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January 2005



Horrible Monday

Monday, 31 January 2005 7:20 A GMT-05
Except for the brain part, my prediction of a coming Monday came true.  So far, no good.  Aside from the several small things which didn't quite work right this morning (my coffee in the wrong mug, for example) the electrician came to fix a closet

Horrible Sloth

Sunday, 30 January 2005 6:33 P GMT-05
Some weekends I am a whirlwind of purpose, trying to cram in all the things I think I need to do or I think I ought to do or things that need to get done.  Other weekends I am a ball of sloth, and this fine weekend was one of them.  I hadn't quite

Half Time Fun

Friday, 28 January 2005 7:30 A GMT-05
Admittedly I've paid no attention to the football season this year.  The first year was the glory season of the Patriots, finally shrugging off the weight of Bledsoe and getting on with their game.  The second year was just to show everyone that it

Freedom Fighter

Thursday, 27 January 2005 7:26 A GMT-05
You have to remain seated thirty minutes before you reach Ronald Reagan International Airport, when it's only a 45 minute flight.  Also when you get to our Nation's capital you'll no longer see the wide open mall sweeping from the Washington Monumen

Big Large World Thing

Wednesday, 26 January 2005 7:01 A GMT-05
Things are going great at my new job, but yesterday I had a book published in Budapest and without hesitating I confidently put Budapest in India.I can defend myself a little by insisting that Budapest should be in India and it's not my fault it's mo
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Come to think of it...

Tuesday, 25 January 2005 7:00 A GMT-05
Why do we blame everything on TV, anyway?  The thing has been around seriously for at least sixty years now.  Most of us don't even remember a time without it.  In fact now that we have much funner evil like video games and internet chat rooms, wh

January Snow

Monday, 24 January 2005 7:16 A GMT-05
In an effort to get up earlier, I set my alarm clock back by ten minutes.  This morning I let it go off four times instead of three, and thus got up at the same time I usually do.  I guess we can call that experiment a failure.We got a wee bit of s

Why you shouldn't buy Airflo's new forty plus line....

Saturday, 22 January 2005 8:00 P GMT-05
Don't buy Airflo! Airflo sucks! Airflo is the worst fly-line maker in the world!

Glass Half Empty

Friday, 21 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
A recent CNN poll claims that 49% of Americans believe that President Bush is a uniter.  Not surprisingly to those of us on the divider side of the spectrum, 49% of Americans disagreed.  While there is no "wrong" answer to a poll in ge

I see the light

Friday, 21 January 2005 7:09 A GMT-05
Last night as I was driving home I realized I was driving in what remained of the sunlight, which means that it can only get better now.  For some reason we're tied to the sun and not our digital clocks, so when it goes down at 4:30 that tells us we

Complaint Department

Thursday, 20 January 2005 7:20 A GMT-05
Is it the weekend yet?  We here at the Washington Central Complaint Department would like to complain about the weeks being too long and the days being too short, the weather being too cold and add to that, the snowfall we got was pathetic.  Just

What doesn't kill you...

Wednesday, 19 January 2005 7:17 A GMT-05
That's right, one day of work didn't kill me.  It was certainly helped by the fact that even though the powers that be in the company have known that I was moving into another position for about three months now, I still had to show up to work to a

Back

Tuesday, 18 January 2005 7:02 A GMT-05
Four planes, one bus, and 30 hours later, we arrived home.  Nothing much had changed, which was good --static existence is really what you expect of the things you leave behind, after all.  Apparently there were some storms and some warm days and s

Day Twenty Two: Redux America

Saturday, 15 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
America, land of the .... free?

South Island

Saturday, 15 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
Exploring the South Island of New Zealand: Winter 2003/2004.

North Island

Saturday, 15 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
Exploring the North Island of New Zealand: Winter 2003/2004.

Because We Can

Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
The Franz Josef glacier lies within a valley and conveniently on top of a fault line, which makes it unique in several ways.  Even though the glacier continues to grind down the rock, the mountains themselves are growing, and therefore the system ha

[Photo Album] New Zealand

Tuesday, 4 January 2005 6:59 P GMT-05

Tongariro Crossing

Monday, 3 January 2005 6:59 P GMT-05
We’ve just climbed Mt. Doom, otherwise known as Mt. Ngauruhoe, and it’s worth it.  There’s an outer edge with active vents where Lio

Text of the Email...

Saturday, 1 January 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
This is the text of the email I received on MLK day.  See here for the explanation. <!-- begin sanitized html --> Hey there friends,      Hope you are all enjoying this glorious day...here's to keeping America stro

Sweet As

Saturday, 1 January 2005 6:59 P GMT-05
Our first stop for the day was Waiamangu, a volcanically active area of which the exact date of surface activity can be documented.  It is classified as hydrothermal and therefore is mostly mudpools, steam vents and large bodies of hot water.  Firs