So I'm in Italy! I left Pune at 9pm Friday night, by myself in a huge Toyota crossover van-thingy bound for Chattrapati Shivaji Int'l Airport in Mumbia. At about midnight, I asked the driver to pick a place for a quick bite to eat. He chose the Hotel Leela, which was obviously a five-star hotel. The quickest thing I could find to eat was a 1200- ( Read more... )

So that's not true. I like the drugs. Especially when they're DIRT CHEAP. I got a 10-day refill on my supply of (prescription!) antibiotics and a 10-day supply of (prescription) Zyrtec/antihistimine for 3 bucks! Over the counter! It would've cost 3-5 times that much in the US! HOT DAMN. I'm stocking up!

So it's 6:30 in the morning or so, and I've been up for the past 40 minutes or so. I woke up at 1:30 this morning for a bit too. This is after coming back to the hotel at around 8-8:30pm yesterday and straight passing out. I was a little sick to the stomach yesterday, and by the end of the day I had a bit of a headache. Hopefully today will be a ( Read more... )

I'm in Pune and feeling a lot better. Yesterday was a long day. It started around 9am and didn't end until what must've been 3:30pm the next day. I believe Jason and I were travelling for 28 straight hours. Thankfully the plane we were on had those personal video on demand screens so I killed the 17 hours of flight time by watching some movies. 8 ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for India today. I'll be there a week for work, then it's off to Europe (France, Italy, Switzerland) to goof off with lazy_kumquat for 3 weeks. See all of you when I get back!

So I ordered a Kartboy short-throw shifter for my new ride on Monday and it arrived today (along with a bunch of bar equipment which I ordered)! So today was Christmas all over again ( Read more... )

So I saw 300 on Saturday night with lazy_kumquat, zantho, rdreddragon, Shelly and Stefan. On the Darrick-scale of rating movies (Good, Ok, Bad/Funny, Bad/Insulting) this move rates a definite Bad/Funny.

I did observe a few things about the film while watching it:

• If it's monochrome and windy, then porn is classy.
• The only real time you see someone eat is when Leonidas eats ( Read more... )

( Meme like a motherfucker. )

It seems every time I buy a car, there're layoffs at work. I really should stop doing that.

And it's down to a few candidates:

Subaru STi
Pros: 0-60 in 5, 293hp, AWD, 2nd highest power-weight-ratio of cars still in contention
Cons: relatively pricy, back seats don't fold down, lame interior/seat color, lame new-for-2006 Subaru frontend, 2nd worst turn radius (tied with the G35)

Subaru WRX
Pros: back seat DOES fold down, AWD, sunroof ( Read more... )