if i have nothing to say, i won't say it.

Cold here. And a hellish journey from Göteborg airport.

Cold, mad & fab Chicago!

Renting a car for a few days! Good to have own wheels –

Stuck in Santa Rosa – luggage not welcome on the bus, find mysterious, non-existent Greyhound bus stop miles down the road… Not a promising start for out trip south to San Francisco.

Leaving DC – heading to Californaey

The worst snowstorm in over 70 years, the Washington Post says

Safe and sound in DC. They let us into the country without a hitch, and first day a resounding success. Utter civility…

-three days in Riga

I study digital media. I was born in the early 70′. I am a dinosaur. My fellow students are 15+ years younger than me – born in another era, on a different planet. We learn roughly the same things from opposite directions; we each hold an end of the stick.
I have been given a peer-award for my blog. Linda, over at The task at hand found me a deserving recipient for the Arte Y Pico award. I am of course honoured. That someone reads what I write is flabbergasting; an award is mystifying.

I used to do pottery. In fact, I used to be a potter. A full year full time course in Derry, learning from the eminent renaissance man, Brian McGee, and I worked for a while as a production thrower. We build and fired electric, gas, raku and wood kilns, nearly blew up the building, made…