Look it! My camera’s got a time-lapse mode. If Atticus was here now we’d be in business. As it is, here’s my first effort. Play him off, keyboard cat:

N.B. Requires UK English for pun to function...

Happy Pascua y’ustedes!

which means I can check out all the places I used to live in alarmingly high resolution…

Here’s 6, Trafalgar Place, here’s Mister D’s, and here’s the Uplands Tav (The Celtic Pride’s AWOL…)

When US cities got streetview there were all manner of interesting scenes, wonder what Swansea and Brizzle will turn up… I dread to think

Mum & Dad are still here till Sunday, so I’m still keeping off facebook. I might be on Flickr from time to time still. Beach tomorrow, weather permitting. Normalish service as of monday. Regards to all.

it’s been so long… Anyroad, we’re 1 week into having Mum and Dad around. We’ve been to waterfalls, forests, wine country, downtown & trader joe’s and seen sun, sleet, fog and snow. Things are going grand, it’s lovely having them around. It’s been nice to get away from Facebook for a while too. I bundled them off to see Slumdog an hour ago at the cinema down the road, so I’m taking advantage of the time to nose around the interwebs and update me status here and there.

Photos will eventually find their way onto Flickr, where one of the photos from the waterfalls trip got on Explore.

'You didn't mention the volcanic formations, Gwyn'

I’ve a couple more full days at L&C then on Thursday, if it stops snowing long enough, we’re going to either hit the coast or the gorge. We’ve been saving the Science museum (OMSI) for when the weather gets truly dire, so tomorrow as it reaches its nadir, I think they’ll be checking out all that. Either way, if all’s quiet at this here blog, just assume things are going grand. Thanks for not giving up on reading… hasta pronto y’all

No, not the economy.

I got fed up with not being able to watch On Demand offerings on cable last night so I finally gave up thinking ‘it’s probably just snow on the lines, or flooding, or high winds, or volcanic/seismic activity’ and phoned Comcast to sort it out. 40 minutes of classical music later, I hung up before my mobile phone died. Then I tried email. Today I got a reply suggesting using their ‘live chat’ .  Click on the ‘more’ link or whatever it’s called if you’d like to read the conversation between John.Michael.37920 and Ms. Fisher in its entirety. Basically I’m waiting the proposed 15-30 minutes now and thought posting about Comcast would help pass the time.

A picture paints a thousand words and adds 3 seconds to the load time of the page.

Last night we ordered some Mexican food from the local El Salvadorian restaurant (I know…), and since the line was bad and there was a lot of background noise, rather than spending the usual 5 minutes spelling gwyn, I gave my name as Paco. Unfortunately this led to even more confusion and thus we ended up with Tacos de carne asada rather than burritos.

I’d like to say more has been happening of note but not really. Lots of work. Lots of walking the dog. A fair bit of reading. Countless hours on the internets… Half my family appeared in Taunton’s Gazette last week. That was probably the highlight… Doesn’t he look happy? I think I inherited the “Yay-It’s-snow!” gene…

All the news that's fit to print

Ah well, I’m off to check if I can watch The Soup on demand yet. If not I’ll be live chatting again for a substantial chunk of this morning.

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