Fezzik In Paris

Two Americans, three cats, and too many places named "de Gaulle"

Troubleshooting internet issues at home isn’t what I’d normally consider fun, but troubleshooting them in a completely different country, and more to the point, somewhere that you have no control over anything beyond your computer, is agonizingly frustrating. And time-intensive. And entirely required, if it’s your only link back to home.  

Beginnings are hard. The difficulty of a given beginning is complicated by the number of concurrent beginnings and their size; thus a new job with the same home is difficult, but manageable, as is a new home with the same job. Then there is changing both your job and your home (or even worse, your …

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paris is and is not what one expects. the drive from the airport was entirely expected, in that the taxi that I was in had, by my count, a minimum of six near misses with other taxis and the various other small cars. one expects airports and indeed, the surrounding areas to be industrial looking, …

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