I am in the Vancouver airport, on my way back to Boston. I'll sleep in my own bed tonight, and fight to get back to East Coast time tomorrow. Joy ( Read more... )

I am currently enjoying the internet hospitality of the Garden Cafe in Haines, Alaska.

The cruise goes well. I had too much to drink on Monday night, and thus have sworn off booze for a few days.

And now, i look up a bunch of stuff and answer email.

I am currently sitting in a laundromat in Fairbanks, Alaska. We left Denali National Park this morning, after enjoying 4 days camping in the park. Truly, if you have the option of going to Denali, stay in the Teklanika campground - you'll have to stay for 3 days at least, but it's entirely worth it. In the last 3 days, I've seen a number of ( Read more... )

I'm still trying to figure out where the tube to my camelback and where my wet-weather shell is, but otherwise I'm mostly packed for my trip out to the tundra. As the kids say, w00t ( Read more... )

http://www.nesei.org/

This is the organization my grandparents have been involved with since a number of Sudanese refugees came to Burlington in mid-2001. The organizations first secondary school, in Southern Sudan, just opened. Yay.

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You are in a mall when zombies attack. You have ( Read more... )

My socks came Friday of last week - I completely forgot to mention it.  I am officially out of the game.

The socks I'd sent off to England got recieved yesterday, so while dead, I still logged one kill.  I wanted to make 1 kill, and that's what I've managed.  Until next year. 

The socks are done. They are getting in the mail off to sheffield tomorrow.

Now, I see when my socks are arriving from CO. We'll see if I live to see another round.

So yesterday, I did not get as far through the foot as I wanted: I had silks in the morning (and I'm doing the double foot-lock, splits, and then the split roll up, as well as the single stranded flippy thing. Trust me, it's cool.), and then went for a bit of lunch with Mr. Marz, came back, and spent some quality time with him. After that, the ( Read more... )