As the US economy spirals through free fall into chaos, and our stock portfolios waste away. (WaMu we hardly knew ye) allow me to sidebar you with an artistic tangent. Antoni Gaudí is one of those architects who you just know was scoffed at when he was initially designing. His architectural style is such a radical departure from most anything else, that his early ridicule is expected. (Much like my own pastel experiment on Cannon Dr.)

All throughout Barcelona you can find the architecture of Gaudi, but two places seem to …

Barcelona!!! What a beautiful city. Michael and I decided we could live there, except we don’t speak the crazy language. I can (barely) get by in Spanish, and while they do speak some Spanish there, the primary language is Catalan, which is a Latin derivative, but only bears a slight resemblance to Spanish. At first, I thought my language skills had just completely declined, but I felt a little smarter when I realized what was going on. I always knew the language was a little different, but I thought it …

Michael, arrived early on Saturday morning. Of course I wanted to meet him at the airport, so I got up at 4am and started the long trek to Heathrow. Normally, leaving the flat at 5am would have given me ample time to get to the airport by 6:20, which was when the flight landed, but I had a few misadventures along the way. About 3 blocks from the flat, the police had a big square of crossroads cordoned off for no apparent reason, so I had to walk a little …

So the landlord finally came over to cut the lock to the French doors overlooking the street. As you may recall from previous photos, the windows are floor to ceiling and have filmy curtains for privacy. So when Mr Landlord came over, he decided to cut the lock with a sort of spinning cutting device which threw out sparks in every direction, including right toward the filmy curtains. This didn’t detract Mr Landlord from his duty… no he carried on, sans eye protection and without moving the curtains for a …

We’ve been a little remiss about posting here. The last month has been awkward and busy so there just hasn’t been the time to post. Either way, all excuses.
So on to the news:
I (Michael) have been working remotely for a company in the states while in London. The best way to sum it up is that it was denying me the full culture experience of living in London, so as I type this in Phoenix, AZ; I am in the midst of my last two weeks of American employ. I …

My hard drive has failed me. Sigh. I think it is gone for good. So until I get a new one I will have very limited access to internet. I have my work computer, but it has limited access. I think I will use the time wasted sufing the net by doing productive things, though wasting time is way more fun.
I went to the vegan festival yesterday, which was fun and amazingly crowded. The food was pretty good and it was nice to see so many like minded people.  I …