There was a Friday Five a few weeks ago that asked what is the farthest you have ever traveled from home, so I decided to calculate it. From Houston, Texas it is:
– 5364 miles (8632 km) to Nurnberg, Germany.
– 5430 miles (8739 km) to Munich, Germany.
– 5499 miles (8850 km) to Salzburg, Austria.
– 5560 miles (8948 km) to Venice, Italy.
– 5708 miles (9186 km) to Rome, Italy.
Just in case you ever wondered.
Upon my return from Austin, I hadn’t really had time to play with Robert’s site. Now I am in there popping the bubbles and let me just say it’s almost as much fun as playing with bubble wrap! And the Flash Pong is addictive. Ok, that’s probably not the point of his design site, but I’m having fun! (Make sure you have your sound on so you can truly enjoy it!)
Reading Big Fat Blog reminded me of something I observed in Austin while out at Polly Esthers. They are more excepting of the non-twig women. The ones with curvy figures. Here in Houston, any time I go to any club I feel ignored because I am not a size 2 and never will be. It’s quite demeaning. In Austin though, I noticed many other women my size (that would be somewhere between a 12 & a 16 depending on the brand of clothes) and larger who were being hit on, flirted with, and picked up. I felt like it was ok to be me. It was a good feeling, and reminded me once again why I am not a big fan of Houston.
I have not had a productive enough day. I’m still recovering from SXSW. I went to sleep last night by 9:45pm again. So, let’s see: Sunday night, in bed at 2:30am. Monday night, 4:30am. Tuesday night, 4:00am. Wednesday night, 9:15pm. Thursday night, 12:30am. Friday night, 9:45pm. Tonight … who knows. It’s getting close to midnight & I am sleepy. No wonder my body is still feeling sluggish, it can’t figure out when it’s supposed to sleep! Thursday & Friday morning I was up by 7:30am. This morning I woke up at 4:30am, read until 6:30am and then slept past noon. There is so much I want to do, but it’s too much. I can’t figure out where to start even. So I cleaned the kitchen & vacuumed the whole apartment. That made me feel a little better. Then I have been looking at my SXSW photos. I need to resize them before I can put them online, but I’m too tired to do them all. I want to run Gallery like Pamela used for hers, but my sleepy brain can’t follow the installation instructions. I might just dump my photos into a directory for the time being and let you rummage through them there.
Jason returns from Minnesota at noon tomorrow. He has been having a blast up there in Winona, Forest Lake & Wyoming. Yes, Wyoming, Minnesota. A city. Named Wyoming. It confused the heck out of me at first too. They got snow while he was there, he got to go sledding, build snowmen and have snowball fights. I think they decided against the ice fishing as the fish weren’t really biting, but he did get to “walk on water” out on the Mississippi in Winona, he end up taking all his saltwater fishing rods and reels home.
I have almost caught up on shows on the Tivo. I think I’ll finish this Crossing Jordan and then head to bed. Still have a few Law & Order episodes and a Call for Help left, but they can wait until tomorrow.