Back to Bangalore

Today Nicole left for India. She's going to Delhi first for about a week and then she's going to Bhubaneswar (pronounced Boob-a-nesh-var) for school until February 28th. It just so happens that I will be going to Bangalore from February 2nd thru March 3rd. I'll be back in the states on late Saturday March 4th.

It started to dawn on me just how much I'll miss her while she's away when I dropped her off at the airport. It'll be 6 years together for us on January 28th and I've grown incredibly accustomed to her presence.

I'm planning on a rendezvous for us after February 28th. I'll most likely fly her down to Bangalore to be with me for just two days before I fly back to Seattle.

I think it's going to be a long month.

WTF. No WRC coverage in the US this year

Speed channel is not showing WRC magazine this year. Those fuckers.

And I have no idea which network(s) is(are) showing it in Europe. I just hope someone over there is nice enough to share it via BitTorrent.

Argh!

At least the Dakar coverage on OLN this year was better than last year's.

Best feature in iTunes 6.0.2

The best feature in iTunes, apart from the mini-store (ha ha), is multiple-speaker support. This means I can have my built-in speakers on my computer and my Airport Express all playing at the same time.

And somehow, they're perfectly synchronized, so I've got one source playing music in multiple rooms in my house. I could add more Airport Expresses around my house to get every room filled with music.

It'd be cool if someone created an all-weather Airtunes speaker set so I could have this outside the house, or in the shower.

WHAT

WHAT

In Victoria, la dee da.

It's been a long day. Nicole's going to India next weekend for at least 5 weeks on study, and then I'm going to India (a different part of India) for a month on the 2nd of February. More work stuff.

But this weekend was our little getaway from Seattle. I made reservations on the Victoria Clipper a while back as our 6 year anniversary is on the 28th. Welp, we got to the clipper for an 8am departure. Boat was delayed by two hours leaving Seattle. More coverage (and pic) from Nicole here.

So we're finally on the boat, and we're about 15 minutes out of the dock and the boat slows down. Then they mention there was a problem with the exhaust manifold and one of the engines had to be shut down while the engineer tries to fix it. Another 15 minutes later, and we're informed that due to this problem, the boat's being turned around and we'll be returning to the dock.

So now, the lady across from us is balling her eyes out and I'm trying to laugh the whole damn thing off. Nicole and I talk about whether we want a refund, whether we go up to Victoria by car, or find another hotel and stay in Seattle. We chose to continue onto Victoria. I used my bluetooth connection and T-Mobile T-zones service with my laptop to make reservations on BC Ferries Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay run. We made it up to Tsawassen on time. The border had a less than 5 minute wait. Perfect....

But there was still more fun - this time it's a guy who has a gun or something. And the cops are yelling at him to obey or something. Hard to say, we were too far away to see what the hell was going on.

But anyway, we're here. The hotel's really nice. I'm just happy as hell to be here and we're going to try to enjoy our little vacation as much as possible.