Archive for the ‘Israel’ Category

Drinking gin causes Dalí clocks?

After grabbing food, I spot some gin on the shelf of a corner market. Having not yet found any in Tel Aviv, I wandered in to grab a bottle. When he rings me up, he asks if I want some plastic cups, apparently presuming I was going to drink it on the street. No brown [...]

If I stay, there will be double.

You know, it’s 4am, and I think I’m probably going to stay in tonight. “Code Freeze” for our project is Monday evening (Pacific time) and I have a lot of work to do, plus I dropped a lot of cash last night (even with the free drinks). And, you know, I’ll be here 28 days, [...]

The first night goes all night.

Twelve hours from Atlanta to Tel Aviv! The plane was about one-fifth full, so I grabbed a bank of three seats to myself and gathered up six pillows which, when combined, had the comfort-creation capacity of one real pillow. I lied down for the bulk of the flight, sleeping about half of it and reading [...]