Uneventful Day

I studied some Thai today and listened to the first lesson of Pimsleurs Cantonese Level I. I am also about halfway through reading Song for Susannah, book six of The Dark Tower series. After that I headed to the 'bees in Lawrenceville (It was one of the jobs that got me out of this country in the first place). I attempted to get people to join me for the 12:01 showing of Spiderman 2, but it didn't happen. I'll see it soon enough.

Whether due to a bad camera or bad development, I always thought this was a pretty cool pic. It certainly appears as if I am pining for her.... 

$3/hour Gaming on AOL at 9600 Baud. The Good Ol' Daze

I miss my characters sometimes. Can anyone reminisce with me?

NWN - Gwindarr and Brejin
Federation - Ninjal285, Duke of Shade
Dragon Realms - Krenastae and Wyrm


Bird 1 - "Do you know who I am? I was badass in a text-based mmorpg game."  

Bird 2 - "Nope sorry, I can't read."

Planet Lonely

Lonely in London.  

What is the deal with LP anyways? What exactly is so great about backpacking (I never liked this word as a verb) around Europe or any otherwhere if all you do is hang out in hostels or guesthouses and get drunk with a bunch of other westernized folk with the same heavy inefficient-to-backpack-with-that-pegs-you-as-a-tourist book that you all like to carry? Are you folks that naive? Ok, so its friggin much cooler to be throwing back a nice 6 Euro bottle of wine in Paris then a $3 draft at Mcguinns Place in Lawrenceville, NJ, but are you really getting any useful life experience out of it? If that wasn't your goal in the first place and you weren't telling your friends this, you may be excused from this scolding.

Brilliant View!

I was completely stunned by the view from atop the Arc de Triumphe.  

The view from the top Arc de Triumph in Paris is spectacular. Looking down,
you can see the huge circular road intersection that surrounds the monument.
Piles of ant-like cars endlessly orbit the traffic circle. Scanning in any
direction, you find that the Arc appears to be the center of a huge work of art.
The city unfolds before your eyes in a nearly seamless picturesque map out of a
dream. Each road easing out from its source, as if beams of light from the sun.
Each tree almost caressing the roads they line, as if gently brushing the paths
for your vision. In the distance, in any direction, your line of sight always
ends with something amazing: Le Louve, Notre Dame, Eiffel Tower, or of course
the famous Avenue des Champs-Elyse้es, the road which leads to and fro Concorde
Square. Perhaps you might like to view such things from the considerably higher
Eiffel Tower, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Its mighty cold, windy and cloudy up
there. To see Paris, you must see it from the heart.