Europe
Pub Quiz – New Record
The Table of Contents is in the hiz-ouse!!! 66 points. Fifth place. Out of 16 teams. Way more than last time. What can I say, we rock. Actually, it was only through trickery that we got Ian, our star player, Read more…
Ramblings
9/11
Today is the fourth anniversary of 9/11. In general I tried to avoid TV news coverage. But I was channel surfing before going to bed and got sucked into a documentary about Flight 93, the one that crashed in a Read more…
Ramblings
Honoring the Dead
I have to say, I agree with the families rallying against the “International Freedom Center” which is proposed to be placed on Ground Zero. At frist glance, the mission of the IFC sounds unassailable, “to understand and appreciate the story Read more…
Ramblings
Amazing Powers of Precognition
“The administration will try to scapegoat FEMA or the state authorities. The show will go on.” (post) I love being right as much as the next guy. Just wish I could be right about something positive for a change.
Europe
License Update 3
I am now certified to operate a motor vehicle in the Netherlands and within the European Union. Pretty cool, considering I still have no idea what most of the signs mean. The Dutch bureaucracy came through, in less time than Read more…
Ramblings
Two Days
My god. Two days is all it took. Two days without water, food, and electricity. In two days a vibrant, bustling city of almost a million was reduced to a flooded, lawless wasteland where people shoot at the authorities they Read more…
Europe
Pub Quiz
The Table of Contents didn’t do so well at tonight’s pub quiz in Rotterdam. We finished with 52.5 points (out of 90), 10th out of 14 teams. I guess since we only had 4 people, and not 5, we could Read more…
Europe
A Very Culinary Weekend
In Dutch it’s called “Dordt op jou bord”. Literally translated it’s something like “Dordrecht on your plate.” Actually, Ann and I didn’t even know about it until we stepped out of the apartment at 2pm (something I would not have Read more…
Ramblings
Reason to Stay in Iraq #34
Bush says now we are staying because leaving would weaken the US. Huh? *scratch of the head* Were we any weaker BEFORE we put 130,000 US citizens there at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars that could have Read more…