I Take Photos

For a brief look at some photos taken from the 23rd floor of a building in the Casa Amarela neighborhood of Recife, please check out this link.

Also, please note the new addition just below the Reef photo in the left column, where other recent photos will now be located!

The Taggage Carousel

Apparently, I have been tagged by Andropolis. So, here go seven utterly and totally random facts about me:

1. I have lived at 15 different addresses in 32 years, covering 7 states and 2 countries.
2. A great pastime from my college days was occasionally driving down random streets where I had never been before just to see where they went. One dark night, after 20 minutes of driving down a winding dirt road, I turned a sharp corner to find my headlights illuminating a large bull. He was standing peacefully across both "lanes" of the road with a serene look in his eye that seemed to say, as only nocturnal bovine stares caught by car headlights can, "this road's mine and I ain't movin'." I decided that I would prefer not to be the one to attempt to change his mind. This fun time-killer was recently abandoned when I turned two blocks off of a main avenue in Recife and almost dropped my car into a swamp in the middle of what appeared to be the Vietnamese jungle. I've discovered there are some roads that I can live with not knowing exactly where they go.
3. I defy anyone to name a single software program ever invented that is better than Google Earth. It can't be done.
   
4. Often, while dreaming, I am able to convince myself that the dream is true, because I remember clearly something that happened earlier. I tell myself, "yes, this must really be happening, because I know that already happened and I wasn't dreaming about that, so this must be true, too." This logic never fails to convince, except for the fact that when I wake up, I realize that the other thing never happened either.
5. Growing up, I would at times participate in an activity that consisted of dousing various objects with rubbing alcohol and lighting them on fire. Sometimes the objects included hands and arms. Apparently the goal was to see who could keep the body part in question aflame longer. Miraculously, other than singed hairs, I can recall no injuries from this activity.
6. I don't know for what purpose mankind was put on this Earth, but I do know that it wasn't to spend 16 hours in a row in a São Paulo airport.
   
7. I think it's a good thing that there is no way to connect to the Internet intravenously. Yet.
   

Since I don't believe that there are actually 7 people that even read this blog, rather than tagging anyone else, I would kindly ask for you to click back on Andrew's post (link above) and read the other 6 he tagged if you would like to read more.

THE BIG NEWS

Since word has pretty much already leaked out through all of the family and Bahá'í grapevines, there's no point in hiding it here. In about 8 months time, Jasmin will have a new little brother or sister!