I returned to the USA after 31 months in the former USSR, mostly living in Kiev. Now I am in Lancaster, CA living with my father and his woman... It is weird to catch myself trying to reply to things asked me in Russian then realizing that I need to speak English as I open my mouth... Time to find a job and rejoin the usa....

Look you need to grasp that there is still about a foot of snow on the ground and under that is a nice 2 inch or so layer of ice, the high today is 21 the low will be 9 no that is not in Celsius... I need to go do some shit and it is already after 1pm, the bitch is it gets dark by 4pm here, and when it gets dark it gets colder. I am trying to ( Read more... )

I am in Kiev, Ukraine. I was in Perm, Russia for a month. Yes the city with the cannibals, that a month later had a night club fire that killed a bunch of people. I hated Perm and the city left me feeling like I was in a gulag so I left…
I like Kiev. Unfortunately, I am broke, but that can be remedied with more work.

And it has been. I landed back in Texas after being screwed out of between 14-20 thousand USD... I will only return to Korea to commit an act of vengeance ( Read more... )

I am not dead in a ditch, although with the way I have been drinking if I was in the states I probably would be... I quit smoking. I created a new journal to write about life in Korea, yes one that my family that doesn't really know me can read. It is CowboyinKorea if your interested. I'll also be scribling both places, and posting pictures when I ( Read more... )

So Murphy seems to be making me his Bitch again ( Read more... )

I am at my uncle's place in Keller, Texas. Think north west Between Dallas and Ft. Worth. Not really near anything but the airport is only about a half hour away.

I will be leaving the ATL again on the 12th of April. I am going to Texas for a few weeks then to Korea. I have a one year teaching contract in Mokpo, South Korea. I'll be in Korea soon after my brief return to Texas to get things in order. I am doing Pimsleur's Korean lessons.

For dinner today I made a Yorkshire Pudding with my latest batch of Porter in both the pudding and the onion gravy as well as a pint to wash it down with. Ahh, sweet heart attack I feel your embrace coming, but jus damn it is good. I took a few pictures. I’ll see if I can post them somewhere to link. No, I didn’t eat the whole thing.

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All of the things that could go wrong have, and yet I still live. It has been “an interesting time ( Read more... )