Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: May 2003

  • Sleep dep zombie, future of war

    Can’t sleep. It’s amazing when I can drag for 14 hours through a day feeling like a zombie, then when I make it to bed, I can’t sit still. And after all of my bitching about the weather, it’s almost vaguely warm tonight, and I don’t have my fan armada set up yet. So I…

  • Blitzkrieg

    I can’t stop playing Blitzkrieg. It is the most addictive strategy game ever. It’s fairly accurate to World War II, but instead of being a first-person sort of thing like Medal of Honor, all you are doing is moving around your tanks and troops and stuff on an isometric map that vaguely resembles the old…

  • back

    I’m back. I’ve been back since Wednesday morning, but there’s been a lot of jetlag and apathy toward writing on here, plus I’ve been working on the trip page and other general unpacking. Not much else is going on. It’s very depressing to be back in New York. The temperature is a good 20 degrees…

  • no sleep before Hawaii

    I can’t sleep. I guess I only have an hour or two until the alarms go off, but I think I will be fairly screwed today. In about five hours, I’ll be on a plane to Dallas, then to San Francisco, then eventually to Honolulu. That’s about 14 hours of airplanes and airports, and yet…