here I am in Ushuaia, discovering exactly how hard it is to not get Wifi these days.

it started to get dark around 11:30 here.   this is fecking awesome.

because of COURSE the high quality hotel in Buenos Aires has internet acess...

we've stopped here for a night, en route southward, 'cause it would be kind of too far to go all at once.

cell phone however though it does work is on what appears to be a PAINFUL roaming charge basis.

tomorrow I leave for antarctica.

no I am not making this up.
yes I will bring back penguins.

any other questions?

happy birthday sky!

Tonight is my last night sleeping in NYC for quite a while.  tomorrow noon I head WAY north, up to a little known road named after Blue Wind Hill, a hill which my family hapen to own, way up in vermont, beyond the reach of internet or cellular phone service.  back the night of the 25th ( Read more... )

Done with finals!

2 Final assignments down,   1 final exam to go.

also.
woooot!  happy.in the game of life-as-risk, It feels like I'm rolling all-sixes.

here's a riddle for you:  what do french dictators and 80s pop music have in common?

if you don't know how this works, you read a couple of lines from a song, and in comments, answer which songs you think they're from by title and artist. I tell you if you're right.  you get bonus points for finishing the line/verse, if it is left incomplete.

1) Make me sense the wine which is drunk by kings,
And let it flow red and full in taste o' ( Read more... )

so.
went to Dreamblade tourney tonight.
won.
happy!