29

Mar

hahn…bloody ryanair.

Tomorrow I travel Hahn. I hate hahn. Probably more than it deserves. It’s built up some kind of mythical anti-status in my head. It’s probably not as bad as I think it oughta be, but…I still hate you Hahn…and I hate you most of all RyanAir.

I hate having to pay for “priority boarding” because you have no assigned seats. I hate your little league airports. I hate being offered scratch tickets. I hate your baggage policy. I hate the way the stewardesses never have change when I order some crappy food or drink. I hate that people who fly RyanAir clap upon landing. I hate your bus service. I hate your low prices. I hate that I keep flying with you. You Jerks!
I hate that you’ve taken away any magic that was ever involved with flying…

It’s sort of like if O’reilleys had 2€ cheeseburgers or something…there would never have been a vow if O’reilleys had 2€ cheeseburgers.
I think O’reilleys is the only thing that will be open this Friday…
I haven’t had a cheeseburger in months…I want a cheeseburger.

I really like the kebap place at Hahn. mmmm kebaps in germania….mmmmmm. Jerks! Shiny red ball…

Check back tomorrow when I update to tell you how much I hate RyanAir…I’ll probably do that whilst waiting for the flight and while I’m on the stupid bus.

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28

Mar

oooh…guess where I’ll be in two days?

yup 😀

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28

Mar

For the Vespa owners…

Last night I think someone knocked over my Vespa. When I went out this morning to go for a ride there was a bit of gas and/or oil underneath it,  it was kind of at a slightly different angle than where I had parked it at. My first thought was that someone stole some gas or something, but there was still gas in it (less then there should have been).
I couldn’t get it started, but noticed when I tried to start it that there was lots of liquid coming out of the exhaust.
I left it for a few hours and went back. Thinking that if it had been tipped it might be flooded in some way (gas in the wrong place). Anyways went out a few hours later and got it started. Went for a ride and everything seems OK, but it’s running rougher.

After it did start I ended up with about a liter of gas and oil underneath it (as it was spitting out gunk for about 20 seconds after I started it…that’s not embarrassing at all 🙂

Anyways question for the Vespa owners (I guess that means Matteo and Piero). Does the oil and gas “unmix” when it’s not being run? I ask because there definitely seemed to be two consistencies (viscosities might be the better word) to the liquid coming out. Is that just oil from the gas tank or is it possible there is oil from another location (gear oil from transmission, crank case etc) that I need to check and refill?

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27

Mar

Movies to sleep too…

David Lynch movies are just about perfect to put on during naptime. Inland Empire came up the other night. I have that movie but I think I only ever watched about 10 minutes of it.
Today I made it to about the 1 hour mark before falling asleep.

My reaction to every Lynch movie ever: ummmm….what….

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25

Mar

more boring health care talk…and useful italian talk

Cerume=earwax
Cerbottana=blowgun

I really like Cristinas dedication in trying to reach me to inform me of the words for ear wax. She called Luca, Massimo and then Matteo just to track me down…and tell me….ceruma!!!
That’s valuable 😉

The strangest thing I find about the “pro-lifers” reaction to the health care bill is that they were the ones repeating comments about ”Death panels” and “rationing” as a reason to oppose the bill a few months ago. Nevermind that those things are happening with private insurance companies already…but the implication with complaining about Death panels and rationing is that the government is going to put a price tag on a person, and thus choose not to treat a sick person because it’s too expensive (again already happening with private insurance companies).

Now this bill will save lives (you can dispute the last paragraph, but I’m not sure this sentence can be disputed) and many people who claim to be “pro-life” are opposed to it. If you’re a Libertarian and you want to oppose the bill for reasons that are true to your beliefs that’s one thing, but to be “pro-life” and oppose this bill makes you a hypocrite in my eyes (I’m not sure Libertarianism and pro-lifeism are compatible).

If you can’t see that this bill will save lives but you’re “pro-life” then I will assume you are not thinking for yourself and are just in fact repeating what the moving picture screen people are telling you to think. I’m surprised more dems havn’t tried to sell up the morality and religiosity of health reform.

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23

Mar

I’m not sure how I feel about this whole “being busy” at work thing :D

I can’t believe it’s Tuesday night already. Lots to do with the boss gone this week, and I’ve been fairly productive except for those times when I have to upload multiple files to various offices and rip ISOs. Those are rather unproductive moments (cuz my PC dies a bit)…Though uploading files to Russia is going to take all week I think. hmmmph…Russia. I want to go to Russia.
Apparently I still would need a visa, and I suppose to get one I’d have to go to some embassy somewhere. I love embassies…Embassies are cool!

Flying to Frankfurt next Tuesday 😀 Getting excited for this…weird. It kind of feels like I’m going “home”.
…I’m practicing my “lawnmower” and my “crash n burn”…Neither of which I’ve busted out on Italy yet. Hopefully we can get the “lawnmower/crash n burn” in at some point 🙂

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21

Mar

uniforms on bikes…

I just discovered that riding on the weekend has it’s own unique set of obstacles…Italians on bikes. I’ve concluded that I get no respect  because I’m not wearing a spandex uniform.
To do…

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20

Mar

I’m going to start calling him Burlesque Tony.

This is an english translation of a mail I got in Italian. I think it’s anti Berlusconi…ma io sono americano e non capisco…

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Hi,

I am a citizen dell’Italianistan. I live in Milan two in a palace built by the Prime Minister. Jobs in Milan in a company whose shareholder is merely the Prime Minister. Even the car insurance which I go to work the Prime Minister as the Prime Minister has assured that manages my retirement accounts. I stop every morning to buy the paper, which owns the Premier. When I go to the bank, go to the President of the Council. In the afternoon, I leave work and go shopping in a hypermarket to the Prime Minister, where I buy products made by subsidiary companies by the Prime Minister. In the evening, if I decide to go to the movies, I go into a room of the circuit properties of the Premier and watch a film produced and distributed by a company of the Prime Minister (these films also benefit from public funds bestowed by the government led by President Council). If the evening I stay home, watch TV often the Prime Minister, with decoders from companies of the Prime Minister, where films made by companies of the President of the Council are constantly interrupted by commercials advertising agency of the President Council. Especially watch the match results, because I root for the team in the Premier owns. When not watching TV the Prime Minister, I look at the RAI, whose leaders were nominated by MPs that the Prime Minister has appointed. So I’m tired and a little surfing on the internet, with providers of the Prime Minister.

But if I did not really want TV or surf the internet, read a book, whose publisher is owned by the Prime Minister. Of course, as in all democratic countries and liberal Italianistan is also the President of the Council shall make the laws that are approved by Parliament, where many of the deputies of the majority are employees and lawyers of the Prime Minister, who governs in my exclusive interest !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fortunately!

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19

Mar

Jesus was a communist.

congrats america…you might be about to go from being the only first world country without (semi) universal health care to having the worst health care system in the first world. Wait…might be an invalid argument….let me rephrase.
You went from having one of the better second world health care systems to having the worst first world health care system…
Baby steps…
You embarrass me.

A bill that reduces the deficit AND saves lives via the private sector…Thank you republicans for standing up for your principals and shepherding this through.
Anyone that calls the Pres a socialist is an ignorant idiot, and should instantly lose all credibility…Only in america.
This is a republican bill…This is Romneycare. This is Nixoncare. This is a disgrace.

I can’t believe there hasn’t been a bigger push for proportional representation (at a state level) via signatures. Someone wasted a crisis.

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18

Mar

Word of the day…

pollice verde=green thumb
I’m endeavouring to learn a new word every day. My plants are dying.

There’s a free kebap in the office, but I have a 1 kebap per day rule 😀

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