XMAS Plans

Yeah Kids! Monday and Tuesday are holidays, and I've got a business meeting Thursday, so I get to telecommunte the other days and spend the whole week next week in Vilnius! Yeah! Get ready Vilnius, here I come!

Fuck Hats...I Mean, Yeah Hats!

A few weeks ago I lost my yellow hat from H&M on the micro bus. I bought a new identical one (but black and white and grey) and matching scarf at H&M in Austria (the chain hasn't hit LT yet) two weeks ago. I was very pleased, cause they were cheap, and I knew they would be awesome, cause the old one was awesome.

And five days after returning to Lithuania I lost it on the micro bus again. I was so pissed I decided never to buy a hat again. Fuck hats, I decided. Who needs 'em? Fuck 'em.

This morning I came to work hatless, planning this angry post, and when I walked into my office I noticed that I hadn't left in on the micro, I left it in my office! Yeah! My beloved hat! I love hats! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!

UPDATE
I finally did lose it, and another one...I'm not on my last hat :(

New York Strike

I spent enough time posting a comment on this subject on dario blog on this subject that i've gotta get to work now. Read about it there, though.

The Real Austria Highlight

The best thing I'm willing to write about Austria that I didn't mention in the first volume is the cheese burger I ate on the way there. I made it before leaving, with blue cheese inside and green pepper instead of lettuce, cause lettuce would have wilted. Smothered in Hellman's mayo and Heinz bbq (not the best bbq but it is the best in Lithuania and perfectly cromulent). Oh man, it was so good...maybe I'll make another one tonight...

austria I

i been inaustria for two weeks almost. i came down with mz colleagues (30 of us) ona bus. the point of this trip was to raise our qualifications. we didnät attend anz training programs, which is what i suspect was our ostensible purpose. we went around seeing schoolsand talking to people who run them and teachers and headmasters and peoplein charge of adult education, which weäll give a stab upon our return.the real achievement for me was making friends with mz counterpart here. sheäs been doing this ten zears, and is verzimpresive (she managed to counter a tremendous amount of incompetence onour part and still put together a good program at the last minute). weäregoing to work together on at least two projects this zear alreadz. she isthe most compentent person i know in this field after mama.

i onlz intended to staz a week, but the person in charge of this project,one of mz bosses, didnät realiye apparentlz that austrians donät speaklithuanian, so she didnät hire a translator for the second week, whenonlz five of us remained Itworked out prettz well, I think, because it turned out that the secondweek would be cancelled if there was no translator, which would have beencatostrophic, and at that point i agreed.

the fortress here is one of the oldest and biggest in europe, itäs toobad i didnät have a camera with me. the mountains here are ginourmousalso. we visisted this one little town on a river that is between twomountains, huge ones, so zou canät look around without having 360 degreesof mountains surrounding zou. it was neat, but after walking around for ahalf hour i said to the austrian tour guide who brought us to see thistown "are thez crayz?! how can thez live here??" and he stares at me andzells "ZES ZES!! THEZ ARE CRAYZ!!!" thez have to live there though if thezwork the salt mines, which is salyburgäs claim to fame, it made thisplace verz wealthz long ago. and moyart was born here. all these localshave the biggest hard on for moyart zou can possiblz imagine, itäs justfreakin sillz. i mean, thez go to see his friggin grandmotheräs housefor christässake. wtf?

The Most Ridiculous One

This is pretty ridiculous. This is a page about a guy with tourette's syndrome. I had to watch these clips with my hand over my face so everyone wouldn't see my dying of laughter (not sure if my ploy worked). After viewing most of them, I gotta say this one is the most amazing, just cause I'm a star wars fan.