Rome

From Sunday, July 31

 

 

Alive

So far so good.  I'm sitting here in my hotel lobby in Rome waiting for my room.  It's 2 in the afternoon and I'm trying to will myself to stay awake until at least 8PM.  I didn't sleep a wink on the 9 hour flight over here last night.  I gave Cholo the aisle seat and squirmed around in the few cubic feet of space US Air allows you while watching 2 year old "Dangerous Catch"  episodes.  I also saw Green Hornet and I'm not sure what was worse: the movie or my coffin-like posture during those two dreadful hours.

 

 

Buongiorno Roma

The weather here in Rome is better than perfect.  The lunch we just ate less so.  It was so bad Cholo didn't even eat the shrimp in his Papardelle a la fruitti di mare.  I've seen him eat fossilized seafood before so these camarones had to be on a new level of bad for Cholo to forgo. 

 

 

The Lancia
I rented a car from Europcar.  I prepaid and chose the Peugeot 207, knowing what a big fan of French cars Cholo is.  No, I'm not kidding.  Instead I have something called a Lancia.  Diesel.  Beat to shit.  I'll have to go in to more detail as I get to know the car but for starters I'm trying to figure out what the RPM gauge is so far to the right.  Like almost in front of the passenger right.  I hope to drive it directly into the fiery maw of Mt Etna.

I had a hostile relationship with this car.

Blog?

I downloaded some kinda blog app to my Android.  Assuming I can get a local vodaphone SIM card with some data plan I might try to figure it out in my downtime.  UPDATE: I got the blogger thing going on Cholo's laptop this morning.  Gonna try to update this to mirror lnet updates.