paris

La tour Eiffel

I am in Paris. I took the Eurostar train from London to Paris via the “chunnel” yesterday. I’m staying in a hostel in Montmartre, which is this cool old neighborhood of Paris. There are a total of 8 people in my room, but it’s really two separate rooms with the door removed and there are …

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london

Parliament and Me

okay, several quick items: 1) these goofy british keyboards have the “shift” keys in strange places, so i’m rarely going to capitalize anything anymore. consider it all part of my european adventure. 2) i discovered that my hostel offers internet access for a pound per hour, versus the roughly 1.6 pounds per hour offered by …

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burger king bloggin’

Big Ben

Okay, so I’m writing this from the basement of a Burger King in the middle of London’s trendy theatre district. No, I was not eating at Burger King…I just noticed their huge sign for their high-speed internet access on the sidewalk. They literally have about 100 PCs on their bottom floor computer lab. It’s all …

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leaving soon

I’ll be leaving for the airport in about 10 hours. It’s unlikely I’ll get any sleep during that time. Although I’m pretty much finished packing (got my pack down to about 30 pounds, even with my stupid laptop and other computer junk I need to bring), I still need to do some more work on …

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getting ready

I leave for Europe in 9 days. Yikes. I have approximately 427 days worth of work to get done in these 9 days. Life is going to be a serious crapfest for the next week and a half. On the plus side, I was able to get in touch with an old friend of mine …

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