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Bush House, London
Posted Mar 29, 2002
I'm posting this journal Entry from the lobby of Bush House, London. 
I've just phoned up to the offices and left a voice message for Mark, but it appears that all of the italics are taking the long weekend off. I'll have to try on Tuesday! 
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Travels, etc.
Posted Mar 28, 2002
Well, I'm about to leave Dallas, after one all-too-short week. I got done some small fraction of the stuff I had meant to do. My flight leaves here for London this afternoon, and I arrive in London Friday morning early. I think I'll buzz the towers immediately, but there's really no telling. It wouldn't be the first time I thought I was going to do one thing and ended up doing something completely different.
Anyway, I think I'm meeting purplejenny at Hyde Park on Saturday at the "Don't Start Wars" peace rally. I also think I'm going to a concert in London on the 3rd and leaving again on the 4th for Nairobi, sweet home.
Back in Nairobi, I'll be relocating to a more permanent apartment, starting a new job, and getting busy on writing some 360 Entries. It'll be good to get to work - I've been travelling, stranded, visiting and otherwise displaced for far too long: it'll have been about 6 weeks without sleeping in my own bed, except for trivial exceptions. (That *must* have been a run-on sentence - oy - it can't be helped.)
Hello to everyone, and, uh... I dunno, maybe I'll post here again when I arrive safely in London.
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London
Posted Mar 16, 2002
I've been spending the week in England, and it's been great! 
I arrived in London last Friday, from Nairobi via Cairo. I'd never flown through Cairo before, at it was amazing to see the Nile from 30,000 feet. It's a blue stripe, with thin green stripes on either side, and then just yellow sand dunes as far as the eye can see...
In London, I've been staying with friends, who before this week were friends of a friend, and friends of friends of a friend, but now we're all buddies. It's great to go to a place where you don't really know anyone, and to be made to feel so welcome so quickly. 
to Christina, Bethany and Claire, for putting me up and putting up with me in their flat. 
(They aren't here at the Guide, but it's the thought that counts.)
On Tuesday, I took a train to Windsor, and had dinnner and a drink with A Girl Called Ben! Hi, Ben! 
We went to a lovely Greek place, where the waiter was quite entertaining, and we discovered that the correct adjective for a beer from Cyprus is a 'Cypriot' beer.
Then, across the street in a pub, we had lovely conversation about Life, the Universe and Everything. Ben's great, and it was a brilliant evening.
Yesterday, I took other trains out to Cleethorpes and met Archangel Galaxy Babe. Hi, AGB! The 'Great North Eastern Railway' had some delays, and a locked toilet, but I made it alive, and AGB met me at the station. We had lunch, and I ate what seemed to be a very traditional Yorkshire breakfast - sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, toast, tea, and *black pudding*, abbreviated on the menu as 'black pudd'. It was all delicious.
The weather was not conducive to walking along the promenade, so we popped into a pub and talked about The Guide, movies, travel - Life, the Universe and Everything again. Actually, that book did come up in the conversation...
I had a lovely time in Cleethorpes (as should be expected, meeting an Archangel for lunch!), and by distributing 'Cleethorpes Rock' to the kids back in London, was able to convince them that there really is such a place.
I'm hoping to make it to the Towers on Monday morning before I have to go to the airport. GB told me that Mark and Peta have been out of the office this week, but I hadn't known that. The only reason I didn't make it on Sodit, Wimpy, Wibble or Thing is inertia, the flip-side of feeling so at home here. It's easy to just sit on my backside doing nothing! I've been to London as a tourist plenty of times before, so there's been no need to get out and 'see the sights'.
I get things done if I schedule them, so why don't I say this right now? Monday morning, flight-catching permitting, I go to Bush House and meet the Italics.
After that, I'm off to Dallas for a week-and-a-half, during which I hope to accomplish several months worth of activities, and spend quality time with my family and two others. Then I'll be another week in London, and back through Cairo to Nairobi, and what I'm attempting to come to think of as ordinary life.
Ok, that last part was a lie. I have no desire to think of it as ordinary.
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In case anyone's wondering
Posted Feb 20, 2002
...where GTBacchus has gotten off to lately, I might should post some kind of update here. (Maybe I *am* a Subeditor, but I happen to *like* mixing modal verbs. 
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I'm "laying low for a couple of weeks" because I'm travelling. A very good friend has come to visit me from Germany , so I declared a holiday (being (just barely) self-employed has its advantages), and we're having a grand old time. We just have been seeing the town for a few days, yesterday was Nairobi National Park, today is Lake Naivasha and Crater Lake, and tomorrow night we take the train down to the coast! From Mombasa, there's a hydrofoil running to Zanzibar, and in Zanzibar, we're going to see just how relaxed two people can get when they have a week in paradise with no obligations. The only concrete plan there is to drink something exotic while watching the sun rise over the Indian Ocean, but if that proves stressful, we can skip it.
After Zanzibar, there's more travel. My friend goes back to Munich, and I'm off to London, to meet h2g2ers and to see the love of my life, with whom I'll fly to Texas, and spend a couple of weeks there. The upshot of all this is that I'm only online about once every three days for the rest of the month, more or less. I'll be checking in here, but if something's urgent, uh... please be patient?, all!
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Note to self
Posted Feb 5, 2002
A689196 - ACEs discussion page
Joe Bob says, check it out.
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