Shopping spree

Here are the hundreds of dollars I spent on clothes and shoes, taken with my new  two hundred dollar smart phone. 

Best Monday ever

ahhh...hostel life.

hostel life =
german girls
overly talkative guys in the dorm
smelly bathrooms
weird guys from different countries speaking broken english trying to make plans to get drunk together
asian people in large groups
people cooking saimin in the kitchen in their pajamas

mag mile light festival

somehow i always end up where i need to be:

a million people crawling their way down michigan avenue for the parade you can't even see if your not in the front row and its so cold my fingertips were turning blue and i find the spot: 

huzzah

Madeira

The sympathy Madeira from jim morrisey

Venezulan bowl grill

Lunch  today was at this place near the flotation tank center.  Meh.

De quay

Dinner tonight is a table for one (as usual) next to four drunk old gentlemen slurring their words, and a "couple" on a date  composed of a guy, and an attractive woman who is engaged, but seemingly not to him. 

Eavesdroping on this chick, I've concluded I don't like her.  If i was cynical, I would say this guy is a friend-zoned friend who is in stoically in love with her, or he is stoically putting up with her stupid face after getting stuck with a platonic dinner date with her.  

Update: Having eavesdropped some more, i think they actually may be engaged to each other.  If this is the case, I believe, in my opinion, either this guy is a quiet stoic guy who doesn't wear the pants in the relationship, or he is making a huge mistake (and he knows it). 

Apparently this pretty good restaurant is owned by Jim Morrisey.  The manager looks just like him.  He treated me to a glass of Madeira at the end of the dinner for some random reason, maybe he took pity on the weird lonely single chinese guy.  Free sympathy Madeira isn't something I have the pride to turn down.

good food.  would recommend. 

Flotation tank

The flotation tank spa was super new agey but in a  pleasant and reassuring way.  The flotation tank experience?  Kind of meh. It was very relaxing, but no hallucinations and no instant enlightenment.  I definitely feel relaxed and loose like after a good massage. 

It was an experience, worth the fifty bucks, and I'd go back to try it again, for the relaxation if nothing else. 

29 feels like 18*

Holy it is cold.  I'm over this city. You suck, Chicago.  

it was so cold. 

stupid windchill. 

*that's what she said

Mag mile v. Waikiki

Magnificent mile is much like Waikiki.  Except colder, snowier and wetter.

and with a Uniqlo store, something hawaii is badly in need of. 

Uniqlo

I'm coming!

Chicago 2015

I'm tired. 

Chicago 2015

Business traveling is the worst form of traveling. I wouldn't even call it traveling,  that is an insult to the concept. 

But I knew this trip wouldn't be too bad when I saw this sign getting off the subway.  one of my few favorite places to shop: 

Just one block from the hotel. 

Grand opening

i give this place six months.  a year tops. 

Sad pad

The most morose and saddest of sad faces is notepad.

Fear and loathing in Waikiki

We were somewhere on the edge of honolulu when the drugs began to take hold. 

Poor dead kitty

Bye lura

Glassy two to four.  Warm Hawaii evening.

Mmm... sweet creamy delicious schaudendraud

Yes! Die, bubbies!

Rat graffiti

i hate myself

beggar alms

i took this picture at the 2012 kalachakra in Bodhgaya, India.  this monk was passing out small denomination rupee coins to these beggars who weren't really allowed inside the walls of the temple complex.   i gave nothing to them, though i was far richer than most people there.

some men just want to watch cute girls drown.

diamond head on fire.  rain.  death star moon.

Apparently, I am not a white knight in shining armor.  I don't care how cute you are, I'm more inclined to watch you get hurt and/or drown then bother to help you. 

Stormy but fun Chinas

global warming labor day weekend

labor day weekend: hurricane to the east, global warming humidity, global warming calm, haze, 3-5 surf, five guys out, glass, dead sailor, guy screaming for Eric,