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• Things I've noticed - April 10, 2008

  Well I have been here in Brno, Czech Republic for a couple days now. I’ve made it in to the office every day this week, wandered around town a bit, and even navigated the grocery store. The only significant troubles so far were on Tuesday where I decided it would be a good idea to walk to the office (actually, the smallest coin I had was 50 Kr and the tram pass machine didn’t take it), took a couple wrong turns, and got lost. It didn’t turn out too bad since I saw a lot of new stuff and in the end basically ended up walking around in a big circle back to my apartment. After that I was able to buy a drink and use the change for tram fare.

• And I'm here - April 7, 2008

  Sometime around 10pm Sunday night, I got to the office apartment in Brno, which was a quick 30 hours after leaving my apartment in Nashua. Sure that includes six hours of time difference, but it’s still a very long trip. As I write this it’s 4:25PM local time on Monday. Who knows what time it is where you are. There was some confusion at the office as to whether I made it or not so this post is mostly directed at them to let them know I’m still alive.

• Planes, busses, and more busses - April 5, 2008

  Today, I leave for a long work trip to Brno, Czech Republic. This is my first time flying outside of the continent so it’s about equal parts exciting and terrifying. While I’m looking forward to being over there and seeing some place totally new, I’m not really looking forward to the two bus rides and two plane rides I will be experiencing over the next eighteen hours. I would say that my flight is through KLM, but due to the maze of twisty code shares I am actually flying on Northwest. Whatever. As long as they serve some drinks I should be able to eventually fall asleep. I arrive sometime around 8pm local time tomorrow, which works out to 2pm Eastern. We’ll see how my body handles that.

• New rule - March 25, 2008

  Any trip under a couple miles from home will now be done by bike. This includes the grocery store, liquor store, Home Depot, homebrew store, post office, and so forth.

• Day 29: page the end - November 29, 2007

  Well, I finished the book. Actually I finished on Monday since I had a whole lot of spare time sitting around the Cleveland and Philly airports, not getting home. Hooray for me or something.

• Day 10: page 303 - November 10, 2007

  I’ve slowed down quite a bit as lots of other things have come up recently, but I’m still on pace to finish by the end of the month. Even with all the breaks, I’ve averaged about the same speed as with Gravity’s Rainbow. I guess I’m not slacking off as much as it feels like.

• Day 4: page 154 - November 4, 2007

  Does the dialog from this book remind anyone else of the dialog from Final Fantasy? You know: choppy, repetitive, lots of meaningless tangents.

• Day 3: page 80 - November 3, 2007

  I didn’t read yesterday, so today I’m trying to do twice the reading to catch up. I’m writing this before doing the second half of the reading to get my current thoughts out, before anything new happens.

• Now with more buzzwords! - October 31, 2007

  I’ve set up an RSS aggregator for the new Death Pact. For those of you not in the know, an RSS feed is where you get website updates automatically sent to you from time to time. An aggregator takes a ton of those feeds and condenses them into a single one, so you only have to subscribe to one thing. So now you only have to remember the following URL:

  http://www.dethpakt.lumensoutdoors.org

  Enjoy living in the future, with its many many buzzwords.

• It's that time again - October 31, 2007

  Once again, it’s fall. And like every year at this time, I am looking at moving. The reason for moving this year isn’t because I am getting a new job or because I don’t like where I live but that David is moving to Hawaii. That’s just a little too far to share an apartment and the rent on a two bedroo m place is way too much for one person, so I’m having to move out.