When I get stressed travelling, I have this mantra that I repeat to myself: Passport, wallet, keys, cellphone. Everything else you can buy. It doesn't mean that losing/forgetting something else might not be expensive, or a giant pain to fix. The point is, that only the loss of some things is a genuine crisis. I can't pretend ...
My friend and teammate says to me, "do you make a habit of spending your birthdays on planes... after breakups? It's only the second time. It's really how the dates worked out. With the timezone change, it means my birthday is going to last for 40 hours... I can celebrate on two continents! In two hemispheres. It is ...
I bought my laptop home with me for the long weekend. I was writing code at 9pm on Wednesday night. Last week, I worked Sunday night. Sounds like I have a work-life integration problem, right? I used to have these strict rules - laptop stays at the office. No work at the weekends. I drew lines around ...
Accidentally bought matching sneakers and wallet this afternoon. I went out for sunscreen, and came back with this, two candles, and extra Biotherm products... this is after I ordered new glasses. One pair are a little crazy, but it was buy one get one free so I figured I would go wild, and when I ...
I love Big Bang Theory (Amazon), but, and bear with me for a depressing though of the day, I think Sheldon is the most feminist of all the guys. Of course, that is in large part because he despises everyone as being beneath him, but the people who has has a little-more-than-grudging respect for include: Amy Farrah Fowler, ...
About 3 weeks ago, I sat in San Francisco airport and waited, as the delay on my flight crept up and up. Some time around 5pm, when I'd been there since 10am, I felt like, I could cry right then. Just start sobbing. In public. The lounge had closed, and I was sitting by the ...
There are a zillion things to do in New York City, but my favorite thing to do is walk across it. Every kind of person, demographic. See people out shopping, walking home after a marathon, out with their kids. Overhear people speaking Spanish, Italian, Farsi, French, Chinese, Japanese, and, yes, English - American, and English-English, ...
On a Monday nights lately, I'm buzzed from skiing. I actually committed to something - an 8-week long, twice a week, race training program. This is massive for me, as having taken a trip a month for very nearly two years, it seemed like I had lost the ability to commit to anything. And that was ...
I'm pretty confident that 2012 is going to be better than 2011. One of the things that makes me sure of this is that I now have Elite status on Air Canada. Airports, a huge source of misery, are set to be less miserable with access to the lounge (or maybe I'll just get liquored ...
![Dotty Attie, Backflip [detail], 2009](http://www.catehuston.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/150x150xand-who-knows-150x150.jpg.pagespeed.ic.g8S1Y_iqqX.jpg "Dotty Attie, Backflip [detail], 2009")
Back in high school, my friends and I went through a phase of being into The Sims. I remember one conversation, when my friend said her sim-child had been taken off to military school. I hadn't known that could happen. She, perceptively, said that she bet my sim-children are all straight-A students. They were. And I ...
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