TBWAIN - AKA Jeff Svare's Blog

During the past few days I've had the chance to view events back home through different eyes. Here's some of my conclusions: If a person who speaks two languages is bi-lingual, and a person who speaks three or more is multi-lingual, what do you call a person who only speaks one language? An American. Or British, or Canadian. :-) Many people who watch American television shows think it's an accurate representation of life in America. That's really scary. The Democratic National Convention has attracted a lot of attention. Mostly because they think both parties are out to lunch/up in the night/out of touch/totally whacked. Pick one. It's providing a great source of humor over here. Madonna's statement comparing John McCain to Adolph Hitler has also caught a lot of people's attention. Mostly because they think Madonna's probably not sure who Hitler was, much less how he can accurately be compared to John McCain. A someone here observed, "Just

Another day, another city. Well, not exactly. It's Thursday afternoon for me, and I'm in Malm&#248 , Sweden. The last time I was here it was pouring rain. Today it's cloudy, cool, and mostly dry.

According to the clock on the wall it's 1:30 PM in Copenhagen , so it must be 6:30 at home.

It's 12:30 AM at home right now, so I must be in Reykjavik .

I'm in the lobby of the Best Western Dakota Ridge using their electricity to work on my laptop. There's a really nice restaurant next door, Al Baker's . The Chicken Gumbo soup is really good. And the staff is very friendly. I'm gonna have to try the walleye. Seven hours and 45 minutes until my flight leaves. :sigh:

Well, almost. I'm still in the US. I'm experiencing a return to insomnia absent my regular habits, and stressing over what was left undone when I left home. But, everything there will be fine. Won't it? Ja, it will. The good things. The wireless is working great on my Ubuntu 7.10 laptop. Which is more than I can say for the WindowsXP partition. It won't find any signal at all. Now I just need to get some work done.

Anyone can screw up. But to make a totally colossal mistake in a new an innovative way--that requires true genius. I am so smart I scare myself.