This will help me to remember what I've done in 2009.
01. What did you do in 2009 that you'd never done before?
Gave a speech at a wedding, backpacked around South America, true hallucinogens, came 2nd at a national 40k tournament, quit a job on ethical grounds, tried paintball, stood up to someone with a knife, dressed convincingly as a woman in ( Read more... )

I just discovered why my laptop curser always came up with jibberish: I had it set to translate anything it was hov ering over into spanish! Solution: Disable option.
Better Solution: Change Spanish to Latin!

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Also I shaved my beard and am basicly never not doing either work, travel or sleep or a combination thereof. Is this win Y/N?

I'm in the middle of cleaning a pan and suddenly the urge to update livejournal comes avalanching down upon me, so here I am with soapy fingers smattering wet cleaning fluid all over my laptop all for the sake of telling my future self, posterity, about diamonds. I can't goddamn stop thinking about diamonds. Why? I keep playing a lilly allen song ( Read more... )

Two events of note ( Read more... )

Home. As best as home can be aproximated for someone officialy having 'No Fixed Address,' I am home. In December of last year I put every material object I still cared about into storage and left Melbourne to drive across the Nullarbor. A month in Perth, another few weeks in Byron Bay, I returned briefly to Melbourne sleeping on couches to attend ( Read more... )

Quito is a city whose Old Town has been taken over by modern conveniences and yet served an amazingly delicious slow-cooked goat, and whose new Town has been utterly replaced by western tourism establishments, to the point everything here is in english and it has the nickname Gringolandia ( Read more... )

San Augustin is a pain to get to. I don't mean inconvenient or expensive, but litterally to arrive here by land you must endure a fair amount of physical discomfort. It's part of the cost, and serves to keep the tourist levels to a minimum despite the attractions. The trip shouldbe about 6 hours, and after 7.5 hours of hip-jarring bumps on a night ( Read more... )

Cartagena is desribed as the jewel city of south america, and my reaction when I first arrived in the lower old town was general agreement. We stumbled into a hostel and dumped our bags, being tired from a taxing bus trip and only ventured out that night to aquire cash and food. The next morning we did venture across the main road and into Old Town ( Read more... )

Our hike was eventful. The group was 10 gringos, with guides making it a total party of 13. it cost more than we thought, because a month ago the owner of the main tour company was killed by the FARC, and a few days before we left a guide was also shot by the same ner'dowells. 'Safety Tax', we assume, is covered in our inflated fee.
The first day ( Read more... )