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The power of the Amazon! I’m impressed. I ordered some movies from them yesterday (Sunday) and I got a notification from them this morning that they had shipped — I got home and they were in my apartment (thanks to the great folks in my building who deliver my packages in my unit!). Apparently Amazon shipped the movies via a courier (they do this???) and I got my shipment same day! Obviously I’m excited, but anyone has to admit that’s great customer service! Now only if I could get my RMA’d HDHomerun back!

I’d like to extend a very Happy New Year to like the dozen people that actually read this blog!

So what new year resolutions have I set for myself? Well, I don’t really believe in setting resolutions. Setting resolutions is ultimately a commitment to change something about ourselves whether for better or worse and from my own past experiences they usually end up as a complete failure. For myself, it’s less of a factor of getting started on the resolution but more so not having the drive to succeed. I’ve found that the initial enthusiasm of setting a resolution may provide the motivation to get started however that enthusiasm alone is never enough before habit takes over – unless of course your a well trained Jedi Master (maybe I should look into Jedi training this year?). Don’t get me wrong as there are a few things that I’m aiming to accomplish this year, I just don’t feel that I have to commit to those in order to succeed. I have commitments at work, I don’t need these same failures in my personal life.

Anyways, I will say that I’m definitely looking to accomplish is to stop sucking at blogging. I can’t believe it’s been seven months since my last blog entry!

Yesterday I had the oppurtunity to fly through London Heathrow’s new Terminal 5. I didn’t really know what to expect but was definitely expecting the worst based on reports I’ve had heard in the news since it’s opening two months ago — long queues, useless baggage handling, lost luggage, etc. I attempted to reduce my exposure by doing online check-in the day before and utilize one of the terminal’s “fast bag drops”, this way I reduce one of the queues I would have to wait in. I was working in a time range that didn’t allow much room for error, arriving on the very first Heathrow Express train of the day (e.g. I couldn’t get to the airport any earlier unless I hired a car) and T5’s new conformance policies. For those that aren’t aware, “conformance” are a new set of policies put in place to help the airlines remain on schedule — this includes a policy that all passengers have thier boarding passes scanned at the security checkpoint and if there is less than 35 minutes prior to thier flight they won’t be allowed to clear security. This left me about and hour and fifteen minutes from the time the train arrives to needing to be pass security. I show up to the airport and surprisingly I have my bag checked and made it through security in less than 15 minutes… needless to say, I was impressed!

This was also the first time I had flown British Airways. From the time I had arrived at the airport in London until the time we on the ground in Rome, every BA employee was extremely nice and helpful. The pilots even made every effort to keep us aprised of the flight status (we were initially delayed by almost a half an hour but made up the time in the air). I would definitely consider flying them again in the future.

Anyways, that’s all for now… I gotta make it off to the Termini in order to catch the night train to Munich.

I’m back in the British Isles… by that I mean I’m in London. I haven’t been here in nearly three years and frankly things haven’t changed much. Although this time things seem to be a bit more exciting — the first day and half here I’ve seen a sworm of police type activity starting with witnessing a shoplifting/robbery on the first afternoon. It was ammusing that last night a police van started speeding down the street with lights and siren blazing only to get caught up in traffic — the solution — the officers jumped out and started sprinting down the road on foot… they caught-up with the “perp” and threw him in the back of a paddy wagon in a matter of seconds. On the not so entertaining side was the stabbing outside the pub last night — luckily I was not involved.

I saw a theater performance last night called “39 Steps” at the Criterion Theater. I love british humour… it was FUNNY AS HELL! It’s amazing to see an entire production that is so entertaining put on by just four actors (altough they each play multiple parts), it really gets you thinking about the skill involved in being a BRIALLANT actor/actress.

Anyways, about to run out of time at the internet cafe. More to come when I have more time, I need to go find out what there is to do in London when it’s raining cats and dogs — ice bar perhaps?

Woohoo, a blog post!

To the friend (you know who you are) that e-mailed me stating that I don’t blog enough… all I have to say is is the link to your site has been updated.

I must be living an exciting life if this is the only thing that I have to blog about. Perhaps there will be more to come if we get more serious about pub night!