what a crazy winter so far, super freezing temperatures, tons of snow, ice storms, and its not even january....
i think meteorologists are gonna start having a much more "exciting" career and will be in more demand with the changing climate and extreme weather and natural disasters that seem to be multiplying every year....

i'm thinking traveling tomorrow is going to be a big adventure, over two feet of snow in maine and still snowing, freeeezzzziiing temperatures in chicago.  it will even be an adventure to get out of the house and the car out of the driveway....

it's pretty cool though, i can't remember last time i have seen so much snow!

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So now Lviv features a restaurant/bar dedicated to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Lviv was considered the capital of the national-liberation movement), to the Lviv-native Masoch, and, the newest addition of all, to the gas lamp (The gas lamp was invented in Lviv 155 years ago).
ГАСОВА ЛЯМПА - pictures of Lamp bar

In other news,

I had Burmese food for ( Read more... )

it's super cold ( Read more... )

first snow

(i need a hat)

the mountain goats played morrissey's suedehead!!!!!!! omg, amazing.

my new and favorite yerba mate gourd just cracked,
reminiscent to the way something else of mine cracked earlier today

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Argentina was great.

Some of the highlights:
Ate at the pizza place my dad used to go to as a child
Went to Tigre, a town on the delta about an hour north of Beunos Aires.  Tigre is a delta so we took a boat ride through the channels, like my farther used to do with his family growing up.
Me and Danylo went to La Colonia, Uruguay, which is an old ( Read more... )