Sitting at the gate in Narita Airport on Thursday, a fellow traveler a few.seats.away was coughing up a storm. Thick, wet, low, growly coughs.

I thought that I was far enough away from him to be safe. He was coughing into a handkerchief for the most part. I was wrong.

On Saturday night, I started to cough a little and my chest felt scratchy. Sunday morning I was worse and had a fever. Last night was terrible as I was alternately freezing and burning and awake all night until the fever subsided around 5AM.

Here I am, first day back to work after vacation, sick as a dog and exhausted.

Why isn’t there a rule concerning visibly ill passengers? The gate personnel should have confronted Mr. Coffer and told him that for the sake of the other passenger’s health, he had to skip flying until he was well.

Dammy!

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Back in the day, when America Online was king and the Internet was just still so many soup cans connected with string, I wrote.

I wrote funny (no, really!) articles about current events and topics or just found a funny handle on something and grabbed it and ran.

I wrote sketches and even sold some jokes to a columnist. I went through voiceover classes and was deeply interested in making commercials.

Then something happened. I’m not sure yet just what it was but all of those interests faded out.

These days I come home from the job, have dinner and plop in front of the computer – substantially the same as always – but what I do from there is different.

I hang on Facebook, reposting other people’s posts and looking for things to post. All of my comments are short. Few of them are funny. 

I have become an extension of Facebook.

That’s essentially what Panzo.org has become. It’s no longer an extension of me augmented by Facebook and Twitter. It’s become an extension of those. A very opposite effect.

So then what is the point of this?

I hope I can figure that out.

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The International Day to End Impunity is a call to action to demand justice for those who have been killed for exercising their right to freedom of expression and shed light on the issue of impunity.

Every day around the world journalists, musicians, artists, politicians, and free expression advocates are being silenced, often with no investigation or consequences to their persecutors.

International Day to End Impunity.

…until you drove around in that field and passed out drunk…

Passed out man leads police to stolen boat, trailer, statues… http://wap.kirotv.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=26&nid=2437103825&cid=361&scid=-1&ith=2&title=Local+News&headtitle=Local+News

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Our January trip to Davao has me all foward-thinking and “trippy” again. In 2008 I made the trip alone and survived two weeks living out of one bag.

USB drives and a digital camera with SD memory were all of the electronics that I took with me (and a cell phone, of course). This time, there will be two of us and a whole lot more doodads.

We have the camera, a dedicated digital camcorder, a portable hard drive and a netbook along with a few SD cards and USB drives.

We’ll use the netbook with a USB network adapter from one of the Philippines cellular companies (a bit more secure than Wi-Fi) and the hard drive to transfer video from the camcorder’s SD card.

Since I’m always trying to shed luggage weight, I’m wondering if cloud storage might fit into this trip.

There are a bunch of questions from speed to security to cost that I need answered but it’s for sure going to be a fun couple of days learning about some newish stuff!

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