Stuff

I mentioned this on the facebooks, but there’s no harm in putting it here too…

My mate Stu only went and wrote a novel. As anyone who knows him would expect, it’s a gem of a read, a real page-turner, that keeps you guessing and wondering where the devil the inspiration for something as otherworldly and darkly funny came from right to the end.

Join the campaign to make it a christmas number 1, order your copy now:

The above’s a short video of the charming little animated ‘green white man’ on all the pedestrian crossings in Oaxaca. I like how he encourages you to run, not walk, the closer it gets to the stop again. I also wonder if there’s a backwards setting in there somewhere…

As you know, no news on this blog means there’s lots of news occurring, but no time to write about it. In brief, we made several gourmet home-made pizzas last night with a couple of lovely folks from Bowdoin. Today’s Wolfe’s Neck with dearest Atticus, picking up Blackcurrant & Apple juice, Twiglets and as many Creme Eggs as I can stomach, from the UK Essentials shop in Freeport. Tomorrow, if the weather holds, tis a Flickr meet in Brunswick of all places… so maybe some more Mainecentric photos will follow soon. And that is the mere tip of the iceberg in terms of current events round our way.

Plus and the character +. And %2B

Look it! My camera’s got a time-lapse mode. If Atticus was here now we’d be in business. As it is, here’s my first effort. Play him off, keyboard cat:

Happy Pascua y’ustedes!

which means I can check out all the places I used to live in alarmingly high resolution…

Here’s 6, Trafalgar Place, here’s Mister D’s, and here’s the Uplands Tav (The Celtic Pride’s AWOL…)

When US cities got streetview there were all manner of interesting scenes, wonder what Swansea and Brizzle will turn up… I dread to think

Mum & Dad are still here till Sunday, so I’m still keeping off facebook. I might be on Flickr from time to time still. Beach tomorrow, weather permitting. Normalish service as of monday. Regards to all.

it’s been so long… Anyroad, we’re 1 week into having Mum and Dad around. We’ve been to waterfalls, forests, wine country, downtown & trader joe’s and seen sun, sleet, fog and snow. Things are going grand, it’s lovely having them around. It’s been nice to get away from Facebook for a while too. I bundled them off to see Slumdog an hour ago at the cinema down the road, so I’m taking advantage of the time to nose around the interwebs and update me status here and there.

Photos will eventually find their way onto Flickr, where one of the photos from the waterfalls trip got on Explore.

I’ve a couple more full days at L&C then on Thursday, if it stops snowing long enough, we’re going to either hit the coast or the gorge. We’ve been saving the Science museum (OMSI) for when the weather gets truly dire, so tomorrow as it reaches its nadir, I think they’ll be checking out all that. Either way, if all’s quiet at this here blog, just assume things are going grand. Thanks for not giving up on reading… hasta pronto y’all 🙂