All of a sudden I look up and the year is full – blocked out through the end of the year with a shattered image across the start of 2012 thats an overlay of about three major ‘possibilities’ and a host of permutations around all of those. The time left to my own choice suddenly [...]
Which in the sense of the French is I now have an apartment, phone, car, etc all properly logged in the system, regularised on direct debit etc. All thats missing is the high maintenance girlfriend, I’m sure she’ll turn up directly. Driving is a newish thing for me, certainly the whole lark of having a [...]
Guess I’m back, back in Europe. I’ve just about gotten past the wandering supermarkets giggling stage (because I’ve been spending every second night in the local one since I hit town). So far its been non-stop (where I haven’t deliberately turtled) because this is first a small town and second the big nexus for the [...]
Talking to colleague here – its the big ‘participation jamboree’ event thing which has nuked any notion of writing for near four days – I got roped into Chess which has just served to remind me why the chess I liked was coffee house chess. While discussing the inner machinations of the Monolith over some [...]
There was an OpEd piece noting that A One-Way Ticket to Mars could get volunteers and shouldn’t be discounted out of hand. I agree – most of my family back two generations went to the US – by the numbers, I’m actually one of the tiny Irish offshoot of a large American family. They weren’t [...]