I haven't heard of it before until I did my research, but apparently, there is an excavation tour at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. You get to walk through the catacombs under the basilica with a small group and only a couple hundred people get accepted a day. I decided to write to the excavation office just to see what would happen. I read ( Read more... )

I have the day off work today since it is the final match between Manchester United and Barcelona.

So, I get a call on my home line. It's my mom. First thing she says when I pick up? "Where are you?" Oi.

I've been working on clearing out the two other bedrooms in the house so I can get one of the rooms ready to be set up as a guest bedroom. It's something I planned on doing 3-4 years ago. I can't believe I am just starting on this now. I had two boxes full of breakable things all wrapped up in newspaper. I haven't touched them since I first moved ( Read more... )

Had the day off today. Felt like it was the first time in awhile I've been able to fully relax. I was so worn down, I took a 4 hour nap. That's on top of the 7 hours I got last night ( Read more... )

I just read that Lux Interior from The Cramps died. Depending on what source you get your news from, he was either 52, 60, or 62. I don't get it either.

They weren't my favourite band or anything, but I listened to them quite a bit in the late 80s or so. They're the main reason why I like some psychobilly.

I love this complaint letter a Virgin customer wrote to Richard Branson.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/

I didn't watch any of it and I only saw the results online. Good God, this is the team we are sending to the Worlds in hopes of them securing the US a decent amount of berths for Vancouver 2010? Then again, skating has been pretty weak since the last Olympics. Even Sasha Cohen could be winning easily with her flawed programs.

I don't feel like working. Can you tell ( Read more... )

I forgot that the US National Figure Skating championship is already taking place. Looks like Kimmie Meissner and Emily Hughes withdrew, not that I thought they would end up at the top of the list. Still, I would have liked to have seen where they would have placed. I like Mirai Nagasu and Caroline Zhang, but they still look too young ( Read more... )

Whether or not you like Obama, you have to admit how special today is. When was the last time you've heard about not only the US, but a big chunk of the world celebrating over a politician being elected into office ( Read more... )