So am booked for amerika from 7.Oct to 22.Oct. Flying into Seattle and rough plan is to visit Vancouver, Portland, Coos Bay, SanFran, Reno and drive back North then.
I’m not quite sure I’m supposed to leave the country while my work permit is being sorted, but the consultant lady said as long as I fly direct from Italy then I should be fine. So my only option was on Delta via JFK. fair enough. Cost a bit too much, but that’s how it goes I guess…
Holy crap! Is it august already?
So just to end the cliffhanger from last night…yes I took a beer down to Daniele. It wasn’t much of a chore…I had to walk about 200 meters. Hmmmm….I suppose I should be taking advantage of living this close to the sea.
I just had a beer while  he fished, but he ran out of worms, so being the resourceful lads that we are, we decided to catch a crab to use as bait. This was done with remnants of a worm still on a hook and a net…I’ve just observed that live crabs don’t make good bait. I assume they just crawl into a rocky space and hang out under the water…
Daniele is down at the beach fishing and waiting for a beer…to be delivered by yours truly…
Honestly dude is kind of a jerk, so I’m not sure if I will…and besides he never ever does anything for me 😉
This link below is for my mum who doesn’t really know what I do for work…actually I don’t do land stuff…or even actual GIS stuff anymore, but consider this my field…sorta…actually no, but it’s mainstream and easy to understand. So there ya go…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/geographic-information-systems-help-scholars-see-history.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp
So today I read “After Dark” from Murakami. Only took about 2 hours. I sat on my balcony and read. It was a bit warm to actually do anything. I’ve started a new book that is pretty good so far.
Friday night was the company work party…One of my favourite moments was standing in line for food and Simone dropped an Allen Ginsberg reference in english…WTF…seriously??? That was kinda cool.
Also I had 2 different colleagues offering up their daughters to me. Worth a laugh…I was told I need to find a wife before my contract expires so I can stay in Italy 😉
I finished two books last week. “The Black Book” by Orphan Pamuk. Translated from Turkish. It was a beautiful book. Nice prose. And Robopocalypse which has a gigantic font so I went through it very quickly. If one is following tech and robots it’s a great book. I recommend them both!
I’m not onto another Murakami book, which is great as always.
I haven’t gotten any emails lately about climate change. I guess cuz it’s historically warm or something…
I tried to use seldomly instead of occasionally last night…as in “I seldomly have a whiskey”. Instead of “I occasionally have a whiskey”. The whole premise of this entry was that I wasn’t sure if seldomly was a word…I see that WordPress is telling me that is it NOT…
So there you have it. Seldomly is NOT a word.
I’m glad we had this conversation!
I had Octopus twice on Thursday. In a soup at lunchtime and for dinner as well. I guess I’m sort of getting a taste for it. The Italians are fond of their seafood.
I think I felt a small earthquake tonight about 8:30. Just a small weird shaking…Noone in the street was screaming or anything, but I’ve been through a few small quakes. This is what it felt like.
Considering I’m about 1 meter above sea level I was hoping for a tsunami…alas…niente!
I saw a great pic today from the Tour de France. It’s of the riders near San Michel (I think I spelled Michel right?)….anyways…I’ve been there…One of my favourite places in France!
So I had a work lunch today, and as I’ve probably said before I don’t eat ribs because the amount of effort involved in eating ribs is not worth the little bit of meat that you get…it’s messy and like doing sport just to get a bit of meat.
So today as one of the appetizers (anti-pasti) they bring out these baby clams in the picture…There is tiny bits of meat in the clams, but each of these is about the size of a fingernail so you have to use both hands to get the bit of meat out…This is worse than ribs!
I think I’m just here to complain about tourists (that aren’t wearing bikinis)!
and…
the humidity!!!
and…
ironing!!!
I’m off to try and renew my work permit tomorrow…Hence the ironing comment…Must iron! 🙂
Some dude was wearing a t-shirt with a Voltaire quote on it…
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” – Voltaire
fine…it’s a fantastic quote, but I think it rather pushed up against the limit of what belongs on a t shirt…I had to stare at his belly as he passed me on the sidewalk…Really. I have better things to do than read you…I would rather be looking at your hot girlfriend or something. Â Stick with 2 or 3 word phrases on t shirts…
Maybe next time you can have your college thesis put onto a t shirt or something so I can glance and then decide that it’s not worth my effort.
Ok, now I feel better….I’ve never read Voltaire, but out of curiosity I found these…not bad:
More quotes by Voltaire
All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Common sense is not so common.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
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