Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • Enjoy this video which sums up my thoughts on birthdays

    Enjoy this video which sums up my thoughts on birthdays:

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-02 14:44:00 UTC

  • MATTERS

    http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385479425/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkPRETTY MATTERS

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-01 16:26:00 UTC

  • (HUMOR) “YOU’LL NEVER FIND A MORE WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY.”

    (HUMOR) “YOU’LL NEVER FIND A MORE WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-07-01 04:19:00 UTC

  • (SILLY) SOCKS AND CABLES I understand that dryer’s need to eat socks now and the

    (SILLY) SOCKS AND CABLES

    I understand that dryer’s need to eat socks now and then. That’s just part of life. But, I mean, what is happening to old Firewire cables? Is it some sort of rare delicacy? I mean… I can’t find a single one anywhere. Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-30 14:18:00 UTC

  • UNDERWEAR? In Kiev, its not only common but fashionable for women to wear clothe

    UNDERWEAR?

    In Kiev, its not only common but fashionable for women to wear clothes so sheer or nearly transparent that you can read the label on their underwear.

    Not in a creepy Walmart kind of way.its tasteful and elegant.

    You cant find a slip in the stores. 😉 I asked about one for verinika. The saleswoman told me “Our women are not so shy as Americans.” Tone implying that i am naive – stupid even

    Its beautiful really. But I must be too puritanical or something because it makes me uncomfortable. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-30 04:51:00 UTC

  • (BOOM) Scary close and dramatic lightning in Kiev tonight. Veronkia chastised me

    (BOOM)

    Scary close and dramatic lightning in Kiev tonight.

    Veronkia chastised me for getting creeped out by a horror movie the other night. Apparently a man in Ukraine isn’t allowed to get the creeps from a watching a horror movie. Which I think is silly. My father was one of the toughest people you’d ever meet – terrifying as hell really – and he got the creeps from them all the time. 🙂 It always made me laugh ’cause it made him seem almost human. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-28 14:04:00 UTC

  • (Things that go bump in the night.) You’d think that at my age, scary movies cou

    (Things that go bump in the night.)

    You’d think that at my age, scary movies couldn’t give me the creeps. Living alone at my (big) log house in the (very dark) woods (very far from neighbors), I wouldn’t watch them. And in this big apartment in this very old building I shouldn’t either. Suspension of disbelief and all, being what it is. Ack…. 🙂

    I feel ridiculous. 🙂 But it’s somehow satisfying. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-26 18:27:00 UTC

  • Roman Skaskiw 🙂

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE95K0ME20130621Thanks Roman Skaskiw 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-24 14:29:00 UTC

  • “YOU HAVE YOUNG EYES” Thanks. Nice thing to say. I look at other men my age and

    “YOU HAVE YOUNG EYES”

    Thanks. Nice thing to say.

    I look at other men my age and they look and think “old”. I have more in common with those in their twenties and thirties than with my peers. Because I see life as open to possibility as they do. And as worthy of risk taking as they do.

    There is a whole class of us that will never be old. We will just have older and weaker bodies. And my body certainly has racked up enough wear that even my Norman genes cant cope.

    Your view of the world is a choice you make. And you can choose to acquiesce to the wear and tear on your cells, or to preciously make use of them to gain the greatest number of experiences in life.

    And my choice is to keep experimenting with life to the last breath.

    Damn the torpedoes.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-24 05:44:00 UTC

  • FIRST REAL PROBLEM WITH KIEV : HEAT Ottawa isnt any better but its drier and air

    FIRST REAL PROBLEM WITH KIEV : HEAT

    Ottawa isnt any better but its drier and air conditioned everywhere you go.

    I get to severe headaches, confusion and problems staying conscious in the heat. Even if I work hard at hydration and avoiding direct sun.

    If it hits me i just go home and sleep in the air conditioning for six hours. And so far I’ve left three parties at night and had to spend the day in bed after braving the street for two hours.

    Couple days in a row now its been unbearable. :(.

    Sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-23 15:28:00 UTC