Monday, 16th of April, 2007

Yep, we’re stuck in San Francisco. We were packing this morning and I rang Victor, Jordan’s uncle in New York at one of whose apartments we’re staying there… and he mentioned that we might be delayed when we got there, because there’s huge storms there right now (apparently abating though).
Shortly after which Ange was looking on the American Airlines site and discovered that it looked like our flight had been cancelled! Not that they’d, like, told us yet - I guess they have lots of people to tell, but anyway, not only stuck but the first flight they offered us was for Tuesday morning! Ange managed to get them to find a flight leaving at midday tomorrow (Monday) to St Louis and then on to New York (arriving 10:45pm), so we’re missing a day of New York and having a day of travel. American Airlines were fabulously unhelpful really - as the guy at reception at the hotel said, “Welcome to US airlines”.
Yup.

Anyway, lots of reading will be caught up on. I do owe a whole week’s worth of travelblogging, which I hope to get to shortly! For now, suffice to say that San Francisco is an awesome place. Among the places visited are the best comics shop in America, probably the best science fiction specialist bookshop, and a couple of awesome record stores… But there’s so many awesome little bookshops too, there’s the SFMOMA and a bunch of other great art galleries/museums, lots of cool/funky areas and so on. So yeah.
Also met up with and hung out with my old friend Karen, which was lovely too.
Details to come soon!

Thursday, 12th of April, 2007

Oh hell. Kurt Vonnegut is dead. His body of work has been hugely important to me for many years. I haven’t read much of his recent stuff, but he means a lot to me. Sad now.

Yes, I have a big travel-blog post queued up but I’m doing other stuff, m’kay? It’ll get posted tomorrow, San Francisco time, for sure! Suffice to say, SF is awesome!

Monday, 9th of April, 2007

Yep, from tomorrow (er, that would be today’s date), Angela and I are heading overseas on a fabulous jaunt, taking in San Francisco, New York, Montreal and Chicago. I hope to keep up the travel blogging while we’re away, as will Ange, so you can get twice the bang for your buck this time through!
Expect the run-down on all the record stores, bookshops (especially the science-fiction-oriented and second-hand) and comics shops along the way, as well as all the good eatin’ we can get in, fine hot chocolates, and walks around foreign cities.
And I hope to hire a bike in at least San Francisco at some point! Stay tuned…

Saturday, 7th of April, 2007

xkcd OTM again

“OTM”, you ask? Sorry, you may need to read more ilX to understand that, or somewhere like that. OTM = “on the money” or “on the mark”, okeys?