A Stranger in a Strange Land

Sunset in Atlanta:

Outdoors at the driving range.

First time I’ve had lunch while hitting golf balls.

And it was good. Green and blue go well together.

I’ll just let the pictures do the talking … and yes, this is the third time I’m putting my char siew on display.

I’m going to start giving them names … meet Huey, Dewey and Louie.

A picture 10 minutes after I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed.

I had just woken up from the sedative … felt like I was drunk. I vaguely remember being smiled at by everyone in the pharmacy, and I tried to smile back, but couldn’t.

People have been bugging me about this, so here are some pictures of the ‘new’ apartment.

The place is not complete by any means, but it’s coming along. Needs major tidying up.

Living room first … my favourite part of the place so far. Still needs work.

My rather austere dining room. Minimalistic, almost. This needs major work. Any help?

Hey, the 70’s called, and they want their kitchen back.

It’s a combination microwave and regular oven, if you can believe that. Every time I turn it on I’m afraid I’ll broil my liver. But a man has to eat his leftovers, regardless of whether he cooks his own internal organs. So if I don’t answer my phone one day …

Check out the view from my sink. People have gardens, I have my TV. Excuse the mess, I was lazy to do dishes tonight.

Messy bedroom begins here. No ‘magic’ happening here a la MTV cribs …

… and this is why.

Err … lucky smell can’t go over the internet, I just used the facilities before taking this picture.

Just a few more pictures from the fishing trip … boat left the docks at 5.20 am, which led to these pictures …

… which don’t really capture the beauty of the moment, but I’ll ignore that for now.

I’m gonna tell a two thousand word story.

Just had a couple of pics from the hiatus to put up …

This was from my trip to Chicago a couple months ago.

This was taken just when ‘Ol Betsy ticked over 120K miles … don’t know why guys feel the need to record moments like this down. Please ignore the fact that I was taking the picture while driving at 80 mph.

Took a drive out to Dauphin Island today, wanted to catch the ferry across to make the loop round Mobile Bay, but just missed the 12.30 ferry and the next one wouldn’t leave till 2 pm so I just turned around and headed back. Mobile has these loong bridges that just go on forever.
Tried to shoot a pic of it … you can see the bridge if you squint hard enough …

Water on the left and right as you drive across to the island.

Was nice scenery on the way off the bridge … think I’m starting to like this place, except for the damn heat. At least I’ll be used to it by the time I head home in a few weeks.

I now know the difference between skeet and trap shooting.

Thanks to YT and Ben who kindly hosted a bunch of sharpshooter wannabes, for being super-patient and always obliging. The weather decided to cooperate for once, well kinda … it was sunny but bloody cold.

That’s what the range looked like before we started peppering everything in sight. I keed, I keed.

Drew with his trusty shotgun and new grungy look. Well, not really that trusty. He ditched it for the one the girls used half an hour later. And he was just too lazy to shower.

What we shot. Or rather tried to shoot and failed most of the time.

It’s harder than it seems, trust me. I even got a look at the machine that spit these out at 70+ mph.

Was a whole bunch of fun, except I now have a bruised right shoulder and tender right cheek (the one on my face). Dinner was awesome too. No pictures because people tend to get hungry after standing in the cold shooting fake birds for 4 hours.