The food....Dear God....The Food

umm....

yeah........

so, I will never again be able to eat at an "Italian" restaurant in the States again. Not unless the owner and or chef can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they are from here and cook traditionally.

You would not believe how good it is. It is a little expensive due to the Euro/Dollar exchange rate, but even then not that bad.

Appetizer - Procuitto with Buffalo Motzarella - 3.50 Euro
Main - Pizza with Artichoke hearts, Olives, Procuitto, and mushrooms - 7.00 Euro

So around $17 for the meal...after conversion and service charge. Not too bad. Especially when you consider that for this quality of a meal back home it would have been that much for the pizza alone.

1st Meal in Italy

Coccianere al Milanese

I apologise in advance to all those who will have to see me when I get back to the States. If this meal is any indication of the next three weeks, I will be somewhere near the 350 mark.

Naples Post 1

So I finally made it here. Not too bad.

I actually like the chaos that is the street outside my hotel. These freakers are crazy!!!! Lanes are a mere suggestion, not a given. And the crosswalks give new meaning to the quick and the dead.

Other than a little confusion over which hotel I will be in for the duration, and the fact that the one I am in now does not have Internet access, I am ok.

I will post as I can with pictures and what not. I hope to be able to do some of the "touristy" stuff like going to Vesuvius and Rome. Any hoo....

Out for now. Be back when I can get back

Wheels up

I have finally gotten my passport. (More on that later.)

The plan now is to go back home for a day to square a few items away, then it is go time. I will be flying out on Sunday.

On a side note, if there is anyone from SC who wishes to see me and is actually reading this thing, I will be home briefly this weekend.

Real Virus Alert

Conficker C

This is not a drill.

This thing is real and it is scary. If you haven't updated your Anti-Virus or System Protection software packages lately, now is the time.

This thing will prevent you from running Windows Updates, booting into Safe Mode, disables almost every single security package out there.

Read the technical aspects here.

Report from the star-studded Northeast Blogshoot/meet via Ambulance Driver. Go there. Laugh. Feel the envy I feel that you were not cool enough to be there.

I accepted Jay's dare to shoot a cylinder of full-house .357 rounds out
of his airweight Snubbie From Hell. After shooting it, I can only say that
your tactics while using such a weapon should run something along the lines
of, "Back off, asshole, or I'll make you shoot this sumbitch."

Oops.

What with the new job, and living from a hotel for the past month, and all of the passport issues, and the mild insanity that is Government Contracting, I have really neglected this thing haven't I?

My bad.

Posting will resume.