While I was out

It's feast or famine here, and right now I'm about a week behind in putting up items from whatever it is that I have been doing over the past week.  

I blame the road blocks.

As I do a horrible job of playing catch up, let me throw in a few thoughts from things that I have discovered over the past week:

1.  It's really cool when you are asked to escort an admiral around an African city and it turns out that he was (and still is) a hockey player. And you can talk North Stars hockey with him.
2. Do you remember what Picasso said when asked for his thoughts on the moon landing? That's how I feel about the royal wedding.
3.  The Bruins continue to simultaneously exasperate and amaze me. It's pretty bad when you wake up in a random African country and have to text someone in another African country in order to get the Game 7 score because you have no internet. Did you know that Tim Thomas practices yoga? I am pretty skeptical nervous about the semifinals that start today, and am still mildly traumatized by last year's epic collapse against Philadelphia.
4.  I get a little more depressed each time I log on to BBC's Africa section and read about another country that's going a little haywire. A few days ago it was Morocco, today it's Uganda.
5. You can find traces of home in the random countries you frequent:            

My family will understand this photo.

One other thing:

Shh don't tell anyone- but a big part of me really misses being a SWO.


Of course I recognize that once you are off that 9200 ton steel torture chamber, you only remember the good parts....but I still have a bit of la nostalgie.

More to follow soon. Inch'allah.