belated france stuff and drunken hilarity

So yeah, its been a while since I've posted. Mostly, I really dont feel like relating all of my France related experiences, as might be expected of me after returning from France. Now its been a while since I came back, so I can get away with only a brief description.

Basically France kicked all sorts of ass except for the fact that I started to miss certain people a lot while I was gone. oh yeah, and that whole lack of knowing the language. That was a little annoying. But it is my philosophy that while in another country, I have no right to expect the people to know my language, so I was willing to deal with it and make due with what little French I know. We ventured into Spain two times while we were there, onec to go to a toppless beach (cha-ching) and the second time to get a flat time (well that wasn't the reason for going there, however it was funny, cuz we didnt even mean to cross teh border into Spain) . Let me tell you, running around France trying to find a specific replacement tire is not fun. I sounded like a broken record: "Avez vous cette pneu? la jante est bonne, mais le pneu est mal" dude, I know French car repare lingo (in retarded keanu reeves voice from the matrix). anyway, I saw lots of cool stuff, including a lot of old castles inhabited by the Cathars who were wiped out by the Catholics (they were what is referred to as the Albigensi heresy). man those medival Catholics were brutal.... In southern France/Northern Spain they speak some language that isnt quite French and isnt quite Spanish, called Occitan, so that kinda made things really confusing. Anyway, nothing else comes to mind right now as overly interesting to other people so thats enough about France. oh except for the fact that Bill O'reilly can fuck off for being such a ignorant ass wipe with his whole "boycott france" crap. France kicks ass, even if they dont support our stupid wars. Not to mention they saved our asses in the Revolutionary war. Dont even get me started on his new "boycott canada" campaign.... Why is it that he chooses to boycott all the countries I've been to? Anyway, for more France related hijinks, see my pictures at http://68.50.195.219/FrancePictures/


anyway, now I am at my new job at raytheon... working for the man (if you call NASA the man) and will probabaly get fired for spending my day typing this blog. So I should go. This post really was meant to be about something more than what I did a month ago, but I forgot what, so screw it. anyway here is a link to more fun pictures to keep you happy. some of them are family pictures, so you can ignore them, or laugh at me because of them. the others are generally drunken hilarity. It should be relatively easy to tell which are which:
http://68.50.195.219/Pictures/view.php?directory=July%202004

cheers...