacDonalds'. Soviet food was nourishing but she'd seen
enough piroshki to last for a while.

On 2025-02-12, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Ahh... where you able to stop her from travelling? If so, what is the
trick? ;)
>
Never been to russia, but an acquaintance went to celebrate new years
there some years ago. Orange juice was super expensive, but vodka was
almost free.

My second wife dropped out of college to become an au pair for a US
embassy family in Moscow; she really wanted to see if the Russians were
as evil as the cold war propaganda was making them out to be. Along the
way, she met and married a Russian artist with a master's degree in icon
painting and restoration. Eventually she brought him ack to California,
and after his parents (an orthodox priest and his wife) joined them,
they divorced. 15 years later, she had married me and we had a baby. Her
best friend persuaded her to lead a tour of friends and family to the
places she had visited with her husband back in the day. We spent a week
in Yalta, then a couple of days each in Tashkent, Samarkand, Tblisi,
Moscow and Leningrad. Very interesting. Yalta was a gated-off resort for
the elite, but even there, the grocery stores had mostly empty shelves.