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T Minus Two And One Day: Paralysis
Hang on: not so fast!What I did for the move yesterday:Nothing.What I've done so far today:Nothing.What still needs to be done:Not quite everything. And it's the "not quite" that gives me hope. There's...
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T Minus One: Full-Bore Panic
Dang, where did all this crap come from? And why can't I find what I'm looking for?In one week, early in the morning (well, they said 8am, which is plenty early for me) a truckload of movers from...
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T Minus Three Days: This Will Happen
The Future Is...Now!I've been a good boy today, and so it is without guilt that I sit down for a brief update of the move.What I have done: given away a lot of things, including things that have yet to...
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Goodbye To The Slum
It all happened so quickly after not happening so quickly.For the past few days, I'd been wrestling with boxes that EP had brought over in small quantities (disassembled, they're unwieldy, and he has...
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France: The Last Days
The Slum cleared out, I moved to a hotel for two nights. I'd been curious about the Hotel d'Aragon, a nondescript-looking three-star around the corner that consistently got good ratings from the likes...
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L'Envoi
One last observation about Montpellier, written from 7000 miles away in Texas.There was a place to eat I always wanted to recommend, but never did for a very good reason: it was downstairs from my...
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Next Chapter
"You're like a ghost. You don't show up anywhere," said the real estate agent. He represented the landlord of a place I'd seen and really liked. There was a little stream in the back yard, named Turtle...
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Migas
Well, why not? When I did my Berlin blog, I called it BerlinBites, and when I discovered I had a bunch of little things for the blog that didn't cohere into a single post, I called them "crumbs." I got...
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Opening King Tut's Tomb
I've spent most of the past couple of weeks hauling a couple of boxes of books in from the garage each day, going through them, discarding the ones most eaten by rodents and insects (not nearly as many...
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Europe vs. America: The Food, Part 1
Okay, I understand. You're not interested in the fact that on Tuesday the rest of my stuff arrived here and the garage and the rest of the house got packed with even more stuff.The white boxes and the...
View ArticleFirst Migas of 2014
Odd Sign of the Year (so far): A church I pass frequently is displaying on their sign the message "Attend a local church in 2014." Now, the general tenor of this message is one I basically support,...
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Big
Hang on. Just wait a dang minute here.We will sing the praises of Chinese cleavers in a future post.Something happened to jalapenos while I was away. Actually, a couple of things. First, they used to...
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February Migas (Before It's Gone)
Okay, this is much more like it:I think that's even the same quarter.Last weekend, acting on a tip from one of my Facebook friends, I went and bought some more jalapenos. This time, instead of heading...
View ArticleSXSW 2014: I Was There (Sorta)
Still am, for that matter: my phone just made a noise and is reminding me that the softball game starts in about 30 minutes. Sometime after that I'll jump in the car and go over. This is one SXSW event...
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Pardon The Gap
You know, you're not supposed to go months at a time without posting when you have a blog. But since February, I've been reluctant to post because I wasn't sure what, exactly, to write about. SXSW gave...
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Maytime Migas
Creturs: I've always loved the way Davy Crockett spelled this word, which gives a clue as to how he pronounced it, most likely. (It's also a reminder that, as a semi-literate backwoodsman serving in...
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Tanz(hallen) Im Mai
Yesterday I had the opportunity to do something I'd been wanting to do for a long time, although I hadn't really been aware how much I'd wanted to do it. I've known Steve Dean for a long time, ever...
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More May Migas
I had what I can only describe as a stupid revelation the other day when I realized that the main reason I was eating as well as I am is not because of the quality of the ingredients I was buying (when...
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Midyear Migas
Sorry about the long silence. It's been over a month since my last post. At first, I was holding off until the second half of the dancehall tour happened, but circumstances intervened (Steve's now got...
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The Travails of Toothless Ed
At first, unbearable pain sent me to a dentist in Berlin, Dr. Basic. Which is how the friends who took me there pronounced his name, like basic training or something. But when he talked, it was obvious...
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