a friend

this last weekend taught me a lot about friendship. i was almost becoming a bit bitter about that thingy but thanks to nice reunion with this girl i know again that bounds of friendship lead across the countries and months. thanks.

never was

this is a good one, saw on internet, maybe said by somebody famous, maybe just a line of a raper...

if you love something let it go.
if it comes back to you it's yours.
if it doesn't it never was.

big bro

it seems the big brother is going to be reality, and even in our little town. a company providing water and electricity is offering 100 mbps fibre. um, 90 out of 100 is dedicated for phone and telly. but even 10 left gives speed to download 20 mb in 16 seconds. price? 88 euro monthly, no installation fee.

my favourite three windmills on my way to the work mysteriously disappeared i would swear overnight. this is what is left, a little romantic lake.



um, talking about romantics... got a bit moody last days...

counting days

sunday's trip to west coast.



slushing through l'ecume des jours... i've just restarted my swimming stereotype and found out i can do counting without any tools. i just count up to twenty. the med was not to think about issues i could break my brain from without getting a point.

circle

so the circle has closed, i'm back in europe and there's a couple of thoughts, recommendations and the very last pictures.

dana and andrew are nice people busy with their lifestyle of studies, good work and interesting friends. on friday, i enjoyed them in a group of another active people in tv turn off action (why? "on average, a child witnesses average 8,000 murders on television by age 12"). depois, falei portugues no sabado a tarde com amigas de dana de leccaos de portugues brazil. and in the saturday's evening, we watched the corporation with another bunch of friends.

i already wrote about biking around dc on sunday while the guys were doing their studies. more photos.





in the evening, we watched another great movie, invisible children. i heartily recommend this very funny movie about very serious causa to everybody.

then there's time to leave... last shower with three taps, the smallest plane and directions to vienna.



and then i'm back, after hot atlanta, freezing cleveland and blossoming dc back in not-yet-green dinamarka.

sky mall

i'll be soon landing the seventh of eight flights in the last fourteen days and i'm again skimming through the bizarre sky mall magazine. i could order very funny stuff from those 200 pages, like:

• starwars popcorn machine,
• electronic card shuffler,
• digital wine cooler/warmer,
• hedgehog cheerful smile garden sculpture,
• alarm clock with bird chirping,
• "dog off" handheld unit that protects you again hostile dogs,
• automatic self-opening pet food tray,
• flea zapper comb which kills fleas instantly using a low electric charge,
• talking bottle opener,
• dual showerhead,
• touchless trash can, a completely foot- and hands-free waste-disposal system,
• all those crazy baseball and golf computerized tools,
• copyrighted "fishnets & heels" sculptural table (yuck),
• a lamp, life-size woman wih a shade instead of head (yuuuck),
• storage center which holds up to 53 batteries,
• full vga video in startrek-like glases.

i mean, some or even most of the stuff makes sense, like not touching the trash lid by hands, but still, i haven't seen anything like this in europe before...

george

earlier in the afternoon i went to national gallery. so many things to see!

holocaust

i'm having a special time in holocaust museum in d.c. since i went out with andrew's bike this afternoon, i've got a couple of interesting synchronicities, with music, people i think about, paintings in national gallery. my shuffle played zuzana navarovaa, who died of cancer last winter. i saw my birthplace town's name in here on a wall, as there was jewish community once there, too. and i saw the book of esther.