Thursday, September 29, 2005
No Longer a Virgin -- My First Post
It's true, I have no idea what I'm doing, but my son Guppyman set this blog up for me so I figured I might as well use it. I hope to get a lot better at this as he teaches me how to do things like post pictures and link to other sites. Right now I am taking a break from the evil paperwork: I am a salesman (industrial equipment), like all salesmen I hate paperwork, and it is our year end, so there are many reports. Come on, people, you've seen the sales call reports, you've seen the orders, you know what I've done, so why do I have to tell you again!
The Professor & I just got back from a trip to Romania. We had some interesting experiences and I will write more about those (with pictures), but while we were there we learned about Hurricane Rita heading for Galveston. I was worried about my family, especially my 85 year old mother & one granddaughter whose parents are 1st responders. No, I wasn't worried -- I was frantic. It took me 10 hours to make a phone call home. I bought 3 phone cards, all guaranteed to work -- none did. I finally begged someone to make the call for me, said I'd pay anything -- luckily she didn't overcharge me but, believe me, I wouldn't have cared. Once I knew everyone was out of Houston & safe, I went back to enjoying myself. We tracked the storm through internet cafes. There is nothing quite like being on the internet in a 600 year old building. When those buildings were built it took all day to go 10 miles and now you can see what's going on on the other side of the world in real time. Mind-boggling, isn't it.
The Professor & I just got back from a trip to Romania. We had some interesting experiences and I will write more about those (with pictures), but while we were there we learned about Hurricane Rita heading for Galveston. I was worried about my family, especially my 85 year old mother & one granddaughter whose parents are 1st responders. No, I wasn't worried -- I was frantic. It took me 10 hours to make a phone call home. I bought 3 phone cards, all guaranteed to work -- none did. I finally begged someone to make the call for me, said I'd pay anything -- luckily she didn't overcharge me but, believe me, I wouldn't have cared. Once I knew everyone was out of Houston & safe, I went back to enjoying myself. We tracked the storm through internet cafes. There is nothing quite like being on the internet in a 600 year old building. When those buildings were built it took all day to go 10 miles and now you can see what's going on on the other side of the world in real time. Mind-boggling, isn't it.
4 Comments:
OMG You did it!!!!!
I knew you'd be a blogger before too long!
Welcome to the world of blogging. I can;t wait to hear about your trip. My kids gave me my blog and I had no idea what ai was going to do with it. THat was a yea and a half and a ton of posts ago. Have fun
Welcome to the blogging worls Guppy's mom!
Can't wait to hear about your trip. Adding you to my blogroll now.
Hello, I'm visiting from the UK, via Guppyman. Welcome to BlogWorld! :).
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