This, That and the Other...

Some stuff this AM ...

• Digital TV is a couch potato's dream - Watching a lot lately.... Like the Deja Vu channel - especially the old Dick Van Dyke show and Hogans Heroes - I never seem get to tired of them, even back in the 60s/70s when I first saw these... MSNBC - IMUS in the Morning, the temperamental and irreverent Don Imus still has it... Military Network - Getting my fill of WWII documentaries... EuroNews - Keeping tabs on an area I called home for a year...
• Radio in the Waterloo area sucks - and it's too far away from T.O. to pick up their signals. Oh well, in life you learn take the good with the bad.
• Craving to do something creative... Am thinking of getting back on stage doing stand up... Wanna comment about stuff that others are not - religion... war... state of the world.... death... airline food... ;-) Wanna demonstrate just how absurd we are and the world is...
• Thinking about this blog... Thinking of shutting it down... Really not sure what direction I want to take it... Not sure if I really have much to contribute... Originally, I set it up as a way of communicating my recent travels/discoveries to friends, family, etc.. Wondering if I still want to do this, wondering about redirecting my energy into other, more traditional forms of writing... besides, how much Bush bashing can a blog do? Stay tuned.
• Saw the film - 'The Good German' the other night. Was really looking forward in seeing it. My verdict: Good German = Bad movie. I mean real bad!!! Too confusing, unappealing characters and a choppy, poorly crafted story. Something got lost during the translation from the book to the film. It is a truely bad movie.
• Whenever I get sentimental about my year in Estonia, I head to a webcam of a live picture of the downtown bus stop where I waited for bus number 25 every night to take me back to my flat after class... Sometimes even sober. See it here (click on "Big pic" for a better view). Whenever you see the green double-bus (with the accordion middle section) and a white stripe - it's the old 25 bus. Always packed. BTW, the old town is located directly behind the bus stop were the church steeple is.
• Well, despite radio sucking, I'm firmly settled into the Waterloo-Kitchener area now and am in sync with work... My bank accounts are getting healthy once again, as are my teeth and eyes (i.e. now that I have benefits again). There is a 6 month wait for a family doctor so I'm on hold for that. So I think I have finally arrived here in body, mind and spirit. It took about 5 months here locally, and 9 months since I got off that plane from Europe.
• Update in T.O. sports: Leafs are doing fine, Raptors are getting damn exciting, Jays will probably have a competitive team again this year. Status quo all around, I suppose.