Marcel's Blog

Hello fellow adventurers! Yes we are still alive. Our transition into the NW lifestyle is going smooth so far. I’m heading back to Denver to get the rest of our belongings out of storage next week. What a relief that will be. We have not actually seen our “stuff” since last summer when we left for Europe. It’s amazing how inconvenient it is to not have a full set of dishes and pans, microwave oven, ironing board, furniture, and all those other everyday items that we have gotten used to having in our home. The time has come to finally get our stuff out here and get back to some normalcy. Unfortunately I won’t really have time to visit much on this trip to Denver since I’ll only be there for a day or so. Jet City Pizza is so short handed (like everywhere out here) that I could only get a few days off. They’ve been very accommodating to me so far even giving me weekends off so I can’t really complain. Once I get back I think it will be time for me to take advantage of the hot job market going on out here and find some serious work. Charlotte has already done so by landing a job at Microsoft. Yep ya heard right, she has joined the force, or the dark side depending on your perspective of MS. She’ll be working in one of the coolest divisions of MS too, X-BOX! I’m already volunteering to be a game tester.

Speaking of games I’d like to finish my thoughts on the superbowl from the last blog. I have to say I was really disappointed in the way the Refs lied, cheated, and stole to sway the outcome of the game. Lied about holdings calls that were nonexistent such as the one against Seattle that nullified a first and goal on the 1 yard line, and instead knocking them out of field goal range. Cheated by giving Ben Rothliswhatever a touchdown that clearly wasn’t a touchdown when he ran the play, and indisputably clear with instant replay that the ref and the whole country saw. Stole a touchdown from Jackson that should have given the Hawks the first touchdown of the game, and the momentum to steamroll from there. For most of the game I was confused as to whether I was watching the superbowl or a typically predetermined and biased WWF match. I still love watching football but I think in the future I will spend a lot less time watching it and instead put my time to better use doing other more productive things.

As for the website updates are very slow to come these days. It’s just not easy working on this laptop, especially when we don’t have a desk or even a chair to sit in. Also I’m blogged and pictured out. I still have some things I want to upload to our EuroTrip section, a couple more galleries in Italy, and tons of great pictures from Greece I probably won’t get to sort out for quite some time. I probably will throw in a gallery update here and there, and maybe some new static pages listed on the home page when I have time. All the new things we are doing out here are exciting to us but not really things I want to blog about. I might drop a blog note now and then but my longwinded blogs will be a thing of the past, at least for a while. I will also be disabling all the commenting on the older blogs since I've been getting so much spam comments. Ridiculous isn’t it? Do these idiots that spam all day think someone is really going to click on a link out of my blog to buy some prescription drugs? Totally lame! Anyway I’ll leave commenting on for the last few entries as long as the spam doesn’t get too much more out of control.

To leave on a brighter note I have made an interesting discovery. The UFO house that my dad and I saw at the Outer Banks of North Carolina is actually a futuro house. The picture of it is on the X-Files page of this website. There are less than 100 in the world. They were made in the late 60’s by a Finnish architect. Apparently there is some kind of fascination with these houses by lots of people around the world. I thought it was just an extra out of an old UFO film but apparently there is a lot more to the story. There are many others in the States in places like Tampa, Pensacola, Texas, and even Bailey Colorado! Charlotte and I happened upon one during our road trip in Greece. It was somewhere between Olympia and Patras on the west coast highway in the Pelopponese. When I saw a show on the history channel about it I googled it and found all kinds of interesting stuff. Here we are with the Futuro.

Beam us up Scotty!

The Greek Futuro house from the Backside.

Happy Trails!