This is partly repeating a comment prompted by a recent post by juleskeLike many people I was felt a bit of anger at the US election result. "How can 60 million people be so dumb?" was an actual headline on one of our tabloid newspapers over here and it wasn't too far away from summing up the feelings of a lot of people. I truly could not understand why a ( Read more... )

Paris is a strange old place. The best way we could find to describe it is that we both liked everything IN Paris very much, but Paris itself felt very unfriendly overall. It's probably very arrogant to expect things to be in English, but when you have place like the Louvre you did feel like it wouldn't have hurt them too much to post an English ( Read more... )

So anyway... we went on a four-day vacation to Paris this past weekend ( Read more... )

There may be some people out there still reading so I thought I'd take a few minutes to say 'Hi' to everyone who I haven't said 'Hi' to personally for a while ( Read more... )

I just had a very amusing flashback to a childhood memory that I'm sure I hadn't remembered for 10-15 years or more. I went to use the bathroom at work, and somone had pee'd but hadn't bothered to flush. Yuk, etc, and I thought "Why wouldn't someone just flush the damn toilet?" and then I suddenly remembered ( Read more... )

Someone asked me if I'd been to Tours for a Magic event in the past. I couldn't remember until I'd thought about it for a few minutes, but once I did lots of good memories of the event soon resurfaced. Struck me that I probably should know where Magic has taken me over the years so here, to aid my memory as much as anything else, is the list ( Read more... )

So we've both just returned from Canada at last. Got tired of waiting for Julie to come home so eventually gave up and went out there to be with her for a couple of weeks. Had a great time doing lots of holiday stuff: Casino, theme parks, mini-golf, etc. Whilst at a theme park I talked Julie and another of our friends into going on the "Xtreme ( Read more... )

Julie is away in Canada at the moment so things are very quiet here. Unfortunately the administrative staff at the company that Julie started working for last September are incompetent. It turns out they have never actually gotten around to sorting out her work visa for them. This means, if she came home right now, she'd likely be refused entry to ( Read more... )

This first story was originally more detailed but two sentences in it had already bored me half to death and I honestly didn't think I could make it to the end. To cut it short ( Read more... )

My darling girlfriend has introduced me to BBC Radio 4 recently (ish). On her many travels she has to have something to make the long journey's interesting and this is her radio station of choice. It's surprisngly good. It's mostly news, politics, current affairs and interesting stuff. Obviously I must be getting old when I prefer political ( Read more... )