Apartment Tour

For a virtual apartment tour, here are some pictures. I tried adding humorous tags, but it was a royal pain, and I'm pretty sure that most stuff is self explanatory... except the door... I'm still working on that one...

Living room:

Kitchen

My side of the 2 bedroom

and... the door.
It has, count them, FIVE deadbolts... you turn the key four full turns to the left, pull the doorknob (not pictured here, but egg-shaped and in the center of the door) towards you, then push the door in. This door is AFTER two exterior locks, each with a different key, and a Buzzer. Just in case...

Some pictures

In the guise of pretending to avoid Facebook while I'm in Rome, I'll post some pictures here.
This is the view I woke up to while flying from London to Rome. Well hello, Alps!
Descending into Rome. You can just make out the rainbow near the planes wing.


Rose petals pouring through the Pantheon's occulus for Pentecost mass.
A view into the courtyard from our apartment's kitchen window.

So Close!

After everything has gone wrong here in the States, I can only hope that my trip is, at least negatively, uneventful. That is to say, I hope everything goes right in Rome.

At last count:

The British Airways strike is still in dispute, but has been, as of Wednesday, called off. My flight, however, remains canceled due to the "complexity of the negotiation time-table". Whatever, I'm still paying for something I'm not getting, and I still have to pay for another ticket. BA won't give me a refund, because I booked through Orbitz and not them...
Orbitz won't give me a refund unless I cancel the whole ticket. And even though I've called Orbitz, they still won't stop calling me with their stupid automatic message telling me to call them. Less than pleased. I'll probably come home to no less than 317 unheard messages from various sources...

The cloud of Ash from (insert name of unpronounceable Icelandic volcano here) has dissipated as of Monday, and many airlines are temporarily allowing airlines to operate in higher-than-normal ash densities. This most likely happened to prevent the airlines from losing any more money, but hey, I'm not complaining. Here's hoping this little piece of good luck holds out until Sunday. I'm still nervous. As a kicker, here's a satellite image of the volcano.

The tally so far: Trip logistics: 3
me: 1

È finito finalmente

Eternally cool

In theory, this blog is about Rome. In reality, it's about all sorts of things you'll probably think are really cool. Do read.

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Baubble

I found this watch gear in Seattle for $1 so I bought it. I just put it on a little brass chain I had laying around and poof- instant necklace.

Seattle Drawings

I've been so afraid to start this new sketchbook because the paper is sooo nice. I finally just jumped in and started, and here's what came out. It's a little odd for the very front page, and I realized I forgot a title page as well. But it was fun.