Tag: paranoia
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How to be Completely Useless
This might be one of the most frustrating images I’ve ever come across in my many years of reading blogs. I saw it on Sojourning Abroad and it claims to be a color coded map with a list of local emergency numbers. Hmmm, I think to myself, wouldn’t that be a nice, permanent addition…
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Mine’s Bigger
Sorry about the lack of blog posts. I’ve just been been biting my nails down to the quick over our upcoming trip to Peru. And, making and discarding numerous packing lists in my head at 3 am when I’m supposed to be sleeping. But, I did want to check in and say, What the…
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Going Tribal Drums on Some Sharkies
I have the most awesome friends. They are always looking out for me. They really are. For example, my friend Emilia recently made me aware of this fine product, along with her astute observation that “apparently tribal techno music is just perfect for shark repelling…??!”: (I’m trying to insert a video here. First time. Let’s…
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Everybody’s a Comedian When They Get Bit By a Shark
***We interrupt our regular Istanbul vacation recap posts to have yet another panic attack over an upcoming vacation that I’m certain will result in my death, or at the very least, a maiming.*** I knew something was up. While perusing the search terms that had brought people to the Poe Log yesterday, I noticed something…
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I Bet It’s Exactly Like ‘Under the Sea’ – CSI Edition
I’m halfway through my online scuba lessons and I’m becoming very, very worried. We’re taking online scuba certification classes, with plans to do the actual dive portion in Puerto Rico in December. All of this is to prepare us for diving in the Great Barrier Reef next year. I am, as you may have noticed,…