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I’m really not in the mood to be wiriting at the moment, I have no idea why. However things are moving pretty swiftly along here and I’m going to be laptop less for most of the next week and a bit and so I best get it down now.
So the next day in Pisco was an early start and out to the Ballestas Islands. It was better than I was expecting and the sea was nice and calm so there was no sign of a queasy stomach. There were lots of birds and seals and penguins and some rocks and well that was about that. On the way out though we did see the Candelbra which was pretty impressive. Then it was a small bus ride to an Oasis, an actual desert oasis which was kinda fun but only a few hours was more than enough. Then a short drive onto Nazca where we checked into a lovely hotel and had some dinner and an early night. The next morning was a 45 minute flight over the Nazca Lines which was amazing.
The flight itself was interesting. It was a small 6 seat Cessna and the pilot happily banked from left to right so that everyone in the plane could get a good luck. There was a lot of throwing up throughout the plane. While I wasn’t feeling 100%, I was nothing like that bad and I very much enjoyed the flight. The Lines are breathtaking and I think some of the photos came out alright but as I say lots of things going on and I hugely enjoyed the whole thing.
Then we went off to a local post Nazca, Pre Inca cemetery for an afternoon tour. I wasn’t too impressed but I’ll come back to that one sometime down the line. Then it was an overnight bus to Aquaripi where I am right now. A free day where I wandered around the old convent (yawn), berated the local Irish pub which advertises Guinness but doesn’t actaully have any “Corona instead Mister?” and now it’s dinner this evening and then an overnight trip to the Cocala Canyon. Then we fly to Cusco and it’s Inca Trail time.
So yeah really not in the mood for typing but more sometime down the line.
22.20 Nazca, Peru. Wednesday 22 October
According to my sister, she and my mother have dismissed what I write here as (and I quote) drunken ramblings for the most part. Now I shall not try in anyway to convince you that I’ve written every word here sober, that would be a lie. But still, it’s nice to have so much just dismissed out of hand.
This is, I think, yet another reason to kill off this blog and take it back to something private where I can actually try and work out issues without having to worry about the consequences of readers.
Working with this, I give you a pretty significant posting. I wrote this going on a month ago when I was in Melbourne. I wasn’t sober when I started tpying but I was by no means drunk. I’ve been wary of posting this and I’m still not convinced. I don’t think I should hit publish but I’ve given up. This is unedited.
A month ago(ish)
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They left off 10 pints and passing out.
Note to self.
When deciding it is time for an entirely new password, put more effort into remembering what you pick.
It can’t have taken me more than 30 efforts to get back into my Mac last night.
Oops.
More of a placeholder for me to come back to as I carry on but I just typed some of it up quickly for an email and it’s something I’ve been meaning to blog.
So in order of preference:
James Squire Porter (rare, I think I’ve had it twice!)
Tooheys Old (much better on tap, but stubbies are nice too. This is the one I have marked down to look out for back “home”)
Little Creatures Pale Ale
Carlton Black ( only seen in stubbies and I can only get into two of ‘em before needing to switch. An odd beer)
James Hoag (sp? - Tasmanian, only seen in stubbies)
James Squire Pilsner
Coopers Green
Pure Blonde (way way better in stubbies, I’ve had bad bad pints..sorry schooners)
Coopers Red
Beers I don’t like.
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Hahn (of any sort)
Tooheys New
Carlton Draught
Victoria Bitter (VB)
Bee Neez
Beers I have yet to see:
Fosters!
I am looking out for Coopers Dark and Coopers Porter (possibly not their names).
I shall tag this post with drunk as I was once a boy scout and one should be prepared…
I had been thinking about how I was going to get email while I’m away. I unsubbed from a whole lot of mailing lists and setup a second email address for friends and family so that I’d get to them first. I mainly use Google’s GMail, I’ve yet to find a better online mail client, and I point my own domain emails to it’s mailbox.
So I was there looking for a way to setup GMail for offline reading. Google Reader allows for it so surely GMail will too right?
Well, it does not. While I was looking into it though, I realised that I’m an idiot…again. In recent years I have moved, along with a good chunk of internet users, to web-based applications. However this does not, of course, mean that local apps stop working! Seen as I’m taking a Mac with me around the world, I have one of the best local mail clients already installed so why don’t I just set that up with POP?
10 minutes later and it’s all setup including all my feeds and working just fine. So this means that tomorrow while I am waiting for paperwork to process, I can work through all my emails and actually get those replies out.
Genius! I can’t believe it took me this long to think of it, in fact I feel somewhat stupid. I guess it’s easy to overlook the low tech solutions sometimes. D’oh!
Lots going on as you can imagine and some reporting from the weekend to follow at some stage. Now we are at T Minus 2 days!
Here is a short list of things which are awesome.
1) There Will Be Blood. In fact, it is hugely beyond awesome. I cannot remember the last time I had a cinematic expierence quite like that. I think I want to see it again this weekend.
2) Lost season 4 episode 5. I swear when they do a Desmond episode they almost, almost make quality of The Wire.
3) The new Iron Man trailer. Until now I did not care. I hoped for an acceptable if hokum superhero movie. Now I think it might actually not just be good but be really really good. Don’t break my heart Jon Favreau!
4) Gone Baby, Gone. I like Dennis Lehane a lot, I really like his Kenzie-Gennaro books so I have been wanting to see this movie for sometime. Due to the McCann case, the movie has been held back in Europe…a nice way to encourage piracy huh? Anyway excellent movie, hugely enjoyable and pretty true to the book. I’m not entirely sold on Affleck and Monaghan but at the least they did okay.
5) Leap years. Yay the 29th of February.
6) Sleeping in a bed…goodnight.