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…