Maria is working til 6 ish, so poor old Stefan has been volenteered to take me gadget shopping. He's picking me up from Maria's lab in a bit and we can go Zune shopping, w00t! This works out well asi will have an opportunity to get the gadget buying and playing out of the way while she is at work. We are all off out to some bars later tonight. [Edit]*cough!*Chicago*cough!*[/Edit] 49ers are on and Pedr is a massive fan, which means by default I have to want them to win.
I'll have some pics of Maria trying to look like she knows what she's doing a bit later, I don't have th cable with me. Luckily she also has a pocket cam so I won't have to take the monstrosity with me later, we can just use hers, huzzah! I am gonna pick somewhere out of the list Julie sent for the bar. Either that or I saw a place called 'Peter's Pub' on the way here. Depends how lazy I feel.
More soon. You're on the edge of your seat aren't you?
[Edit] I just had a big argument with Pedr on MSN. He said 'dude, the 9ers totally aren't on tonight'. As I am stateside for some reason I took his meaning of 'They aren't on' to be 'They aren't going to win', as opposed to the more accurate 'They aren't in the play-offs dickhead'. It's Chicacgo not San Francisco who are playing. Who said University education is a waste?[/Edit]
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Sunday, 14 January 2007
Day 1 (ish!)
Ok so first the preparation! I packed all the essential things that anyone going on holiday should take. It's the bare minimum requirement:
I also took some things for Maria - poor girl has been living in that barbaric country for too long and needs civilising:
OK, so won't bore you too much with the travel details - the flight left a little late. It was a lot more pleasant than I am used to - they kept offering drinks and food and things. I am so used to the carrier charging you for every little thing, especially given that I got an Uber deal on the flight, but these guys gave me loads of stuff. Their inflight entertainment requires some work thougj, the movies were totally lame lol! Anyway, was cool. I decided I wasn't going to take any pictures out of the window. Then we flew over Greenland.
So obviously US passport control was manned by crew-cutted belligerence personified but luckily there were some Germans and French at the front of the queue so I think they were having a breather when it got to my turn, having given that lot a hard time. Poor sods. One of the guys was pretty funny though, whereas mine fired out a load of quick and varied questions in order to trick me into revealing that I am, in fact, an international arms dealer last thought to be at large in Paraguay.
I managed to lose my mobile phone in Cincinatti airport, so at least the part of the holiday where I lose something important out of the way.
Got on a plane the size of a bus to connect to Pittsburgh and half the luggage was left on the tarmac because it was too heavy. Luckily mine wasn't one of them but there was a queue of unfortunate people at the airport without luggage, so again I wa squite lucky.
I was so pleased to see Maria, was so weird after all these years - we had a cigarette and got back to hers where I met her boyfriend, Stefan. This pic is a bit blurry, I'll get better ones later in the week. I crashed out around 1230am, and got some decent sleep. Now I am all ready to gadget shop with Stefan while Maja goes to slave over a hot test tube all day.
More later, you lucky people.
I also took some things for Maria - poor girl has been living in that barbaric country for too long and needs civilising:
OK, so won't bore you too much with the travel details - the flight left a little late. It was a lot more pleasant than I am used to - they kept offering drinks and food and things. I am so used to the carrier charging you for every little thing, especially given that I got an Uber deal on the flight, but these guys gave me loads of stuff. Their inflight entertainment requires some work thougj, the movies were totally lame lol! Anyway, was cool. I decided I wasn't going to take any pictures out of the window. Then we flew over Greenland.
So obviously US passport control was manned by crew-cutted belligerence personified but luckily there were some Germans and French at the front of the queue so I think they were having a breather when it got to my turn, having given that lot a hard time. Poor sods. One of the guys was pretty funny though, whereas mine fired out a load of quick and varied questions in order to trick me into revealing that I am, in fact, an international arms dealer last thought to be at large in Paraguay.
I managed to lose my mobile phone in Cincinatti airport, so at least the part of the holiday where I lose something important out of the way.
Got on a plane the size of a bus to connect to Pittsburgh and half the luggage was left on the tarmac because it was too heavy. Luckily mine wasn't one of them but there was a queue of unfortunate people at the airport without luggage, so again I wa squite lucky.
I was so pleased to see Maria, was so weird after all these years - we had a cigarette and got back to hers where I met her boyfriend, Stefan. This pic is a bit blurry, I'll get better ones later in the week. I crashed out around 1230am, and got some decent sleep. Now I am all ready to gadget shop with Stefan while Maja goes to slave over a hot test tube all day.
More later, you lucky people.
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