4:20

The Giants win the Stupor Bowl! Tom Brady is my bitch and i get a full 25 cl vial of Giselle's tears! It's 4:20 so i need to go to bed just in case i actually go to my 13:00 class.

Stupor Bowl

Prediction: 27 - 17 NYG. The Giants lift their 4th Lombardi Trophy.

Tom Brady cries. Giselle files for divorce in June, admitting that she and Danny Devito have been having an affair for the past 3 months. Rhea Perlman is indifferent to the whole thing.

Robert Kraft is sued when a report emerges that a Kraft Single actually has has -1.4% cheese, baffling dairy scientists around the world and sparking threat of war from France. Kraft goes bankrupt and the Patriots are sold to Giselle, who promptly trades Tom Brady to the Cleveland Browns for a keg of beer and a lifetime supply of beef jerky.

Nit Romney wins the Republican nomination and it's a dark day for Massachusetts. 2 weeks before the Republican National Convention, the people of Mass. agree to sell it back to the Wampanoag Indians for a dollar. The Wampanoag Indians sell it to Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon a few weeks later. Wahlberg and Damon agree that the Commnwealth will continue to opperate as before except that all citizens must change their middle name to 'Red Sox' and that Ben Affleck must sell all ownings in Mass. and never return.

Just call me Nostra-dude-imus.

The Purge, Part II

16:22

The first one didn't really take. So part dos begins ahora.


Music to Purge, Two


Kid A - Radiohead
Heard of Instinct - Herd of Instinct

18:57

Making much more headway this time with the room. I was going to do this yesterday (i got home at 16:00) but my idiot roomamtes never told me the day before that they were changing the pipes to PVC,  so i arrived to a note that said we couldn't use the bathroom, kitchen or any water for three hours. All i wanted to do was take a f^*king shower and eat ( I hadn't done either yet since i had left the house at 8:30. So there was nothing to do but go to J&J's. I had a few beers with Carla, Morad, Gøran, Dave, etc. I left at 8:15 went home and then fell asleep well before 00:00.

Now time to go to Susana's going away party. Music to Binge to, anyone?

Well, it's Vicente's bar so he'll pick the music. Purge, binge? Binge, purge? These verbs evoke worrisome thoughts.  Am i Bolemic? Did i finally get that famous Jersey Girl disorder? What if i wind up like Snooki?

Bad News From Siberia

Wow. That last post was garbage. You people read this thing? All the time? How much does the Mum pay you?

But thanks for reading. Seriously.

I am so very tired. The Welsh Witch was sick, so we took a raincheck for dinner.

- - -

I was asleep by 23:00.

I woke up at 3:00 and had a sandwich and watched 30 Rock. And then back to sleep.

We have been bitter cold. It's -4C with the windchill at 12:00. All of Europe has been throttled by a blast of Siberian air.

Here is a sampling of low temperatures Friday morning, in degrees C and degrees F:

Location	Low temperature
Klichev, Belarus	-35C/-31F
Bialystok, Poland	-30C/-22F
Kiev, Ukraine	-27C/-17F
Riga, Latvia	-25C/-13F
Warsaw, Poland	-23C/-9F
Ezurum, Turkey	-20C/-4F
Prague, Czech Rep.	-19C/-2F
Milan, Italy	-6C/21F

It's the wind chill that makes it killer because we are at a high altitude. Two bad things about Madrid;
Winter: Cold Air from Russia
Summer: Hot air from Africa

5 years ago i was in CT for Xmas and it was -20 C. My balls have never recovered to their original size. Sad but true.

STUPOR BOWL

I say the Giants win by 10. It won't be as close as everyone thinks. The Giants are clicking and the Pats got thru an AFC that was weaker than Gary Glitter's ability to resist kiddie porn. Disgusting but true. If Billy Cundiff hadn't botched a 32 yd field goal it may have been a Balt/NY rematch. I'm also going to throw this out to all the NE fans (and luckily i think i've driven them all away from this blog); the Pats have not won a championship since Spygate, when world reknowned cheater, Bill Belichek, was caught taping the other team's signals by the Jets. The Giants peed on their undefeated season by winning the Super Bowl and NE has been mediocre at best since then, The upshot? No more Super Bowls for you!


From Wikipedia;

Illegal sideline videotaping

Main article: 2007 National Football League videotaping controversy

In an incident dubbed "Spygate,"^[16] on September 9, 2007, NFL security caught a Patriots video assistant taping the New York Jets' defensive signals from an on-field location. Jets coach Eric Mangini, a former Patriots assistant, tipped off league officials that the Patriots might have been filming their signals. After the game, the Jets formally complained to the league.

On September 13, the NFL fined Belichick $500,000—the largest fine ever imposed on a coach in the league's 87-year history,^[17] and fined the Patriots $250,000. Additionally, the Patriots forfeited their first round draft pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. Goodell said that he fined the Patriots as a team because Belichick exercises so much control over the Patriots' on-field operations that "his actions and decisions are properly attributed to the club." Goodell considered suspending Belichick, but decided that taking away draft picks would be more severe in the long run.^[18]

I'm looking forward to licking Giselle's tears, and to their age-reversing properties. 

Mailed it in

Friday.

So tired.

There was lots of stuff that happened.

Nothing extraordinary. Just stuff.

Because stuff happens.

"i speak for the trees,"

Whew, i had to do a lot of fiddling about to get the picture in the masthead to not be enormous. But trial and error between iPhoto and the Google interface and it's a decent size now.

It is soooo cold here. With the windchill it'll be 22F tonight. Brutally cold. i am not used to it (ie, my muscles cramping up in Praha after a few days walking in the cold.) Class at 9:00. Then the consulting gig for that marketing/liason company at 13:00. That has been really fun. Back into marketing mode. They are working with the European Forestry Commission on a joint venture between Russia, Spain, some other countries. They gave me a synopsis to read. Where the hell is it? Hang on.

Okay, it's Forest Europe. They met in Oslo in June 2011 and agreed on these environmental limits that they will adhere to. The conference on the 15th of Feb. will be interpreted into English and Russian from Spanish. I'm doing a lot with rephrasing things they'll say at the conference because you always have to be careful not to step on anyone's toes at these things (i learned that from Sue and DRF.)

Needless to say, i'm exhausted. But work is work. It's cool. I'll take it. It was really sweet of Carla to recommend me for this job.  And interesting how my two years teaching at 9Ren helped to learn about solar power and EU Environmental Law. American Laura's taught me a lot about the laws too. And the hundreds of things i learned from Sue.

And it's Viernes in a few hours.

New Look

• Pic; playing cribbage with Mum in Praha, drinking the original Budweiser
• About the new masthead - much thanks to Mel for thinking to take this pic of me in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. If ever there was a place i belong, it is the Garden of Exile. And the theme is black now. But you probably already noticed that. 
• Manana is the Welsh Witch's birthday. I'm taking her out for Sushi on Friday. Saturday is Susana's going away party as she is moving to New Orleans. And Monday is the Stupor Bowl! And Tuesday is Robanukah, the 1 year anniversary of Bender Tuesday. What a freaking weekend!
• When i was in grammar scvhool i was voted most likely to create my own religious holiday and most likely to be charged with manslaughter. And now i have created my own religious holiday! And i have never been charged with manslaughter (to date.)
• Almost done doing the Facturas (bills) to the academies. I hate doing that. But i will start to get paid manana. Getting paid once a month is idiotic.