Fuck a Duck! The planes are all delayed. I hope tomorrow's flights are OK and there's no fucking snowstorm. I hate changing planes! :-)

IT'S THE IDES OF MARCH, THE IDES OF MARCH! BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!
On this day, the Ides of March 44BC, Julius Ceasar was stabbed, fatally.
ET TU, BRUTUS?
I tried to synchronize my trip so I could be in Rome for the Ides of March but I couldn't get the time off. :-( Allors. I'm off to Roma on Sunday!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

The Batty Maccaca has suggested that one must publish one's favorite spots to reside on our little blue dot so here goes:

#5 London, UK-Jolly ol'England. God Save the Queens. Great city, great ethnic food, great markets on Portobello Road, great pubs (shout out for the Prince of Wales on Old Brompton Road), great mix of people, great history, Great Britain!
#4 Copenhagen, Denmark-Great people, great history, cute homes, hyggelig (loosely translates as cozyness), Great Danes!
#3 Paris-Ah Paris, je t'aime. What else to say? I'd run off here in a hearbeat and live in Le Marais and spend hours on the Ile-Ste.-Louis painting in my beret!
#2 Washington, D.C.-Home sweet home. Love you boo, great city lousy politicians, great museums, great ethnic food, great monuments, Dupont Circle!
#1 San Francisco-went there in 2002 and fell madly in love with it. The fog rolling in over Golden Gate Bridge, priceless. Great people, open minds, easy access to wine country.

Honorable mentions for places to run off to when I've had my midlife crisis/40 year heart attack/nervous breakdown

#5 Reykjavik, Iceland-Fun people, ice ice and more ice. Pickled Ram's testicles and putrid shark meat to boot!
#4 Buenos Aires, Argentina-no one will find me here, all the steak to eat and chimichurri sauce, balconies galore for singing "Don't Cry for me Argentina."
#3 Pacific Beach, CA-Surfs up!
#2- Torrey Pines, CA- Turquoise beaches, beach bummery.
#1- Helsingoer, Denmark-Quiet contemplation with Hamlet.

Well, I only have one entry up about Buenos Aires and I am too lazy to update and do all the photo adding thingamabob to it so if you want to see all my B.A. pics and their respective explanations, check out my flickr site at http://flickr.com/photos/54659588@N00.

Allors, so I have started a new position at work. I now have my first desk job in 4 years. I am excited but need the aid and assistance from a small little coffee company from Seattle because desk jobs sometimes lull me into oblivion. Anyhoo, the MBA is coming along fine. I did a paper on corporate social responsibility and shat (or is it shitted) all over Milton Friedman's bullshit theories.

I'm off to the Eternal City next Sunday and will spend my birthday at the Vatican, like the good little Catholic I am, even though I am heathen! :-) What a difference between birthday 30 and 31. 30 was filled with more wanton debauchery than one man should be entitled to handle and 31 is spent in quiet piety on the steps of Saint Peter's Basilica. Hmmm.

Before I forget:

REST IN PEACE MR. HUMPHRIES!!!!

He's probably taking an "inside leg" at the Grace Brothers' Store in the sky! :-)