Quick Panic Attack

Is 28 days for New Zealand enough or too much?

Is 21 days for Argentina enough or too much?

Are 7 days a piece too much or too little for Santiago & Caracas?

Can I drive from Nashville to Las Vegas (taking in Graceland, Okemah, Grand Canyon and a bit of the Mojave, Joshua Tree) in 14 days? It's only 26 hours straight! Surely I can!

And are 3 days in Chicago and Toronto apiece too little on the way back???

Won't I need a holiday after all this?!?

Ahem.

In the good news column, it turns out I have extra annual leave left over from 2000 fer krissakes.

T minus 2 months

With eight weeks to go till kick off, I'm going to make this pretty much my first travel related post.

Over the past week I've really knuckled down on the planning, all aspects, destinations, visas, vaccinations, finance, the works, culminating in a very pleasant hour and a half in the travel agents on Saturday.

I really, think we're getting somewhere and I'd suspect I'll probably have my flights all booked by the end of the week.

Things to do:

- Pick a city in Southeast United States to fly into from Venezuela. Current thinkin': Nashville.

- Decide what I'm doing in Australasia. Either way, I'm coming out of Sydney bound for Chile in the 3rd week of March.

- Vaccinations: Decide how sick I want to be for the next eight weeks and what diseases I'm going to try and *avoid*.

- Visas: Will the Travel Agent sort out the Australian ETA? Will I have to write to the Venezuelan embassy?

- Finance: To be arranged. But pretty much all under control.

- Travel Insurance: Pay the Tax de sejour and organise this.

- Gear: Get down to the hiking shop with Big Dave and start looking at the gore-tex.

The only country out of sequence weather wise is the Czech Republic. Everywhere else, should be seasonally hot or at least thawing by the time I make it to Anchorage and woollens should be cheap enough up there.

I'll pick this up later again probably.

Geek code

Geek Pick-Up Lines:

8. I was hoping you wouldn't block my pop-up.

The rest were terrible.

La Haine

What does a French Shepherd say?

Red Sky at night, your Renault's alight...

Red Sky in the morning, the Banlieue is still burning...

"Jusqu'ici tout va bien, jusqu'ici tout va bien, jusqu'ici tout va bien."

Mais ce qui compte c'est pas la chute. C'est l'atterrissage.

Roy

I'm not one for autocratic regimes at the best of times but the Emperor has departed.

And I will shed a tear.

The Age of Indigo

Props to z for this discovery. I'd call it a meme but then again I'm not R.

Do you sometimes feel wise beyond your years?

Do you have trouble conforming to the ways of society?

Do you feel out of place in today's world?

Do you perceive the world very differently than most people around you?

Do you have strong intuition about certain things that most others do not?

Do you often feel misunderstood when you try to talk to people about what's real?

Are you a truth seeker?

Do you feel like you were born to accomplish a special mission in life?

Do you feel isolated and alone in your beliefs?

Misunderstood by family?

Do you feel anti-social unless you are with people of like mind?

Are you emotionally sensitive?

Did you have a difficult childhood?

Do you often feel disempowered by too much authority?

http://skepdic.com/indigo.html

http://www.dnaperfection.com/pages/10/index.htm

"The investment in yourself for the first four sessions(Auric Clearing, Karmic Session, and 2 DNA Activations) is only $400!"

But my favourite part of this character's website is this beautiful phrase:

"I also plan on raising the frequency of my site to where it will almost be be impossible for the people who are not ready for this work to even land on it."

He should take a leaf out of my blog, I have already achieved the frequency!

Late

Was it due to the 4 cans of Miller?

Was it because I went to bed at 1:30am?

Was it because the postwoman woke me up preemptorily at sometime before 9am?

Either way.

I was late.

I'm betting on general dissatisfaction with the material substance of life.

I no longer know where home is

"So, I'll lose some sales and my boss won't be happy,
But I can't stop listening to the sound
Of two soft voices
Blended in perfection
From the reels of this record that i've found.

Every day there's a boy in the mirror asking me:
What are you doing here?
Finding all my previous motives
Growing increasingly unclear.

I've traveled far and i've burned all the bridges
I believed as soon as I hit land
All the other options held before me,
Would wither in the light of my plan.

So i'll lose some sales and my boss won't be happy,
But there's only one thing on my mind
Searching boxes underneath the counter,
On a chance that on a tape I'd find:

A song for someone who needs somewhere to long for.

Homesick.

Because I no longer know where home is."

Homesick - Kings Of Convenience

Dance

G'night Mary Lou

So we were up there. Up on Walton Mountain, right...

Well it was actually a Sinn Fein public meeting.

And Mary Lou (McDonald) spoke of a 32 county republic of equals, a message that would cut across class barriers she said. In fact, she spoke a helluvalot about class. And when it comes down it, it was clear that SF are about nothing more than reinforcing class.

What use is 32 counties if there is no real democracy, no worker's control and the resources of society remain in the hands of the ruling class?

Sinn Fein.

For 32 county capitalism and the status quo of barbarism.

For betrayal of the working class.

For blatant careerism.

Heart Like A Wheel

Some say a heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it, you can't mend it
And my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is like that ship out in mid ocean

Words & Music: Anna McGarrigle

Drink Responsibly

A heavy burden to carry.

Don't see a great night wasted kids...