…by Patrick O’Brian, is my current read.
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The Road to Samarcand…
Posted in Diary on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pilfered
Posted in Diary on November 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
So, my lost baggage came to my house by courier – it was found in Newark; apparently it never left the country. I seem to have most everything, but one thing is not accounted for — a 70$ rucksack purchased for the trekking part of my trip. Simply gone from [...]
Kicking and screaming..
Posted in Diary on October 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
..I am being dragged into the world of digital photography. I’m very old school, having done fine-art black and white in the past (developing my own film and paper) and even did medium format and also a little large format (4″ x 5″) with a borrowed Speed Graphics press camera. [...]
Time to lay off the late night snacks…
Posted in Diary on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, I’m in a not-so-distant city, about to go out dancing with this lady; sort of plain looking. But then I remember that I need to get something I need; I’m going to stop by the local hospital to check it out. I get to my room, and what [...]
Cardiac Arrest
Posted in Diary on September 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It so happened that I had an event at work wherein a loved one was at death’s door, but the family had different factions insofar as this was being recognized, and in considerations of what to do about it.
By evening’s end, I was physically interposing myself between members of the factions who were waving fists [...]
Gourmand
Posted in Diary on September 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It so happens that I am going to Nepal in about seven weeks, and it so happens that I am going to D.C. for a dance lesson tonight; near to a known Nepalese restaurant. I think I’ll give it a whirl and try those curried lentils and rice.
Much ado about something..
Posted in Diary on September 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Such a great performance seen this evening, watching my son’s third Shakespeare play, which is his second performing in Much Ado About Nothing. (His first was Twelfth Night). It was an outdoor performance, and there was a light sprinkle which progressed to a drizzle, but no one moved. [...]
So Close to Heaven
Posted in Books & Reading, Diary on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas. I’m supposed to be reading Karen Armstrong’s scholarly book about the Crusades, but I’m finding other fare more enjoyable at the moment. Thanks to my friend K. for giving me this. I’m also reading Video Night in [...]
Atypical
Posted in Diary, More About Me on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t watch any T.V., period. I have not for many years, excepting for those bits I catch in a patient’s room at the hospital where I work. I do, though, occasionally watch interesting YouTube videos, and opine that I will be bringing the “boob tube” back into my life [...]
Turn your head and cough..
Posted in Commentary, Diary on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My friend DingoEnlish gives me this link about the TSA; not revealing anything that I didn’t know already. But it is worth a read; and it illuminates my thinking a bit as well. When I was in Bahrain in transit to London we all got patted down (women passengers, as well [...]
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