Friday, June 24, 2005

Nothing Doing

We haven't done a hell of a lot over the past few days.

Despite temperatures in excess of 40 C, we have been going outside. It's thrice-damned hot out there, but it's a very dry heat. So while each individual breeze feels like a blast from a hair dryer of cosmic proportions, there's none of the sopping sweatiness of Kingston heat.

There's a pool nearby. We spend a lot of time there. We swim, read, smoke cigars, and drink Heineken. Okay, the last two are just me.

I've been reading a lot of Tom Robbins lately. The book in question is called Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. It's about a former CIA agent, and involves a lot of literary tap dancing. It's good. You should read it.

I recently realized that I lack the appropriate cables to hook up my digital camera. That means you'll have to wait until some other point in the future before you can see the photos from our little voyage.

We go to Disney Land this coming Thursday. Between now and then, we will likely visit a waterpark, gamble at a casino, dine at a nice restaurant, do a little boutique shopping, drink a lot of wine, and eat a few more steaks (and pizzas).

I haven't been badly burned by going out into the sun yet. This is a major victory, in and of itself.

There's been no luck thus far with our guest speaker for the landmine foundation benefit dinner. As much as I want this to happen, I may have to postpone it again. I hope not. I'll know more by next Tuesday.

My hit counter has been marching forward at an alarming rate. This is mainly because everyone in the free world seems to want to see the Shelby Cobra photo that I posted a few months back. Seriously, about 50% of my hits are coming from the Google image search. Also, someone got to my webpage by Googling "cardboard swordfighting". I think that's pretty cool.

9 Comments:

At 7:10 p.m., Blogger Eve said...

OMG THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BOOKS

I read it every summer, it's fantastic. What part have you gotten to?

 
At 9:18 p.m., Blogger Ryan said...

He's just read the Third Prophecy of Fatima.

I know. So good. I want to be him when I grow up. Stilts and all.

 
At 3:10 a.m., Blogger Channing said...

I hate you. I wish I was by a pool. :(

 
At 11:18 a.m., Blogger Ryan said...

Korea doesn't have pools? I thought you were near some pretty decent beaches...

 
At 12:38 a.m., Blogger Channing said...

Yeah there's beaches... and they're fun to play frisbee on, but you can't really swim in the water yet... Too cold. A quick dunk is enough to get the sand off you and send you scrambling for a warm towel.

No matter... Soon I will be home and swiming at the cottage till the sun goes down. Mmmmm cottage!

 
At 11:12 p.m., Blogger Wandering Coyote said...

I love my Sitemeter. I have had some pretty strange hits from Google & Yahoo searches, but yours seems innocuous compared to the hit I got from some sicko looking for naked pictures of Kelly Ellard.

Do you know who Raldred is, by the way? Both you and I are on his list of blogs...

 
At 12:35 p.m., Blogger Ryan said...

RAldred is what I use for Blogger, and for my "articles blog" (hosted by another service). So it could be on either of those. But it's definintely related to me somehow. There are very few Aldreds in this world.

 
At 5:14 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

shelby cobra hit +1

 
At 9:11 p.m., Blogger Ryan said...

A few years down the road, when I build my kit Cobra, I'm definitely going to photo-blog about it.

 

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