Wandering…

Sorry I’ve been gone for a while. I had to work at a conference, Mark moved down here (finally!), I had to entertain his imported moving help, etc., etc. I’m working on a series of things to post here soon, but in the meantime, here’s some of the stuff I’ve written for Geek Buffet this [...]

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Cutty Sark Set On Fire

I just saw this in the news today, and was quite shocked. I wrote quite recently about how, on the third day of my trip to England, we went to Greenwich and saw the Cutty Sark under renovation. Today, this was on the front page of the BBC:
Blaze ravages historic Cutty Sark
A fire which swept through the famous 19th [...]

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Robert Earl Keen in Raleigh

Last night I went to the Robert Earl Keen concert at the Lincoln Theatre in downtown Raleigh. My friend Rob is *ahem* something of a fan, and had organized a group of people to go. I had invited my dad, since he’s the one who introduced me to REK and the Texas music genre, but [...]

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Ode to a good pair of boots

I finally broke down this weekend and did it. I replaced my hiking boots. It was time; they were worn down a lot on the heels, and the insides were starting to come apart. But still, I must take a moment in memoriam.
Those boots, a pair of Montrail Torre GTX Classics, had been with me for [...]

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England, Day 6

And now, here we are, at the telling of my final full day in England, only 2 months later. I managed to drag this out, didn’t I? Sorry. Good thing I took notes.
As it turns out, I’ve already written about a lot of what I did on Day 6 at Geek Buffet, because this was [...]

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England, Day 5

Our fifth, and next to last, real day in London was spent at the British Museum. I’m not sure there’s a good way to describe the British Museum. Given how much stuff it has in it, it wasn’t nearly as jam-packed as I would have thought. Then again, my expectations of it were probably largely [...]

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England, Day 4: The Tower of London

In the afternoon of our fourth day in England, we went to see the Tower of London.

At the entrance to the tower complex is a gate known as the Lion Tower. As we walked past the Tower with our guide on the way to Greenwich the day before, she had told us that this was [...]

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