As my last post of 2007, I thought I’d purge some to-be-blogged photos from recent walks around town. Without a doubt, it’s been a strange year. I never thought people I’ve never met would come and visit my blog regularly and actually send me presents and things. When I was fifteen, a [...]

I thought this marriage thing was going to be really nice, but it’s been almost 11 weeks, and I just can’t take it anymore. Things have just spiraled out of control. My lawyer says that the percentage of the house that I can get depends entirely on the paternity test, so we’ll know [...]

One of my favorite songs has got to be John Prine’s Angel from Montgomery. I’ve mentioned it once before here when there was, well, a fly in the kitchen. It never ceases to amaze me how songwriters and novelists can write about someone else in the first person, to become someone else and [...]

In Spain, the most important time around Christmas is the family meal on the evening of the 24th, called Nochebuena.

The main feast day for Saint Thomas in the Catholic church falls suspiciously close to the winter solstice, and is celebrated on December 21 with a huge fair in San Sebastian, Spain. In Mondragón, my wife’s home town, Santo Tomás is also an important day. But since San Sebastian is so close and [...]

Today the sun is at it’s lowest arc in the southern sky, something our ancestors have been celebrating for many millennia. We are headed to the in-laws to celebrate the solstice in the typical Spanish way, with food, wine, and merriment.

My sister-in-law recently purchased a new computer that came with Windows Vista pre-installed. She couldn’t stand it. She said, “I can’t find anything anymore!” The first thing she did with her new computer was have her boyfriend come over and install Windows XP on it. I suspect that this scenario has [...]

I’ve sent a few packages abroad lately, and for every single one of them, the shipping cost more than the value of the items being sent. That’s pretty frustrating, but I guess it’s obviously true for the base case of a single sheet of paper, so maybe I can’t complain. And something simple [...]

Electronics prices in Europe are really insane. When I visited the US in Feburary 2007, I also purchased my MacBook Pro, which I feel like I’ve had forever now. It cost me $1,000 less in the US than it would have if I had bought it in Europe. At the time of [...]

The other day during a morning walk around Colindres, I found this very waterlogged album cover lying on the wet pavement. So I took a photo and forgot about it until today. Using the all-knowing internet tubes, I’ve found some information about the album.