Absolutely exhausted after a long drive home from the southeastern part of the state and thrown into a panic about a sooner than anticipated deadline for my grades to be submitted, so we’ll keep it simple today.
A Free Family is just back from a long weekend spent here…
…which is about 350 km down the coast [...]
21 Oct 2008 at 10:26
A Free Man
Canada, Canadian Artists, Dr. O'C, Family, Florida, Missouri, Timmins, travel
The world’s your oyster shell
So what’s that funny smell
You eat the bivalve anyway
And you’re sick with salmonella
You get your Ph.D.
How happy you will be
When you get a job at Wendy’s
And are honored with employee of the month…
Toad, who is rapidly becoming my favorite music blogger, has been writing a lot about “Dad Rock” lately. You [...]
Since our arrival Down Under, one of my goals has been to run across some of the exotic wildlife for which Australia is famous in their native habitat. Until this weekend, my wildlife encounters have been limited to spotting cockatoos, rosellas and the occassional pigeon from a distance and a couple of unidentifiable furry [...]
“Runway 4, Flight 209
teardrops fall we start to climb
this window seat proved a poor choice
it shows a dream that’s been destroyed
Little baby starts to cry
Hey, I would to if not for pride…”
-Dwight Yoakam – “1,000 Miles”
First leg done. The Orlando to L.A. flight was pretty much a breeze, with the exception that the whole [...]
“Adelaide
On a plane
Far from the United StatesOf LA
Dropping in from outer space
Takes a day…”
-Ben Folds – “Adelaide”
Tomorrow is the day. The last leg of our trip, the longest and probably the most painful. Orlando to L.A. to Sydney to Adelaide. We’ve managed to avoid, and I’m knocking madly on wood, the horrifying stomach contents ejecting [...]
When I was a younger man I lived in Athens, Georgia and worked behind the counter of a popular coffee house. It was a wonderful job because built into it was the opportunity to meet and chat with the illuminati of the Classic City. One of them, the lead singer of a rock band who [...]
It’s never as bad as you think it’s going to be.
No part of our trip, from our pre-dawn departure from Sweden in blowing snow to our pre-dawn walk on the beach 32 hours later, was a lot of fun. Neither was it the disaster that it could have been when we got of the ground [...]
Today is our last day in Sweden. We’ll jet off into the dark western sky for another hop over the North Sea. After landing in Heathrow we’re in for what is bound to be a harried race across London to Gatwick Airport – with slightly more luggage than we arrived in Sweden with ten days [...]
Bob: It gets a whole lot more complicated when you have kids.
Charlotte: It’s scary.
Bob: The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born.
Charlotte: Nobody ever tells you that.
Bob: Your life, as you know it… is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how [...]
“I was dreaming of a steel guitar engagement
When you drink my health in scented jasmine tea
You knifed me in my dirty filthy basement
With that jaded faded junky nurse
Oh, what pleasant company…”
-The Rolling Stones – “Let It Bleed”*
I’ve not got a lot of great photos of Sweden to share with you today because, if the truth [...]
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