More Esperanto

So Duolingo* is pretty good at drilling and introducing new vocabulary, but absolute crap at explaining stuff? As in, they just plain don't. I had some limited prior knowledge of Esperanto from trying a couple of different courses previously, and that's helped a bit? Like, I'm pretty okay with marking plurals and direct objects and stuff.

But Esperanto also has two forms of the word "of", and Duolingo has so far been absolutely zero assistance in helping me figure out which one to use when.

Just a few sentences on theory or grammar to accompany lessons, that's all I ask! And you can even skip those if all you're introducing is new nouns!


Edit: Mnemonic created! The "a" in "da" refers to amount. The "e" in "de" is for, uh, "everything else" 9_9 Well, if it works...

* The app. I am now checking out the website version, though!

A few work things

Me at work today, adding the date to things: Huh, it's April 11th. 4-11. I guess today is going to be very informative!

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I ended up staying a little late today (and by "a little" I mean "only one-and-a-half hours"), but it worked out reasonably well in my favor. As I was eating lunch, the person in charge of our storeroom came into the employee lounge with a 20lb box of frozen yakisoba noodles. Turns out they'd been delivered by mistake probably at least a year ago, and were more than a year past their "best by" date, but had been in the freezer since they'd been delivered. Storeroom person wanted to get rid of them to make more room in the freezer (which is packed full and then some, let me tell you!), and a few of us nabbed 5lb bags of noodles to take home, including yours truly :D

Storeroom person went on to say there were another 40lbs of noodles in the freezer, and could she get rid of them, and if so, how; again, they're still perfectly good to eat, we just can't legally serve them. I volunteered to check with our local food rescue operation that my dad volunteers with, and they were very enthusiastic about the noodles! I made the delivery myself, since I was done at work for the day, and all of us were quite pleased to see the noodles going to feed people directly rather than to the compost. (We are proud composters at my workplace, but we're in the hospitality industry for a reason. Or I am, at least, and I wouldn't be surprised if that mindset rubbed off on more than a few of my coworkers. I can't think of one of them who likes food waste.)

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Sunday, by contrast, was miserable. I ended up working twelve hours (four hours past my scheduled off time, in contrast with today), all by my lonesome, and drove home in the snow. I may yet write a more detailed post about my Sunday experiences, but for now I'll just say that I'm glad today was better.