Everyone keeps on asking me where I’m going to visit on this trip. I keep on telling you people, I have no idea! But that’s not exactly true. I do have a bit of an idea. Here are a few of my way points.
Infection Bonanza
I stumbled upon the “Infectious Diseases” section of my helpful Lonely Planet guide. I’m taking this book with me to the travel clinic tomorrow to check off the shot/pill that I need for each of them. I most certainly will not be letting a monkey bite me.
Blog Software Upgrade
I finally got around to doing a long-overdue upgrade of my blog software. Coupled with the addition of an anti-spam comment validator it wouldn’t surprise me if some issues arose. Please keep your eyes peeled for anything weird and let me know if things aren’t acting right.
3/20/08 Update: I cannot believe I waited as long as I did to enable the comment validator. I was getting between 30 and 150 spam comments a day. Because I wasn’t moderating comments daily, about once a week I would log on and have to read through 1,000 comments to see if one was from a valid poster. I logged in this morning 12 hours after the upgrade and there isn’t one single spam comment to deal with. Yeah!
Pre-planning (Or: Logistics)
I woke up this morning with my usual routine: brush my teeth, take a shower, a good ass scratch or two, on with the nice shirt and off to work. Along the way I realize something. Holy shit I own a round-trip ticket to a third-world nation full of mosquitos and malaria and hepatitis and penis fish and velociraptors and kinds of crap! And my plane leaves in 14 days. I’ve got a lot of work to do.
Anchors Aweigh!
Just today I purchased a round-trip ticket to Saigon (AKA Ho Chi Minh City.) I’m leaving on April 3 and coming back on April 30. What am I going to do out there? I have no earthly idea. But I’m going to find some trouble to get into.
More to come…
meep!
Many of you have already heard or seen the affectionate little stray that walked up to my home last summer. Here’s the story of her arrival, a couple pictures, and proper nomenclature.
SF Bound?
I’ve discussed with some of you my current search for a new place in SF. By no means have I decided for certain to move to the city, but looking around causes no harm so I figured I’d give it a try.
Tivo Series 3!
This past week I setup my new Tivo Series 3 DVR. This upgrade represents step two of a four-part revitalization of my A/V system. Step one was the amplifier I got last week. Three and four will be a new TV and high definition disc player, respectively. Obviously this last step will await the settling of the Blu-ray HD DVD war. But in the mean time, I am totally ecstatic about the feature set and quality delivered by my new Tivo box. Unfortunately getting such meant I’ve gone back to the corporate Beelzebub that it Comcast.
Pictures from 2007 Colorado Reunion
I finally got around to post-processing the 300 or so pictures I took in June during the 2007 MacLaren reunion. You can see the pictures here.
‘The Sopranos’ Is Over
Don’t even think about clicking the more button below if you haven’t yet seen the series finale. This topic will definitely spoil the ending.