Strictly speaking, it is not the fault of Lenovo that I am sitting here, some two hours later, attempting to salvage my over-30-gigabyte Lightroom library while wondering if I am going to be able to recover anything else from the HDD of my former Y510p. I would argue that it is Lenovo’s fault that I …
The past week has been far, far too warm (and hey, the news officially declared a canicule so we have that going for us), so we slunk off to La défense this weekend; tourism is down so far this year that even the nicer hotels (like, for example, the Hilton in CNIT) are cheap at …
Sometimes you just need to commune with the mineral water.
One of the windows on the back side of our building was open. To this point, we had ignored their existence (largely because they are rarely open).
While I finally took a look through the pictures that I took while we were in Poland last weekend, I have made essentially no progress on writing either the associated post or the captions. So here’s a picture of a screaming octopus kite, taken last night as we sat on the esplanade in front of …
We have had a few interesting visitors recently…
Today marked my first experience with teargas. Hopping off of the 13 at Invalides, an acrid smell hung in the air. At first I though it was a technical issue with the train, as the smell strongly resembled that of very hot metal (something I’ve inhaled my fair share of, due to periodically having been …
While feeding a pigeon that visits our balcony, the baguette in the Purrito’s hand was intercepted by one of the cats. After we looked at one another and said “no, he wouldn’t,” she held the baguette still, and the furry little bastard did. Now I know who is responsible for gnawing on the bread when …
We’re in the midst of a recuperation weekend; the Purrito’s brief voyage back to Texas was draining to the point that we abandoned the normal keep-her-awake-by-running-around plans in favor of chilling chez nous. All of which is supposed to provide a coherent establishing story to why I found myself standing on our balcony staring at …
Easter is the best holiday because it is the holiday for which the best candy is produced. Additionally, the it’s-good-if-there-is-a-chicken-on-it theory remains true.
Fezzik In Paris 