interrobang (‽)

For some reason I’ve got this real craving for Toffos.  Unfortunately, being some 10,000 miles from the nearest packet, it’s likely to remain unsatiated.  Despite globalization and the flattening of the world, some things just don’t seem to travel intercontinentally - and sweets (candy, snoep, what you will) seems to be one of them.  Although there’s not much I miss about England, sweets are something I certainly do.  Not enough to move back there, you understand, but enough to give me pangs of nostalgia.  Or of hunger.  It’s difficult to tell, this late in the afternoon.
I spent several years in Belgium, […]

It could only happen here.  (Here being Texas.)  Today is officially ‘Go Texan Day’, an annual event where everyone in Texas is wholeheartedly encouraged to ‘be as Texan as possible’.  The most immediate impact of this is that everyone is wearing cowboy outfits at work.  (Well, perhaps not everyone, but at least half the men on my floor are wearing Stetsons and/or checked shirts.)  Now Friday is ‘casual day’ anyway (something I’ve never seen the point in), but when one of your office buddies comes in wearing chaps, and without a hint of irony - or at least a policeman, […]

What a great week!  I’m back in Houston, TX.  It’s been a while, but as soon as I got off the plane and the humidity hit me, I just felt that I was right back home again.  Sure, it’s not the prettiest city in the world, and it’s never going to make it as a vacation destination, but something about Houston just makes it comfortable.
I’m here ostensibly to finalize the details of my new job.  Much of this involves sitting in all-day meetings with the rest of my new organization trying to working out who we are and what we’re supposed to be doing.   Inbetween all this […]