Saturday, December 18, 2004

All Aboard In just a couple of hours I'll be climbing aboard the first of three trains I'll be taking to the Frankfurt airport so I can get back to Texas for the next two weeks. Three mother-f-ing trains. But wait, you say, isn't it late on a Saturday night? Doesn't your plane leave Sunday morning? Yes, it does. But because it will be Sunday, trains from here won't get to the Frankfurt airport early enough for me unless I leave late the night before. So it's going to go like this: 11:43pm - Catch train in Landstuhl to Kaiserslautern 12:01am - change trains to get to Mannheim 01:06am - arrive in Mannheim and get comfortable because I'll be spending the next hour and a half of my life there. 02:24am - hop on an ICE train and haul ass to the Frankfurt airport 03:28am - arrive at the airport and get comfortable because my flight doesn't leave until 10:30am. Then its an eleven hour flight to Dallas. Then a short hop to San Antonio. If all goes according to Hoyle, I should touch down in SA shortly before 5pm. Then pick up Marcela who arrives shortly thereafter. Then dinner. Then the two and a half hour drive to Eagle Pass. Then take Marcela home to Piedras Negras. Then back to Eagle Pass. Then sleep if I can... because right about then my body will decide it is time to wake up because it'll be morning back in Germany. This all means, of course, that I won't be updating this site very frequently over the next couple of weeks. Rest assured, though, if I get anywhere near Plastic Jesus, I'm slapping those pics on this site quicker than you can say heresy. Related link: It's beginning to look a lot like Texas:  how things were going this time last year 9:03:47 PM     |

Ten Fast Ones Yet another top ten list (love these things):  Top Ten Hoaxes of 2004. 1:56:07 PM     |

Off The Beaten Musical Path If you like to venture off from the mainstream of modern music, then you might appreciate the best of 2004 list put up by a great store in NYC called Other Music.  I've got a pretty wide-ranging knowledge of music, but still I'm hard pressed to recognize more than twelve or thirteen artists/bands listed on that page.  Definitely a good diving off point the next time I go shopping (re: downloading) new sounds. Related links: Pitchfork:  Best new music SFGate.com:  Best of 2004 The Olympian:  2004's Top Ten Indie Albums 1:51:57 PM     |

Simply Eats For those of you have may have over-spent on your Christmas shopping sprees and now are a little low on fundage for food, check out the Guide to Eating on a Shoestring Budget. Can't attest to most of the recipes, but they do look cheap and, for the most part, quick. Supposing you do have plenty of cash on hand for your groceries, and happen to be techincally/analytically minded, head over to Cooking for Engineers. Again, I can't vouch for all the meals, but they do appear structurally sound. If you need a combination of both cheap, quick, and structurally sound (not to mention virturally foolproof), then make a quick stop at the Raumen Museum -- the only place I know of devoted to those quick and tangly noodles we love so much. Who knew so much history crammed into a little styrofoam bowl? Or if you simply need good eats, head to Good Eats. Plenty of how-to's to keep you cookin' well into 2005. 12:48:43 PM     |

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