Shut Down

What I did with some friends these past 33 months.

What now?

Xin nian kuai le!

Nihilism gets a bad rap

Abject Scumbaggery

Mobile was the future...

Happy labor day morons (warning adult language?)!

Spaaace Maadnessss

Persistence of Vision

This watch has better specs...

In the beginning was the end

Itchy Fingers

Ain't no accountin' for nothin'

Wholly Shucking Fit!

The view from the zoo

Resumption of Fission

Very well, thank you

Geek out in a Moonage Daydream

Happy Valentine's Day!

Life Goes On

When The Compass Needle Spins

Update?

Noam, say it ain't so!

Ayah!

Escape

What time izzit?

Somewhere Between Philly and Delaware

Minutiae

Another Country Heard From

Rampant Experimentationalism

Shoe Prime - *thump*

What you are seeing does not exist

All the world a stage

Keep Your Sense of Humor

Slurryarhystic Billow

Allah Ist Gut

Here ya go...

My mistake

Guess

Wreckless Endangerment

Who shivs a git?

How much danger am I in?

Handy, man

Extraordinary Rendition

All quite on the eastern front?

Crying woof again?

Very well, thank you

It works so well I think I'll stop using it. I jest, of course. A wee bit. It is so easy to blog at mairs.net now I must conquer other fields though. Have I an audience? I have my doubts. Still no members, not much email, this isn't very targeted of course. And we are all most interested in ourselves. What use is my drivel to you? I hope it amuses but I'll get more buck for that bang finishing a novel. So keep an eye on lost if you like that sort of thing. I promise to keep it free unless somebody buys it. And keep an eye on TravelPod, I do want to reconstruct these last few years. If I've any narrative of value, that may well be it. Of course I remember all the stories Cher found me, Thai wives and the destruction of their farang husbands but I didn't listen. And just as well, had I not done that I couldn't be doing this.

Character deleopment is wonderful. Enjoyed Gaiman's Graveyard Book, just finishing Anansi Boys, reminds me attachment. Fall into these stories. Davies is one of the worst for me. I want those characters to go on. Must these novels end? I take it Pratchett's winding down. Well, damnit, must these novels end? Guess I'd better get to work whilst still I can.

Character development is an illusion. Ride the blog back, go ahead, I dare you. What has changed? My circumstances, because I am comfortable with discomfort. But not me, not much. Not you either, really. I eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or oatmeal for breakfast. In China. How long have I been doing that? I quest for exciting foodstuffs at night, found halal noodles this evening, but that isn't new either. We impose our beliefs of what we are on a very random and reactive set of behaviors. Are we our habits? Then break them. I really should quit smoking. Not especially because of its lethality, my open windows here on the nineteenth floor are at least as dangerous, but because it's a habit.

I did not expect to move to Phoenix. I did not expect to move to New York. I did not expect 9-11. I did not expect to move to Thailand. I did not expect to lose everything. I did not expect to start over in China. I could rebuild the finances here, albeit slowly. But what should I expect? I'm interested in the MSc but what's the real gain? Will it make me a more enlightened person? Maybe the job in Malaysia would involve being at sea. A big positive to me, but worth giving up China? What about Poland? I'd love to see Eastern Europe. Whatever I do will be a surprise to me.

I roast my peppers in a strainer spoon over a gas burner which no longer ignites itself because, I believe, its D-Cell is dead though I wonder why it doesn't use wall current but I have the bic I got from Cher which gas is long gone but flint remains and oft-times the burners will stay lit if you hold the gas down a few seconds but it is not uncommon that they do not and that is certainly annoying but ricochet- it's not the end of the world.