This weekend we drove to Padre Island National Seashore to go camping. This may not sound stupendous, perhaps like a nice weekend out of the city. You might say, “Oh, camping! I love camping!” You would say this because you are the type of person whose parents probably took them camping every summer at least [...]
Back from NY late last night after a successful conference. It feels good to leave on a high note. Made limited use of brain today–breakfast, convention hotline, lunch with M. & B., long nap, dinner.
Spent 4 hours today manning the convention hotline, answering questions about how to choose delegates, where the convention is, and incredibly [...]
Picked up sign at 1211 Ave of Americas. Kinkos appears to be a front — workers in purple shirts asking customers if they need any help, but when customers say yes, the worker walks away to do something else entirely unrelated and to ask another customer if they’ve been helped yet. Sign is in good [...]
In New York. For some reason coming to New York does not inspire me. The city overwhelms with all of its tall buildings and short people. Are there really this many short people in the world or just a concentration of them here? Disappointed that none of the new podcasts or music I’ve downloaded lately [...]
Some future package tour ideas:
Take a cruise–a pirate cruise. Be an authentic pirate, plundering the seas and taking hostages for ransom. (Cruiseline not responsible if you are taken hostage.)
Rent a Model T from the 1920s and drive around as if it is the 1920s–wear the clothes, speak the lingo, do the jitterbug, be the Great [...]
There is a Tyson Chicken commercial where the daughter stands up on a chair and tells her mom thanks for feeding them this great antibiotic-free chicken that shows she cares. Then the dad stands up on the chair and says, “When you’re not here, I make them frozen waffles.”
That was my family growing up.
Watched elephants dance in Sri Lanka
Annually asked everyone at Thanksgiving dinner what they are most grateful for
Seen the hall that inspired the dining room in Harry Potter films
Moved so many times I’ve lost count
Danced at an underground nightclub in Moscow after dinner and vodka shots at a Georgian restaurant
Had a relationship with an older man [...]
