What a random pleasure (and luck!) to find out there was a lovely comics fest here the week I happened to be here. :)

Please don't misinterpret this, I really quite love this odd little apartment. Even the rain bit. :)

A lovely afternoon with a very kind person who I may never see again. The life of a traveler, for better or worse.

Seeing what there was to see.

This is me trying to rest, "what are all the things I can DO while I do this resting thing?"

I want to move to Pennsylvania just so I can vote against Fetterman.

That pizza would've tasted so good, I just know it.

Sometimes travel days are just kinda dull. And taking the bus in Uruguay can be especially so because the country is so flat so there's not much to see. Not dissing Uruguay, it is a wonderful place. But it's still flat.

Wrapping up Carmelo.

A quiet week. There was a play on Saturday too, but since I was sick I missed it (totally better now).

Last week was such a better birthday than anticipated. Ah, the kindness and joy of strangers.

A little boat trip the next town over. (1 of 2)

I just watched the Bad Bunny Halftime show (again), and it made me all happy (again).

Ooof. Just read an article in how they're making headway into reading thought by "array of electrodes surgically inserted into a lobe," and how great it is for people who are paralyzed etc. But all that comes to mind for me is the military uses, and it terrifies me. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Cleaning and PLAYing.

I updated my wacom driver, and they removed the calibration tool (and "pen tip cursor alignment" didn't help). After an hour on message boards trying tons of things, I gave up and installed an old driver. How can the decision to remove it be considered sane by anyone? (or am I missing something?)

Just some reflection as I fall into this new town. (1 of 2)

Finally started drawin' up me some Carmelo. :)

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

I really don't like this sick business. And I try to be so super careful. It's not like I didn't keep to the shade or drink a bunch of water that day. Ah well. Le sigh.

ten days of walking

An article today about how there's no need for E-readers anymore. Their point was you can set your phone/tablet to b&w PLUS have a "richer software experience." But my eyes get so tired from backlit screens all day (e-ink not same as b&w), and I WANT a device ONLY to reading 'cuz I'm distractible.

Posting a little less regularly because I got caught up (and not a lot happening recently). :)

enjoying my morning coffee in this random Airbnb in this small rural town of Carmelo, Uruguay. And their kitten needed some cuddle time this morning, so I just wrote a rough draft of the next page of spacetrawler. Not a bad way to start the day.

The thing about the avocado toast was that I wanted a burrito, but their Mexican chef was visiting Mexico until April, but they they said they could make me up something vegetarian on the grill, and told me what, but I didn't understand what they said and so i just said, "Yes." And it was delicious.

And with that, the young man stuffed the rest of his belongings into his suitcase, and took the next bus to Colonia del Sacramento.

I didn't manage to get to the hourly comics yesterday, but enjoyed all the ones I've read. Oh, and just watched the Bad Bunny halftime show, so good!

In the story of my life, I am often my own inciting incident. I'm not sure that's always healthy.

Changes.

More of me just exploring Montevideo.

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

This is a lonnng post. Just me rambling about my thoughts of what I'm doing down here in South America.

The ups and downs. :)

So much random tango in the town. Love it. :)

Three Sweet Things.

I try hard to get out and about! And sometimes succeed!

Half play, half work. A fair balance. :)

I am not someone who enjoys sleeping in late or taking naps, which works great as long as I get enough sleep. :)

I love the curiosity of new places, but I also love when a place starts to feel "every day" and I have moments that feel like normality (even if for me they're not).

Now, several weeks later, I'm really getting into the whole "feria" culture here. :)

A long NYE. :)

The new digs I've been in for January in Montevideo. :)

Annnnd... transitioning from Punta Arenas to Montevideo.

I got to see penguins! With some dolphins thrown in for free!

I'm always amazed how kind some people are. I felt/feel so grateful for all this goodness.

With all the Minnesota happenings (enormously important), one of the stories outside that I thought needed some amplifying is that now foreign scientists working with US scientists will be investigated for subversive behavior. More dismantling of science in the US. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The curse of living too much in one's head, I think.

Mission accomplished! And a very tired Christopher.

The final days of hiking, in full hobo mode.