I spent my day today doing laundry and wandering around the French Quarter. I had a beer sitting on the bank of the Mississippi river and then a Bloody Mary at the MRB (you can’t get Caesars in the US no matter how loudly you whine).
Noel got back from the movie set at around 8pm. [...]
Noel and I met up with Ashley, Adam, and Tom at the MRB. We had a few drinks before deciding to head to the Marigny (”13″ specifically).
After a few beverages, and some food (the Philly cheese steak po-boy is fantastic) we went off to the Saturn Bar on St. Claude (on the border of the [...]
I woke up today at 3pm, still drunk from when I went to bed at around 7:30am.
Last night a bunch of us went geocaching in the Quarter. At one point there was seven of us looking under benches and feeling through potted plants in the dark. In any other city this would probably seem a [...]
We wound up at Mimi’s for tapas yesterday. Met up with Ryan. She’s very pissed off about the state of the city and told us a story about how she met a state representative and let him have it. He asked her how her government had been failing her and she began to tell him. [...]
First, if you have to tell her that your intelligent or funny you aren’t.
Things were going well until you talked about how much medication you’d need to take for them to let you have your job back.
It’s probably less attractive than you think to say “What’s the fucking point of living? I cannot live on [...]
I’ve been sick since Wednesday. On Friday I was feeling a bit better and I decided to ride Bonecrusher 250km to visit my brother and his girlfriend out in Bobcaygeon.
I rode back on Saturday. It was about 15C and by the end of the three hour ride in the cold I was worn out and [...]
I flew to Seattle on Sunday. Being bored, I shoulder surfed the laptop of the man sitting next to me. He appeared to be writing a speech about how he handled being abused as a child. The writing wasn’t especially good, but the content was interesting. He got to a point where it would be natural [...]
My immigration paperwork arrived yesterday and I promptly loaded my belongings into my car. The last thing to put into the car was the dogs. I rolled up the windows (I have learned that cars contain dogs much more efficiently with the windows shut). One of the power windows refused to close. I knew what [...]
I went to my company’s summer picnic yesterday. It was held near North Bend, WA, a town made “famous” by the TV show Twin Peaks.
The “picnic” was gigantic (my company employs over ten thousand people). It was big enough that people were handed maps as they arrived. There was plenty of food available from booths [...]
Noel was visiting from New Orleans this weekend. On Saturday at around noon we went downtown to the Pike Place Market and wandered around looking for one of his friends, Adam, who was supposed to have a booth there. We couldn’t find Adam, but we did find the Pike Brewery Pub where we had some [...]
I went to the local QFC tonight to do some groceries. I tried to use the self-checkout lane, but the guy overseeing it gave me a hard time about having too many things (there was no sign saying there’s an item limit). He wasn’t nice about it.
Weird.
I moved over to a regular cashier.
As the customer in [...]
