| Common People |
[Jun. 2nd, 2007|07:32 pm] |
Joe Jackson is cool. Ben Folds is cool. Will Shatner is a window into the black side of an event horizon. God bless them every one.
We're getting by. |
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| So yeah... |
[May. 26th, 2007|01:14 pm] |
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Right, then. So Lisa arrived this morning @ 0700 and will be with until next Saturday. I can't guarantee that I'll be posting much between now and then, what with the working and the exploring a mysterious European capital with my wife and all. Talk amoungst yourselves. |
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| Ramble ramble ramble |
[May. 20th, 2007|04:21 pm] |
Today marks two notable milestones for me. First, I have been in Sweden for exactly three weeks. I have seven more to go before returning home. Lisa comes to visit for a week starting next Saturday and, suffice it to say, I am looking forward to that. Today also marks the 35th anniversary of my glorious entrance into this realm. All praises and glory be. On this day, in the wee morning that the old folk used to call the witching hours, my dear Mother (blessed be her soul) unleashed upon the world that child which would become me. I don't think she knew what she was getting into. Please don't hold it against her. She really is a lovely woman.
( More with the rambling please ) |
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| I know I keep threatening.. |
[May. 15th, 2007|08:57 pm] |
..but I still haven't gotten the big "what the hell has Sam been doing for the last three weeks" post done. It's just so damned daunting to start. I mean, there's the story about the fucked-up wiring in the video monitor for the in-flight movie on the way over, and the story about the six hour layover in Charles De Gualle because the French are fucking morons, and the bit about me getting into Stockholm on 40+ hours of waking time, and that only gets me through day 2, so it's all very difficult.
( More with the threatening... ) |
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| New pictures |
[May. 13th, 2007|10:58 pm] |
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I've moved the Stockholm photos over to Flickr . I was not fond of Photobucket's interface. There are maybe 10-15 new photos uploaded in addition to the original sets. I took some shots walking back through Gamla Stan today. |
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| Two weeks down |
[May. 11th, 2007|09:21 pm] |
Eight to go. Jason and Dan want to go clubbing tonight. The single boys want to go look at the single girls. I want to turn a latch handle and walk into my garden and hear Isaac paw-swimming on the door. I want to turn off the lights at 10:00 on a Friday night and fall asleep with my wife.
I will not go out tonight. |
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| Some pictures and a map |
[May. 6th, 2007|06:39 pm] |
I'm going to try to finish a journal on the last week this afternoon. It's somewhat daunting to start. The flight from Atlanta seems like a month ago already. It has been a week.
As a(nother) placeholder, here are some photos I've taken this week, most of them this weekend. Of course I am baffled by the LiveJournal embedded image interface. So as I am want to do, I will ignore it and hack my own solution together instead.
You can see the photos by clicking HERE. From the image that launches click BACKWARDS through the album in order to view things in some semblance of chronoligical order. I may go through and edit things into more managable "albums" later. 'Til then this is what you get.
Also, interested parties can go HERE and track my itinerant wanderings (like a rat in a maze.) If you're so inclined.
Okay. More later, in witty, mentally engrossing narrative form. Or spotty link-ridden modern "blogger journalism." One of the two. Depends on how I feel after dinner.
*UPDATE: I'm directing my mother to this journal as a way of keeping up with her baby boy's travels across the globe. Try to avoid mentioning the the debauchery of my college years in the comments. Thanks. |
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| Well, I'm here |
[May. 1st, 2007|10:12 pm] |
At some point I will 1) adjust to being +6 hours on my body's circadian rhythms, stop being exhausted and 2) stop working 12 hours per day (on Swedish national holidays no less) and post something interesting. I have a couple of photos I've taken of Stockholm with more to come over the weekend I think.
For now, I am firmly embedded in the Norse homelands and trying to decipher Swedish signs for the underground.
More to come... |
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| This is interesting |
[Apr. 26th, 2007|04:00 pm] |
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In 2003 (?) the BBC aired a series called "Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief" narrarated by Jonathan Miller (all around brilliant guy -- Wiki him.) It's the antithesis of American television as it mostly involves various thinkers -- scientists, philosophers, playwrights, etc. -- sitting around talking about religion and why they have no use for it. I mention this because, though you won't find any mention of it on the PBS website, PBS is actually showing the series starting May 4 (in the slote where Bill Moyers normally runs.) It seems notable to me that an American broadcaster is actually showing a series on atheism as something other than "what them God-forsaken heathens of Europe do." If you can't make the viewing (say you're going to be stuck in Sweden that day) you can watch the episodes here: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=history+of+disbelief&hl=en |
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| Things I've done today... |
[Apr. 26th, 2007|02:46 pm] |
1. Participated in first round of conference calls in prep for Ericsson on Monday.
2. Went to see the doctor for overdue blood pressure checkup.
3. Lost traction on wet pavement trying to stop before riding headlong into the truck that stopped suddenly on the ride back from doctors.
4. Maintained control without rear traction well enough to guide bike into soft shoulder with the cool, soft grass.
5. Laid bike down in cool soft grass.
Things I have not done today:
1. Ran headlong into suddenly stopped truck and died.
Many thanks to mystery lady Mindy who stopped and helped me dig the bike out of the ditch. Some broken faring and a bent but functioning gear shifter and a bruise on my leg is a happy day considering the alternative.
I was probably going to fast for conditions and was distracted thinking "why do I still ride all the way to Alpharetta to see a doctor -- in the rain?" The car in front of the truck was turning left across traffic and the truck must not have seen him until late because he hammered the brakes pretty suddenly.
I did not die. Yay, not dying! This incident combined with Therkleson's run-in with Roswell Road motorist ladies Monday suggests to me that this is a dangerous week to ride a motorcyle. |
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| The Greatest Showdown In the History of Everything, part 43098 |
[Apr. 19th, 2007|02:50 pm] |
As most of you know, I am a baseball fan of some magnitude. I know things about baseball you do not know. I know things about baseball your fathers do not know. I know things about baseball that baseball does not know. It is as such -- baseball fan, baseball guru, baseball messiah -- that I enter this weekend with a heavy heart. Because you won't be able to take a shit within 100 yards of baseball this weekend without having to hear -- again -- about the Greatest Rivalry In The History Of Every Universe That Ever Historied A Rivalry, about the Biggest Showdown of Sporting Giants To Ever Grace The World, about the motherfucking Yankees vs. the motherfucking Red Sox, as if this were any more crucial or important a set of games than say, a late April matchup between the Brewers and the Reds, or the O's and the Devil Rays, or the Marlins and the Phillies.
Fuck. Me.
Despite what Ken Burns may have led you to believe, they play baseball south of Jersey and west of Buffalo. Really. And there are better series than this to watch this weekend.
If you're a baseball fan. |
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| I have new pictures |
[Mar. 30th, 2007|02:24 pm] |
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What you can't tell from these pictures is that I'm not wearing any pants. |
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