All roads lead to Roma
Jul 02, 2010 16:29 Filed in: Life
There is some guilt associated with not posting here
regularly, especially with me posting so many
pictures. Well, this is to coincide with uploading
106 pictures from Rome where I spent a week at the
annual
EULAR
meeting. I had a wonderful time, though I was
overwhelmed and impressed with the Vatican
(especially St Peter’s Basilica) and the Pantheon.
Rome was beautiful. I walked the streets all over and
everywhere I went I was surrounded by ancient sites
and historic buildings. Fashion is clearly king as
all around the non-tourist areas I found custom
designer clothing stores, as well as gelato shops
and, of course, various Italian food restaurants
everywhere. The latter wouldn’t have been bad if
there were at least a bit of variety (give me a
little Thai or Chinese to help cleanse my palette of
mozzarella, tomato and basil 
). I know, there’s a lot more to
Italian food than that, but clearly I’m a picky
foody. (it didn’t stop me from having Italian in
Omaha 3 days after my return)
We had our normal string of heavy thunderstorms in throughout June. Most of the cats’ room in the basement had water on the floor. Absolutely amazing storms, but losing electricity multiple times does change your opinion on them. It also made me value using my cell phone for my Internet & alarm.
I’m using Google Buzz to share my links these days as well as Facebook for the regular short updates. Please look to those places for more regular links, but I’ll do my best to put up some of the best links here. I have this space for a reason, right?!
The holiday weekend is upon me, as the street is full of cars parked for an event hours away. The college world series is over. USA is out of the World Cup & Ghana just lost in the most heart-breaking game of all. I’ve weeded my yard twice already as the long winter has meant everything is growing twice as tall as normal (and twice as beautiful, flowers everywhere!). The rubber tree I made a last-ditch effort to keep alive is now thriving outside (as my dark office and the threat of the cats make my home inhospitable to any other living things - even bugs, which is a fair trade).
I hope you like the new purple style. The previous one kept on cutting off some of my links on the right. Now I’ll have to come up with something to replace it (so this may be temporary).
Thanks for your patience!
). I know, there’s a lot more to
Italian food than that, but clearly I’m a picky
foody. (it didn’t stop me from having Italian in
Omaha 3 days after my return)
We had our normal string of heavy thunderstorms in throughout June. Most of the cats’ room in the basement had water on the floor. Absolutely amazing storms, but losing electricity multiple times does change your opinion on them. It also made me value using my cell phone for my Internet & alarm.
I’m using Google Buzz to share my links these days as well as Facebook for the regular short updates. Please look to those places for more regular links, but I’ll do my best to put up some of the best links here. I have this space for a reason, right?!
The holiday weekend is upon me, as the street is full of cars parked for an event hours away. The college world series is over. USA is out of the World Cup & Ghana just lost in the most heart-breaking game of all. I’ve weeded my yard twice already as the long winter has meant everything is growing twice as tall as normal (and twice as beautiful, flowers everywhere!). The rubber tree I made a last-ditch effort to keep alive is now thriving outside (as my dark office and the threat of the cats make my home inhospitable to any other living things - even bugs, which is a fair trade).
I hope you like the new purple style. The previous one kept on cutting off some of my links on the right. Now I’ll have to come up with something to replace it (so this may be temporary).
Thanks for your patience!
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