Old Tweets
I obviously see this as a bad thing, just to clarify…
visited an old Catholic church in jakrta & recognized the dreadful music. Post Vatican II church songs: the polo shirt of sacred music.
Bumper sticker seen in Jakarta: don’t worry what others think, they do it so rarely anyway.
@mslongjr homey-ohs don’t joke about their homeys’ prostate -pathies!!! Hahaha
@elainethebrain I was kidding, I’m cool with marriage. Just not as a medical prescription….
@mslongjr hahaha, well, I think he was just happily recommending marriage, really…
3 chapters till this freelance thing is dispatched into the land of bad memories! Whew!
@mslongjr Eh? I am not a Gynaeopath!!!
@elainethebrain Live longer? Maybe those who aren’t driven off bridges by their marriages. 🙂 They say people who pray live longer too? Pbbt
@aclipscomb Haha, he was grandfatherly. But, um, he was talking about prostate health.
@splinister Woah, I didn’t know that! Thanks!
Also, an Indonesian doctor prescribed marriage to me today. “It’s good for your health.” Um, okay. Otherwise perfect physician, tho.
Ding Dong, the freelance project is almost dead!
@elainethebrain Ooh, I’ll get you for getting this stuck in my head! 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/ygbjcfn
Probably because they spent 1 minute cleaning and 5 minutes talking about the 1 minute done so far, looking off the balcony, and so on…
Two guys in the apartment now, “cleaning the balcony” — ie. scraping it. This will take 2 hours. No idea why.
Feeling much better now… say, 90% to normal?
@Kate_Baker @aliettedb Thanks! I’m doing well on crackers right now, and holding up. 🙂 Probably be fine in a day or three… 🙂
Yeah, this Plague is passing, so it seems. But If fever strikes again tonight, I shall seek a physician…
@JamesTurnbull But it’s nice to be here with Miss Jiwaku. 🙂 Excuse me, nature calls. (Screams!)
@JamesTurnbull though of course there are good things too… I imagine if I were outside Jakarta I’d be having more fun…
@JamesTurnbull Huh… don’t envy me too much… some elements of staying here are quite unpleasant…
@JamesTurnbull btw saw that site (somehow) a week or two ago. Interesting enough to browse, but not to bookmark…
@JamesTurnbull James… well, just till March, you know. I’ll be in Korea for next (uni) semester…
Good news: my fever & intestinal gaaah probably not typhus. Bad news: feel like I went through a meat grinder.
Neat post on Avatar by a friend of mine: http://smackshack.livejournal.com/51477.html?view=105493#t105493
Saw my second burqa of the trip. It’s been 3 weeks. Saw also suggestive book title: _Islam Not Dead in Indonesia_. Hmmm. Not dead?
By the way, if you’re in Indonesia and need a net connection, don’t mess around: CBN hotspots, prepaid card. Holy crap: close to decent.
Here I am, at Pondok Inda 2, having a nice coffee, reading, & trying to get work done on The Freelance Project That Refused to F***ing Die!
@jeremiahtolbert It’s partly because of taxes, and partly because of health concerns, that hops became the standard. (Among other reasons.)
@jeremiahtolbert And I think they were a little more widely used, till the Church & various national legal systems limited bittering agents
@jeremiahtolbert Well, juniper berries (and branches) *are* used, but not commonly. Finnish folk especially use them for sahti.
@indiefulrok Wow, that’s never happened to me in Korea, though once I *thought* the machine ate the card. Just forgot getting the card back!
Hate when ATM swallows credit card, forcing one to return to the city next morning to get back from bank teller. ARGH. Second time this week
@jeremiahtolbert ripe ivy berries? WTF? BTW, I discovered Chinese Juniper’s available in Korea. Gonna brew me some sahti! http://is.gd/6gjsZ
@jeremiahtolbert but what sort of berries, dude? juniper, perhaps? maybe it’s an early gin recipe, not a cure for plague!
@ShawnScarber yup, and when it’s the double-ended type — upper and lower digestive tract at once — it’s the worst. But okay now! Whew!
Food poisoning gone, at the apt, hangig out and up late this Sunday morning! (Studying Burmese history, need to make a call..)
@alexiskienlen yeah, here till Feb 28th! (with side trips planned, of course…) happy new year alexis!
The worst of the food poisoning seems to be over, thank goodness… feeling mostly human again…
RT @kellyyoungberg: RT @BadAstronomer: 400 years ago tonight, Galileo changed the world and the Universe: http://is.gd/5RKpb
@aliettedb good on you!!!
Is hating the foodpoisoning vut assuming it was bound to happen… Better now than later!
@nkjemisin Human nature, I guess. Liking the book… 🙂
@nkjemisin Ha, but I’m reading your ARC right now! 🙂 (At page 255 or so!) BTW — it’s hot and I am almost wishing to see snow. Human nature
@nalohopkinson also, scary: http://tinyurl.com/y9vs65a wish I could vote, but I’m nonresident…
@nalohopkinson it might have been old news? The Prorogating Parliament thing. http://tinyurl.com/yg8buwo Effing bastard…
I’m in Jakarta, where it’s nice and warm. And you’re not. Nyah nyah.
Oh, and happy new year!
Wow, Stephen Harper really is a bag of scum. Is the whole West regressing to serfdom, or just North America?