Can you take a jaunt on an airplane? Probably not, if you consider the delays involved sometimes. Jaunts shouldn’t include unforeseen setbacks. Not that this one was particularly egregious. Just three hours more in Chicago than I’d’ve liked to spend. In any case, Denisa and I went out on Tuesday and were back on Sunday. […]
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Before I bought my tickets for Scotland, I had no real idea what to expect there. I didn’t know much about the country other than kilts and bagpipes. I soon discovered that going to Scotland in August–anywhere in Scotland–is somewhat problematic, because everyone and their brother comes to Scotland in August due to the Edinburgh
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I know what it sounds like. It sounds like you’re going to go to a big convention hall and check out tattoos all afternoon. But remember, this is Scotland, and they roll a bit differently there. The “tattoo” you’re thinking about comes from the Samoan word ta-tau. The “tattoo” they’re thinking about comes from the
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Well, I’m back. Feeling more like Bilbo Baggins at the end of the Hobbit than I’d like, especially since I didn’t come home with a chest full of dragon loot. No, if you weren’t following along with the saga on Facebook, I didn’t really come home with anything. Instead, I left my appendix in Glasgow.
Back from Scotland, Minus One Appendix Read More »
A heads up that I’m heading off to Scotland on Sunday, so the blog posts are going to be . . . non-existent while I’m gone. What am I going to be up to? Some of it is business: it’s the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow next weekend. The rest of it will be
