Tag: stupid travel update
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I wonder if Albrecht Durer was a Pepsi or a Coke guy
OK, I’m back. Went to bed at 8:00, Oakland time, and woke back up at 2:00, unable to sleep, so here I am, digging through the piles of trash from my luggage, trying to return the gadgets to their daily configuration so I can get back to The World by Monday. The flight back yesterday…
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Nuremberg
Good to be back here. I have walked a lot and ate too much and just bought a hundred pounds of art books. OK, a bulleted list summary: The flight out was brutal. Couldn’t sleep on the plane, other than little half-hour naps here and there. Left SFO at about 8:30 PM after a mechanical…
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I wish someone would slap me every time I think probiotics will make my life complete
I always get disoriented when I fly open-jawed and land in an airport that’s different than the one I left from. I don’t remember the last time I did it, but last night I landed in SFO a week and a half after departing from OAK, and it really fucked me up. I walked down…
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LA Weekend
I had an unexpected trip to LA last weekend. It wasn’t unexpected as in bad; S had a Monday work thing at the last second, and she extended it and I tagged along, leaving Friday after work and coming back Sunday morning. I always like to go to LA, although the trips are always far…
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New York, Again
It feels like I was just here, but I guess that was almost a year ago. And it feels like I just lived here, but that ended six years ago. Six years? Anyway. Woke up early. Packed a carry-on and a personal item. Drove to SFO and left the car at the wrong terminal, the…
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Notes from a trip journal, London
[I wrote this on 5.17.2012 and it doesn’t really have an ending.] I’m in Nuremberg today, sitting in my hotel with a glass bottle of Coke and listening to Jimi. I’ll get to the first leg of my German trip (and the horrible travel day I had getting here), probably about the time I’m leaving…
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Angel City and the Circle of Life
It’s Friday, and in about an hour, I’m off to OAK to catch a flight to LAX and spend a weekend celebrating my birthday. No real plans, except for a quick trip, and probably a lot of nostalgia for the time five years ago when I lived down there. I really do love LA, even…
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New Year’s Resolution: 1920×1080
It is the start of a new year — four days into it, really — and I haven’t done shit. I always have these wise ideas about some post-a-day project, either here, or some great new site that involves posting a story a day or a wiki page per day or whatever, culminating in a…
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Bass, Cookies, Vomit
I am back from my trip to Reno. I won $100 on a slot machine. I bought a new bass. I had a dream about cookies. I saw a big lake. OK, first, slot machines – I have a mixed opinion. I know they require no skill or thought. I go to Vegas with a…
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Hello from Reno
It’s two days before thanksgiving, and I find myself in a deluxe suite at a casino in downtown Reno, which is roughly like staying at the standard room in one of the third-tier off-strip places in Vegas, but it’s not bad. Reno’s like a 1970s Vegas, one you can traverse without a car or fear…