A change in routine, today. Instead of the ordinary bus ride to the office, I was squeezed into a seat on a Beech King 100 and flown 980 km NNE, followed by a 980 km return along the same track. In between, other stuff.
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Maybe this means I’m part of the “middle class”: instead of hunting and gathering to exist, I can spend time planning vacations. Whether or not the travel plans ever materialize, I can spend hours checking out routing, wandering the virtual roads in Street View, drawing up budgets based on nothing more than the ideal information provided by carriers and destination guides. A world without hunger, or sickness. Utopia.
posted in travel | Comments Off on Potential (for) travel | 283 words
Went to an extended family supper this evening, wherein I learned that I know someone that knows a dog that knows another (similar) dog that knows someone I work with. Hadn’t foreseen that connection. Worse than six degrees of (Kevin) Bacon.
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I pride myself on having a good memory (for trivial details), but some things just push my buttons. Case in point; the added password required by my credit card issuer. The one that only comes into play when I purchase from certain firms with an odd need to have the client jump through virtual hoops.
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Let’s be frank; I’m not much of a traveller. The usual litany: no time, no money, no desire, pray for us. However, from back in the time of Seven League Boots, I’ve been willing to watch a good travel documentary. You know, just in case.
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Count on the team at Thalassa to show me more places to visit, knowing that I’ll likely never get to go. Unless, by some strange twist of fate, my case comes to the attention of an eccentric philanthrope, and I get my pick of destinations.
posted in technology, travel | Comments Off on Another island to visit, some day | 266 words
Learned something new about the laser printer(s) in our office. Even if a printer isn’t broken, it is. That’s why companies reserve special error codes to announce the sad (expensive) news.
posted in economy, travel | Comments Off on A request for guts | 259 words
It was a minor detail, but my “beep” was absent. I hear it, several times a day; whenever I get on a city bus. This morning…
posted in travel | Comments Off on The broken pass syndrome | 303 words
Welcome to party town. I’m a little short on capital letters right now, but given the start of Carnaval two nights ago, I should be able to find some extras, once the tourists are through with them.
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Over the last twenty-five years, I’ve waited for a lot of public transport. Tonight, for the first time, I stood on the wrong side of the street and learned that there is a consequence. The bus didn’t make an exception.
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