19 of 30 - Spain Trip Pt 7 - Weekend in Zaragoza!

   CONTINUING the epic adventure in Spain (recall that, after spending a week in Barcelona, I am at this point in Zaragoza)

Day 14 - Saturday, May 23rd - Being as we came home after 7am the night before that morning, we slept until around about 3pm. By then we'd already missed the hours at some museums which were only open the first half of the day on Saturdays (and closed on Sundays! ): and since we were leaving Z-town on Monday that meant we missed them), but we saw the old Roman theatre museum, the Roman baths, a tapestry museum, and the inside of the basilica and another cathedral (La Seo). Also this day it was raining, but the sky was still totally bright and it was still almost uncomfortably hot, so that was interesting.
   We sat under some eaves and had mojitos in the rain while it was totally warm out, it was pretty nice.

   Went out again that evening until 7am again. Woke up without my voice and didn't recover it for several days. :D


Day 15 - Sunday, May 24th - Nearly every museum and such was closed on Sunday. Rude. Wandered around (yes wandering around in Zaragoza is still entertaining after three days!), probably began a little earlier with the policy of stopping at every decent looking bar for a beer. Nothing else noteworthy but took some pictures I rather like.


Day 16 - Monday, May 25th - Got up early (ie 10am) to check out, hiked / bussed ourselves to the transit station to get ourselves on a bus to Barcelona, and we'll pick up there next time. (:


Picture of the Day

09:56pm -- tower and weird sculpture just off the central square

( Photos of Days 14-16 )

My photo teacher said you can't take a hand-held photo at slower than 1/60th of a second without it being too blurry. Well this is taken while standing and holding the camera, the exposure time? 1 second. That's right, I apparently rule at standing perfectly still. :D

19 of 30 - Pranktime

   Okay it's Friday evening, and who are we kidding, no one is going to be on livejournal until AFTER all the scandalous entries of Friday night happenings have occurred. Either that or you're going to be playing nethack all night until you're delirious (lord knows that's what I'D be doing if I wasn't so keen on showing off my beer :D )


   The weekend is always the doldrums of livejournal. No one updates (which is weird because the lazy morning hours of Sat and Sun what else are you going to do? Why aren't the rest of you telling your scandalous entries of Friday/Saturday night happenings??), and if you update, no one will comment. (well there's actually a window around noon on Sat morning). So it's best not to waste an entry on a weekend. But.... then 30 in 30 comes along and hey I don't make the rules...

   And so I'm left with a particularly difficult dilemma. I want to make an entry that's interesting enough to qualify as worth reading (I think I may have accomplished that once...), but I don't want to waste an idea I regard as really good to the hopeless morass that is the blogosphere on weekends. So I find myself trying to dial in to a very very specific window of good enough to post but only barely.

   Two solutions I've though of other than writing purposefully crummy entries:
   (a) guest entries! that was fun no? nice change of pace for the weekend. I have the legendary shid (from 30 in 30 II or some such ancient times) lined up for one at some point. Any other volunteers welcome.
   (b) rehabilitate entries from more than ancient times that were already posted in this LJ. Being as some 300 or so of you are new to this lj this year (: I have plenty of entries that would be new to you if reposted... I mean, don't you want to know which US President had a dog named Sweet Lips? Or read my entry about experimenting with controlling substances? ;D


   Anyway, for now I'm whipping out a simple little story of a prank I pulled yesterday, with photographic evidence:

Behind those beehives is actually a door. The only door to a room in which my coworker Jeremy was at the time bottling honey.

...bastard denied me satisfaction by acting completely nonchalant when he opened the door to find a wall. ):!


Earthquake!!!
   In other news, while I was writing this I experienced an earthquake!!! Typical.