times are a changing

I have decided to give my blog a new angle and feel. New posts coming soon.

Observations... on Houston

This is the end of day 2 in Houston, here is what I've observed so far. Bullets for your reading pleasure.

• At dusk, there are about 1M crows flying around downtown just waiting to shit on your car. Thank god I drive a rental.
  
• Nice cars!! Maybe because I live in the Galleria area I see many of these, but damn I have never seen so many 7-series, Range Rover's and Porshe's in my life. (For the record, I know the 7 is a shitty car, but it sure is pretty).
  
• All chicken tastes better here.
  
• People shiver and wear parka's when it's 60 F out. I would lay out by the pool in this weather.
  
• The weather folks say "we're in for a chill..." when it's going to be under 50 F during the day. In February! HA!
  
• Randall's is almost as good as Whole Foods.
  
• I saw my first real cowboy today.
  
• My corporate apartment f'n rocks. With the exception of the witches at the front desk who lost my MacBook. We have free personal trainers! How awesome is that?!
  
• Not everyone is fat. At least not in the Galleria district.
  
• I could possibly live here which surprises even me. (But we're only on day 2, so we'll table that one.)
  
• The tunnel system confuses me. Does the inclement weather get that bad?
  
• GPS's don't work downtown. Too many buildings.
• Once again, I don't get Bravo. The TV gods hate me.
  

More observations to come. Stay tuned.

around the world, around the world

After spending a week with my foreign friends, I have determined that my life is boring as shit. My priorities are way out of whack. Work, work, work... Who the hell dies and regrets missing work. All my new pals from school travel. To good places! What they hell am I doing wasting away in North America. I am so over this.

I have decided to focus on me, and make seeing the world a top priority. I guess all these years my mother has been telling me to pack up and run away to Paris was sound advice.

Here is my (tentative) list of places I want to visit in no particular order:

• Blue Lagoon, Iceland
  
• Stonehenge
• Dublin, Ireland (pub crawl)
• Patagonia
  
• Madrid, Spain (you are my host Alvaro!!)
  
• The Azores, Portugal
  
• Cape Town, South Africa
  
• Cairo, Egypt
  
• Morocco
  
• NZ (backpacking & beaches!)
• Australia (more backpacking & beaches!!)
  
• Florence & Milan
  
• St. Petersburg & Moscow
• Thailand
  
• Tibet
• Buenos Aires
• Alaska
• Northern Canada (to see the Northern Lights)
  
• Back to Yugo (Belgrade, Dubrovnik, & Montenegro)
• London (Jimmy & Nicole watch out)

I am open to any more suggestions anyone has.

at work and play

I just spent the last week at my company's training facility. At each level, we have intensive training that lasts a week or two. The entry level training is like a frat/sorority drink-a-thon. Lots of training, alcohol and sex as expected. I guess those of us one level up aren't that much older, but I wasn't expecting what I saw. There were people taking their wedding rings off once they got off the plane.

I get singles hooking up. I even get committed but not marrieds hooking up if that is there thing. However, married people hooking up not in open relationships? WTF!

Perhaps I have some arbitrary moral threshold, that when you actually marry someone, you keep it in your pants from that point on. Isn't the point of marriage commitment? I think people go into it with the wrong perspective. When you get married, or so I believe, you aren't promising to not look at anyone else. You're not even promising to not want to sleep with anyone else. You're promising not to ACT on it.

Holiday Travel

Ugh... As I type this I am half in the bag at DFW (that's the Dallas airport for those of you not in "the know"). I have been trying to get back to Boston for 24 hours, with no luck. Let me recap the last24 hours of my life.

12/26 7AM MST: Woken up by Kira, sadly after Daddy and I went to bed after drinking MUCH too much wine.

12/26 9AM MST: Load Spore which was a Christmas gift from D. Played until 11:30AM even though I was NOT packed or close to it. I curse him for buying me this since he knows how addicted to shit like this I get.

12/26 2PM MST: Leave for the airport, with a pit stop at the baby mama's house. Laugh at the purified vomit in the driveway and drill the digits "867-5309" into Kira's head.

12/26 4:05PM MST: My 5:05 departure has been moved to 6:30PM

12/26 4:45PM MST: Say good bye to my lovies and wish them well en route to the Midwest.

12/26 4:47PM MST: Learn Midway has been closed.

12/26 6:10PM MST: Pay admirals club bar tab, and head to gate C37.

12/26 6:15PM MST: Get to gate, and wonder how a flight to LAX (that has not even deplaned) will board and take off in 2 seconds.

12/26 6:30PM MST: Grumble that my flight is delayed.

12/26 7:10PM MST: Grumble that my flight is delayed some more.

12/26 8:00PM MST: Flight to ORD canceled.

12/26 8:05PM MST: Confirm re-booking and head to collect bags.

12/26 8:55PM MST: Drops bags down the escalator. Yes, that really happened.

12/26 10:35PM MST: Back in Boulder thanks to a spare car & house key.

12/27 4:15AM MST: Back on the road to DEN thanks to my Garmin.

12/27 6:00AM MST: On flight ready to go.

12/27 10:55AM CST: Stuck in Wichita Falls, TX to refuel since DFW is closed.

12/27 1:35PM CST: Finally off the plane in Dallas.

12/27 4:55PM CST: Half in the bag, writing this post. Board in 45 minutes, god willing.

Hammer Time

Woo hoo! This woman from Hamilton (aka The Hammer) made it three days in the snow.

I love my hometown.

Joyeux Noel

I just want to wish all my people Merry Christmas and Joyeux Noel.

Much love - K