Hittin' the road

Tomorrow is the first day of my week of paid vacation. I'll be taking the High Speed Rail (woooooooooo!) south to Tainan with Kaitlin, Dean (Kaitlin's brother), and Ali. We'll chill there for a day, checking out temples and history, before continuing south to Gaoxiong via Express Train (not quite HSR, but still pretty zippy). In Gaoxiong we'll look for the magnificent water park that's supposed to be somewhere around there. We'll also catch a sunset from beautiful Cijin Island. The next day we'll bus to Donggang, from which we'll ferry to Liuqiu Island. Spend a night there, ferry back to Donggang, bus to Kenting. Spend a night (or two) in Sail Rock, bus back to Fangliao, train to Taidong, ferry to Lanyu (Orchid Island). A night or two there, and then it's back to Taipei.

Whirlwinds are us! Pictures and reports to come post facto. Godspeed and tallyho!

Dullness

Well, yeah, it's mid-April (happy belated, Chris!), and things continue on about the same as ever. Swimming when I can (3-5 times a week), hanging out with friends, building robots, playing video games. Lots of these things, and not much of anything else. Very little exploration, very little "excitement", per se.

It's cool, though. I captured a giant fucking spider last night in our "catch and release and not die in the process" program. It was epic. Katherine took video. It all went down with to strains of the truly excellent new Flogging Molly album, Float. We'll see if it shows up on flickr or YouTube sometime.

This is my last week of work before spring break. The plan for spring break is to take the high speed train south, hit up a couple of islands, a couple of beaches, a city or two. Spend a week kicking around with Liz and Kaitlin and Kaitlin's brother Dean and maybe Ali too. Write some run ons. Take some pictures. The usual awesome fare.

Two final notes: I got new glasses, and they're funky; the weather lately has been lovely: thunderstorms, blustery days, gnarly cloudscapes. Good times.