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I was screwing around with my Pentax Optio W20 (a waterproof point-and-shoot that is, apparently, worth more now than what I payed for it a few years ago), and I rediscovered its time-lapse functionality.

The above movie was shot from pre-dawn to post-dusk from the balcony of the condo we’re staying in near Dillon, Colorado Continue reading

Including many like this one taken on approach to BFS, the Belfast International Airport… Continue reading

I’ll be in Armagh for the next two weeks, so expect me to be curt on the phone ($1.25 per minute, fer cryin’ out loud).

I’m taking a spare phone that I’ll try and get a SIM card for; I’ll post the number here if I pull that trick off.

I’ll be back at the end of the month… Continue reading

And my Flickr page is pretty much all Guam by now. Click the pic if you don’t believe me… Continue reading

Sunrise/Sunset changes for January:
Guam:
Jan 1, 2008 6:44 AM 6:05 PM 11h 20m 45s + 0m 09s
Jan 31, 2008 6:49 AM 6:21 PM 11h 32m 21s + 0m 33s
Sunniness increases by 12 minutes
Detroit:
Jan 1, 2008 8:02 AM 5:10 PM 9h 08m 18s + 0m 42s
Jan 31, 2008 7:48 AM 5:44 PM 9h 56m 51s + 2m 17s
Sunniness increases by 48 minutes

Seasons… Continue reading

I arrived late last night (early this morning, really) after 24 hours in airplanes and airports. First there was a 13 hour flight to Tokyo, then a layover (about 4 hours), and then over three hours to Guam.

I showed up beat (and without a rental-car reservation, which added more time).

The time… Continue reading | 1 Comment

I am, apparently, the only passenger gold or better. Never seen this before.

Mom and Mike are probably getting upgraded again… Continue reading | 1 Comment

On Saturday I set out for home (from Youngstown, OH) with the plan of using a stretch of, if memory serves, I-76 on my way back to Ann Arbor. I can usually hack 60 or so for as long as I want, and I didn’t expect a lot of traffic, so I figured I’d be OK. Besides, people can always pass me.

Still, I had a bad feeling about… Continue reading

I’m here at the Holiday Inn in ‘Boardman’ Ohio. Yup, them are scare-quotes. It turns out that ‘Boardman’ is a polite fiction used to separate the relatively polite part of Youngstown from the actual, blighted, Youngstown of downtown Youngstown reality.

Tonight I’m going through two emotionally wrenching experiences. By ‘wrenching’ I have to admit I’m referring to the small sort of wrench we used to use (in airplane-wrenching school)… Continue reading

One million miles.

… use dollars to pay for your drinks. At least on Continental; they charge $5 or £3 (which works out to $6) per libation.

So stash some greenbacks for the trip home… Continue reading

A bloggy blog post.
On my way home from Belfast, NWA offered me a bump on the EWR->DTW leg. I had a seat up front, but, as it happened, my ‘travel plans were flexible,’ so I took the vouchers. (One for a north-american round trip and a second one for a hotel room.)
Northwest had a bunch of cancellations on Saturday that caused my flight to end up overbooked.
I’ll… Continue reading

Takin’ a break back behind the Coleraine Chronicle. Happy birthday to you, too… Continue reading

My new passport arrived today, two days before my departure for Coleraine.
That’s a relief… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Including this one of a seagull (shot from my 9th-floor balcony).

More on my Flikr page… Continue reading

That would be Montréal’s old port area.
I got a lot of sun and a few pictures. Here are some of the pictures.

Later I noticed that Bob Harris (of Prisoner of Trebekistan fame) seems to have… Continue reading

I guess there’s not much I can add to this beyond that you could find it yourself in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Select on Rue Viger in Montréal, Quebec… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Mon 7/16/07 Colraine
Fri 7/27/07

Mon 8/13/07 Moygashel
Fri 8/24/07

Mon 9/3/07 Moygashel
Fri 9/14/07

Mon 9/24/07 Rathfriland
Fri 10/5/07… Continue reading

Just found out that Montreal might be delayed.
Quark is being pissy about letting us have Xpress 6.5 (French Canadian version).
We’ll see.

Getting the hang of this wordpress stuff… Continue reading