Currently sitting in a coffee shop in Seattle, watching Arsenal play in the Champions League on my phone while working on my laptop, cold brew in hand. Just realized I really need a cookie since this game is 0-0!
OK, cookie acquired.
Spent part of my birthday having beers with a local friend, and between that and today, I’m realizing kinda how magical my global life is. I remember laughing at some point about being in an English bar in Tokyo listening to the playlist play a band from actual Colorado Springs, how funny it was, the circuitous nature of my experience. Has not gotten any less amazing.
HOLY COW I am halfway through this cookie and Arsenal just scored! I do not know how this cookie thing works but I am happy to keep eating cookies 😀
Anyways.
Over the course of the week I have told stories about Japan, Mexico, Croatia pre-EU, NOT going to Bosnia, going to Bosnia, France, Greece, Italy, and so many about Albania that I am even more excited to be going back in a few weeks. I think I counted 28 countries — we’ll add at least one more this summer (Kosovo), maybe two (North Macedonia). I know I’m lucky to get to explore like this and trust me, the impact of experiencing other places and other cultures is not lost on me — I am deeply clear how my opinions and outlooks have changed even since moving to Germany back in 2004. The world is amazing.
HOLY CATS AND MISS KITTY they just scored another one. I just finished the cookie. I need a box of these for the rest of the season.
I do need to get myself back into video editing mode. Paris was three months ago, just about, and the video is mostly done but I’m still finishing up the last day, and I just can’t get myself to do it. This is going to sound petty but I think it’s a comfort issue —
OH FOUNDING FATHERS that’s a third. If I had gotten a cookie at the game start it would be like 7-0 now.
Right. Comfort issue. Not having a home office sucks. It was not a luxury I thought I needed when I had it — and I definitely did work from my laptop on the couch, especially on game days (soccer is better on a big screen). But hotel rooms and single bedrooms, where you really only have a bed to sit on and work, is not conducive to any kind of work, much less the kind you do for fun. On top of that, it makes a good bit of noise, and H doesn’t work well with noise, so if we’re working near each other, I really don’t want to bother her on top of it. The plan is to pick up a pair of earbuds before we head out, so I can sit on one end of our Tirana couch and work / edit video, and she can have her meetings and whatnot, and we can work nicely together.
But I should be able to get the Paris video out before we leave, and then start the Athens videos. And then who knows what we’ll see in Albania!
(Probably more goat heads.)
Gonna close this post out at 3-0. Ten minutes left, and then there’s a second leg next week. I wonder how long one of these cookies would last.