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Edinburgh: Multiplicity

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

As beautiful as yesterday was, today was its antithesis, but I’d read as much about today’s weather.

I had a very late start.  I think I stirred this morning around the appropriate time to wake-up, but I thought better of it.  I didn’t actually wake up until about 10:30am local time.  And by the time my lazy bones really left, it was noon.  Suffice to say that lunch was breakfast today.  [read on]

Edinburgh or Bust or Both

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

First, if you spot some strange characters, it’s going to take me a bit to get used to the UK keys again, so bear with and all that jazz.

With each trip, I seem to be more haphazardly packing at the last minute. This one was made worse by a Christmas gift gone wrong. One of my gifts was a new lens for my camera. Well, of course, turns up defective. My luck ya know. So, day after Christmas, I called and explained the problem with the lens and that I wanted a replacement by Thursday as possible as I was heading to the airport Friday morning. Oh, no problem, I was told. No problem if they had mailed it that day. Or if they had mailed it the next day and sent it anything other than GROUND… right… ground, the day before… I can at least say I’ve had remarkably good luck with them over all, why I’m not dragging names into it. But Thursday found me calling around various camera places in Atlanta until I found… ding.. ding… same lens, same price. Only fun part was is the company in question is really mail order but you can pick up in the evening, which is what I did. [read on]