At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Immediately after snowfall, it’s best to wipe all the snow off your car so that it doesn’t turn into a three inch thick layer of ice that will take you two hours to remove with your trusty OXO Good Grips Twister Snow Brush. I gave up after a few minutes, actually. A few inches in [...]

When the new year rolls around, I don’t make resolutions. Rather, I design an elaborate spreadsheet involving vacation days, frequent flier miles, and Marriott Rewards points. It’s got multiple tabs and everything. One of the few disappointing things about 2008 was that I didn’t have a chance to travel abroad. I had about a month’s [...]

Ah, 2008. What the hell did I do in 2008? Well, I moved out of D.C. and into the Commonwealth of Virginia, traveled to Denver, Texas (San Antonio and Houston a few times), New York City (three freakin’ trips), and the Outer Banks in North Carolina. I also toured an oil refinery, campaigned in both [...]

That’s DC’s official headcount for Obama’s Inauguration. The full satellite photo is here. I’ll probably upload some photos this weekend.

Obama showing some Aloha spirit during the Inaugural Parade.

More on the Inauguration later…

I really wish Gazprom would post videos of their press conferences, because it would be rather hilarious to see Sergey Kupriyanov and Alexey Miller shouting their statements to reporters: As of January 7, when Gazprom was forced to cease gas supplies, the transit pipelines in Ukraine were filled with Russian gas. Therefore, the pipeline pressure [...]

Especially when they use exclamation marks! Providing gas for technological needs is the sole responsibility of transiting party! Indeed!

318,478, to be exact. That’s how many visitors lindsayfincher.com received in 2008. That’s 26,539 visitors per month and 870 per day. Not bad for a blog about nothing. Yes, it’s Excel. Shutup. Unfortunately, I’ve never really tracked data from past years so I have no idea whether the number of visitors has risen or declined. [...]

Last week’s concert was good, but couldn’t really compare to Gogol’s show at Coachella in 2007. Oddly enough, Eugene Hütz did not do any drum surfing at this show. I thought that was pretty standard at Gogol concerts. Also, the crowd wasn’t as into it as the one at Coachella. They were rather sedate, actually. [...]