Posted by: GeekHiker | November 13, 2012

Magnetic Memories

Tonight I opened the “domestic box”; the box in which I packed away all the books, pamphlets, souvenirs and such that I collected on the road trip last year.  Thankfully, I’d had the foresight to organize it a bit when I was laying over in Sacramento between road trip and the international leg, so everything is neatly in chronological order, rubber-banded into little stacks.

In one corner of the box I found a small white paper bag, a few inches square and about an inch thick.  I picked it up and was surprised how heavy it was for such a small package, and wondered what on Earth could be inside.  Unfolding the top, I reached inside and pulled out a small stack of magnets. Read More…

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Posted by: GeekHiker | November 8, 2012

Questions And… Questions

It seems I’m filled with more questions than answers at the moment, doesn’t it?

This seems strange to me.  After all, most of the accounts I’ve read of people who took gap years returned from them with fulfillment, direction, insight.  Instead, I find myself filled with more questions rattling around in my head than answers, trying to come up with solutions and, it seems, failing at every turn.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | November 1, 2012

Fri, June 28, 1990

Before I started out on my “grand adventure”, I disposed of a lot of things as part of the moving process.  Since I returned, along with job-searching and soul-searching and everything else, I’ve been on an even bigger tear to get rid of stuff.  Like so many of us, I simply have too much.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | October 22, 2012

Signs…?

Wow.  Any way you look at it, moving sucks.  Particularly when you’re not sure if you can even afford the place that you’re moving in to.

Thank goodness for the short-term lease.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | October 1, 2012

Catching Up

Here’s a question for y’all: I’ve been too busy for the last year to keep up with all the blogs I’ve been reading over the years, let alone blog myself.

Which, of course, leaves me with a whole lot of stuff unread in my feed reader.  Tons and tons of stuff.  Put it all together, and it would probably be longer than one of those Harry Potter books.  Maybe even longer than War and Peace.  Or even this book.  (Okay, as that book is 4,211 pages, maybe I’m exagarating a bit.)

So, what do I do?

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Posted by: GeekHiker | September 26, 2012

Home Is Where The Frustration Is

My parents are truly wonderful people.  And I’m not even saying that with some ulterior motive: as an only child, I don’t have to out-ass-kiss any siblings to try and get my share of the inheritance.  Yep, that’s a truly honest sentiment I’m expressing there.

Since I returned to the States in mid-July following, for lack of a better word, a bit of “drama” abroad, they’ve openly allowed me to stay at their place.  They’ve given me lodging, allowed me to park my car in their garage, start looking for work and my career path, and let me partake of their food.  All without charging me rent.

Which is why I’m pretty sure it makes me a horribly ungrateful bastard of a son to admit that living with my parents is driving me up the frakking wall.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | September 21, 2012

Dreams Of Space

Space Shuttle Endeavor flew over California today, making a scenic tour over the State Capitol, San Francisco, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Los Angeles basin before touching down at LAX.  Endeavor will eventually end up at the California Science Center in Exposition Park, a choice apparently made because so much of the development, testing, and manufacturing Shuttle components was done in Southern California.

Being a few miles off the flight path, I missed seeing it in person, but was still able to observe it by streaming the video online.  I didn’t tear up, as some did, but seeing the Shuttle did bring back some childhood memories.

I dreamed of being a Shuttle astronaut.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | August 23, 2012

Always Playing Defense

I know, I know.  You’ve come here expecting tales of travel and wild adventure.

I’ll get to that.  Promise.  Really.  Sorting 18,000 photos, as it turns out, takes a little time.  Time I don’t have because I’m not allocating time for it.  For the time being, I can’t… or at least I feel that I can’t.

And you have no idea, gentle reader, how much I wish I could make editing 18,000 pictures the primary use of my day.

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Posted by: GeekHiker | August 7, 2012

If You Post A Post On The Internet, And No One Reads It…

Where do I begin?  The cursor on my screen is blanking impatiently, demanding an answer.

“At the beginning” is what they always say.  At the moment, though, everything is kind of, well, mushy.

“Mushy?”  Did I seriously just type “mushy”?  Have my writing skills (or, at the very least, my vocabulary) really atrophied that much in the past few months?

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Posted by: GeekHiker | April 9, 2012

Criminy!

Okay, so somewhere, somehow, five weeks in New Zealand just blew by.  And all I’ve managed to write about is Auckland.  Sheesh.

I’ll try to get some more stuff up as I can.  What’s really holding me back at the moment has been the cost of internet access in New Zealand, which is high priced (usually on the order of a dollar per megabyte) and slow.  Hence the reason for so few pics as well.

I can only assume that the backbone network in the country consists of kiwis running back and forth with the data bytes in their little beaks.

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