I was reading a blog maintained by the husband of a friend and thought he was noting an upcoming “British Art-Rock Group Conference”. So naturally, I thought “well, people will study anything – why not a conference about Jethro Tull, Yes, Caravan and Renaissance?” Turns out it’s a “British ROCK-ART conference.” Man! Is there even such a thing as whole-word dyslexia? Because sometimes, I just wonder about that thing in my head that passes for a brain. So by way of apology there’s a link to David’s rock-art photos from Mesa Verde under the photo. I make no apologies for…
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I’ve been getting a number of hits all year on an entry from our Britain trip that tells about visiting Westminster Abbey in London and about the tombs and monuments of various royals, literary figures, and scientists that are found there. In short, I was getting a hell of a lot of hits on the phrase “Isaac Newton Tomb” – famous scientist and historical honorary member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. An online chum who claims to be a dead mathematician and philosopher would also qualify if someone would only nominate him. Don’t be fooled by the…
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As US coast-to-coast crimewaves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity. Undeterred, a couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible. Starting in the liberal state of California, they hope to evade the attention of local police officers when they ride a bike in a swimming pool and curse on a crazy-golf course. In the far more conservative – and landlocked – state of Utah, they…
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Here’s a picture of our first Geocaching success story, Herzilein. We took him (her?) out to dinner at Hanafuda, then went to the village of Hana a couple of nights, went to the store, and finally said farewell somewhere on the south coast of Maui. I’m currently reading up on the whole geocache game, hunt, boondoggle, or what-have-you at Geocache-U. For instance, most geocachers have to print out the information, but there’s a way to download the page information to a Palm – this method is pretty complicated, but might work better than the way we were doing it in…
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So we drove up to the top of Haleakala, the House of the Sun, on Maui. And then we noticed that we had 1/16th of a tank of gas and we were 20 miles from the nearest gas station. So went back down Haleakala, the House of the Sun, in neutral. Whee! And singing the Adventurer’s Song. Typically, we bust out singing when things are going really, really well on a trip and we’re feeling a little chuffy about it, or things are not going very well and we’re trying to raise our spirits for being goofs on parade. We…
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I have had 34 years’ worth of mutts and all but one of them is gone. Their ashes sit in nice little cans or pots on a bookshelf. Every once in a while, one of the containers catches my eye and I find myself saying, “That was a great dog,” even about the one who was crazy as an outhouse rat. The first one, who went to live with the mailman when I moved to Russia long ago, seemed to understand nothing but peeing and chewing up apartment quarter round, which he meticulously removed and diligently placed in piles. He…
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Talking on the phone just now with some guy who was booking a trip to Las Vegas. He was on the hunt for a cheap sleep, so we checked different choices. I noted that the account’s “preferred” hotels in Vegas were a mixed bag, including a chain whose nam is frequently translated from Spanish to English as “next to Denny’s.” We discussed the availability and rate at this property, and he mumbled along while I waited for the computer to catch up with real-time rates: “I’ve heard that hotel is a little…” I jumped in to cut him off. “This…
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February 5, 2005 – Maui And yes, we made it safely to Maui and pretty much went straight to Maui Tacos for some takeout and went across the street to watch the sunset at the park. Most days since then we’ve tried to make time to watch the sunset. And eat. A lot. UPDATE: Chicago We went to Maui Tacos one other time and they were just as good. We also went to a bunch of other new restaurants this time, missed some of our old favorites, and generally ate very, very well. Even the time we ate nothing but…
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February 5, 2005 And we’re about to board this bird and take off for Maui nonstop, where we’ll be for two weeks. This entry won’t go “live” until our return, however. UPDATE: Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Blog And so, we’ve returned. I’ve got a boatload of photos to go over and update, including a bunch still in my camera on a very large compact flash card (not as large as David’s card, but big enough for my uses). The flight return was not a simple non-stop, so we had a short layover in Los Angeles last night. Arrived in…
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Whilst wandering around in a daze I happened across a hippie shop selling “Nag Champa,” an incense used in incantatin’ by snuggs apparently. I ordered that book that Gus has written but it won’t arrive until around April 7 or so. This entry will mystify my sisters, but them’s the breaks.