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[randomness]

Thanks to thespian: http://xkcd.com/308/



I suspect it says a lot about me that I identify with the climber on belay. (Well, sure, it beats identifying with the folks in cubeland. But still.)

So, who wants to join me on an adventure? :)

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[obra.livejournal.com]

Where to?

[mmeubiquitous.livejournal.com]

Ah, don't I wish :)

[marith.livejournal.com]

xkcd so rocks :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Well, to be more immediate and concrete than I was really thinking when I posted: I'm examining this Brazilian visa I have in my passport. It was issued 31/10/02, and is valid for five years. I'd like to use it again, because it cost $65 to get, and I've only used it once so far. It would be nice to be able to spread that cost over more than one trip, particularly as a new visa is going to cost $100.

I believe that means I have to enter Brazil again by 31/10/07, although it may mean I have to leave Brazil by then; can't be sure.

In any case, I was just thinking over dinner--at Gauchão, where the clientele, and the TV, provide the feel of being in Brazil already--how I'd like to go back to Brazil sometime soon. Also, recent posts by a friend in Buenos Aires make me really want to do the whole Rio to Santiago overland trip, via Buenos Aires. I've kind of been idly planning it, but there hasn't been either time or money for it.

Maybe I should post my planned trips? I have a whole bunch, from the Balkans to South Asia to Central America to the Middle East. I dunno. Gotta think about that, because so many of them are kind of in the indefinite future. It feels sometimes like I need to have things nailed down before I really want to talk about them.

In any case, I wasn't specifically thinking about travel, really, though travel is always something I'm willing to discuss. As you can see. :)

In a way it's not so much the travel itself that's the adventure. Meeting people and interacting with them, certainly is, and that I do just about everywhere.

But I'm thinking a lot. (and I'm very chatty late at night. :) )

[redbird]

Is it silly to say "yes, but I have to check in with my partners, once we're back from Montreal in a fortnight"?

[quezz.livejournal.com]

Ooh I want to but can I come up with the money??? I'm pretty tapped and school's starting too...

[sea-bound.livejournal.com]

Yes! Come visit me in Nairobi. And Amman. And The Hague. R (other fellow) is thinking of going to Tanzania at the same time that I will be in Kenya--if it happens, we're going to follow part of the great migration. If she doesn't come, you should come instead, because I'm going to do it anyway. Bwahaha.

[cubes.livejournal.com]

Sorry, busy having my own adventures :-)

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

[gee-tar.livejournal.com]

While I would normally be up for such adventures, I feel like a small period of rest is in order to recover my very interesting summer.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I'd love to, but I don't think I have my life engineered to allow it. :/

JB, sitting in his cube at work...

[obra.livejournal.com]

So,
I actually meant it in a more metaphorical sense. But mmm. Sounds like fun.

[lastclearchance.livejournal.com]

I thought there was an interesting visual counterpoint in this xkcd, and then I realized the topmost middle cubedweller was distinguished by hair and not, as I'd previously misparsed, (does "parsed" work in a visual sense?) a space helmet.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

So did I, actually, but then I got distracted. :)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Cool. :)

Speaking of soon, we should talk about tomorrow, and soon. :)

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

xkcd never makes t-shirts of the ones I want to wear. someday soon I need to make a silk-screen run of a few panels I like and this would be one of them.


as for adventure... yeah, I'm all over that. some external, some internal.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

At the moment, email is easier, but after 4 I can talk by phone. So maybe drop me email and we can follow up by phone?

[trg.livejournal.com]

Where shall we go?

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

To me, that just sounds responsible.