clear as mud.....

ok, so i drove to yet another workshop in lousiville today......and listned to cd#3 no less than 3 times......and while some things are clearer.....say..the numbers 70-100...i had forgotten how one cyphered those.....other issues are still up in the air.....the narrator is somewhat unclear in her diction...it took me a while to figure out that she was saying haut to mean tall......because she saounded so much like oh....and i am used to hearing it as haute with a t sound at the end....ah well......i suppose that there are numerous ways to say anything in enlgish, so i cannot be surprised that there are so many ways to say the same thing en francais....recently a non-blood kin was visiting....and despite the early hour he held out his empty cupped-fist...and quipped it's 5:00 somewhere...i am sad to admit that with our lobby television tuned to country music channels i knew exactly what he meant....and fetched him a beer asap...i'd say toutes suites but i am not sure that is the correct spelling.....if worse comes to worse, i'll point and pay.....silently.....hopefully to will not come to that.......