This is just skipping ahead ten months from previous part of the Apinautica. I think it can be more or less summed up in the one line in text here that it was back to the mundane. There was one really interesting event in that time period in which I was involved in the at-sea rescue of (another vessel's) man-overboard whose life was in serious ( Read more... )

Continuing right along with this narrative. Once again LJ Idol both gave me motivation to get the next bit posted, and a theme. And in fact the theme was once again fortuitous -- "uncanny valley." Normally referring to creepy almost-lifelike dolls, I think it perfectly applies to what is going on here on the deeper level than sightseeing, facing a ( Read more... )

   It poses an interesting problem going through trying to adapt writing you've already written, rather than building something up from scratch. Especially when you suspect what you should be doing is paring it down. But this sentence is already written and you like it! It makes you really think about things. Especially with a travelogue, there's a ( Read more... )

   A'ight, so, I've been wicked busy. I just signed the contract for my third simultaneous job. It's not that I'm desperate for money so much as all three were too plum to pass up (Editor of the national beekeeping magazine, Senior [extension] Officer (entering public service two pay levels above normal entry!), and now I will teach at Melbourne ( Read more... )

I've once again been too crazy busy to post the next installment of this even though it was already written. My intention had been to post all of the chapter in weekly sections in the hope that the reader here might have at least some semblance of context-within-the-chapter. Ah well. Most recent distraction on top of my other things was teaching ( Read more... )

   Okay here's he next installment of the "Apinautica." Recall our protagonist had gotten in a fight with his Turkish girlfriend and set out on his own.


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   I spent at least an hour editing an article someone had submitted for the magazine the other day, saved it as a word file, and thereafter I haven't been able to open it (all programs claim its not a word file, but it's not anything else??). This reminded me that it was that kind of shenanigans which had driven me to edit documents in the browser ( Read more... )

Its been some time since I posted the next installment of the memoir. Last time I posted the beginning of the Egypt chapter. This is the second of three installments of it. This one will have a lot about beekeeping, but also notes about pyramids and helpful suggestions for cat names :3


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It's been awhile since I posted another segment of this, so here's the next one! Where we left off Our Protagonist had just left Nigeria for Egypt

Chapter 8 - Egypt
October 27th, 2009, Egypt - I walked to Egypt, with three friends, the first time. It was only a few dozen meters from Israel through the Eilat/Taba border control point. On the ( Read more... )

Continuing The Apinautica, this overlaps a little bit with what I already posted (the first four paragraphs)


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