Month: May 2007

I was able to cut and paste my way through the password reset dilemma and now have a new one. So the blog continues.

Croatia is fun, tiring, adventurous, hot, rainy, sunny, filling, and full of AA.

The convention begins this weekend and the hotel is the Hotel Medina which is a Tito-era monolith of what can only be described as having ‘cold-war’ charm. The rooms are clean and neat, the lobby is the size of a basketball court, and there are so many conference halls it boggles the mind. Tennis courts, swimming pools, water slides, etc…remember this is the place Tito took his good friends Sophia Loren and Richard Burton before they went to his island hideaway of Brioni–now a closed national park.

My friend Marko says that the three of them enjoyed the water slide immensely.

The DigPhoPro is moving along and I am focusing (no pun intended) on depth-of-field today. I have yet to begin reading any thing for the paper I am going to write when I return, but I will.

More will be revealed…

Johnnyboy

I have only hours until I leave for Croatia, Greece, and more. I am very excited and somewhat nervous. New experiences and new places, new people and a commitment to the program that I haven’t felt before.

Amazing.

I will miss being with my mother for the time I am gone and even though she will be surrounded by people who know her (my sisters, friends, local folks who care) I hope and pray that nothing bad happens. I feel this way always, actually, even if I leave for only the night. ‘What will I return to?’ is the question I usually ask myself. This is a great lesson in turning my will and life over to the care of my Higher Power. I cannot become too attached to the misleading power of running the show.

My school semester finished well, and my PowerPoint presentation was received with good remarks. I have another ‘A’ in American History and probably one in the science class as well. The European history tutorial has garnered two ‘A-‘ papers and still awaits the final paper on the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. I hope to pick up a third ‘A’. Like Aravis, I need these high marks for the future when my GPA may be strained over more difficult work.

My Firefox browser has downloaded a new Google tool bar and I really don’t like it. I can no longer access my email via the ‘tools’ tab and have to actually open up my mail from the start menu. This is stupid I think, but I will set it to rights when I return. Even Blogger has changed…I changed my font as well. This is a weak attempt at control, but it will do for the time being.

My friend Marko P. will be meeting me at the airport on Friday afternoon and from there we will drive to Split, on the Dalmatian Coast. My next installment will be from there in a couple of days.

Toodle-oo

Johnnyboy