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Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
Monday, December 10, 2007
I sleep more or less all day. I am pretty lazy at times. I read Salvador Dali"s autobiography once. There was a guy who lived in the town where he grew up in Cadaques Spain. Dali said he was the laziest person in the world and the dude究 favorite quote was "There are some years, when you just don系 feel like doing anything at all". Excellent.
I actually realize something today though. I think I am actually healthier here when I am sick.
Dec 10,
Catch a bus to Rio. The weather looks much much nicer this time around and I皂 pretty syked up for Rio
Ipanema beach - two brothers mountain in backdrop
. I meet a Jap on the city bus to Ipanema and he told me how he had 5,500 USD stolen out of his backpack somewhere in Indonesia. I can系 even imagine having that much money gaffled from me. I would go balistic. He究 a stupidhead for carrying that much with him at one time though, so it究 sort of his own fault (btw this keyboard is messed up, that究 why the apostrophes don系 look right). He took that much out because I guess he was charged 10 USD each time he took out money so he just took out like 6,000 USD at once (I can系 use the dollar sign on this keyboard either). BTW, he had an excellent camera with him as he showed me some pictures. I bet this guy takes more pictures than I take wrong turns or Hogger takes abuse. Check into the hostel in Ipanema, it has air conditioning and it actually works well. Now I皂 even more stoked. I head to the beach and I get my first real glimpse of Ipanema. Ipanema究 beach is fantastic. One of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen due to the large number of chicks and the Two Brother究 Mountain set as a backdrop. Most of the peeps on the beach are highschool kids since it is their summer break right now. And no, I didn系 hit on any of them. I meet these two girls as I am leaving and I ask them where the nearest supermarket is as I need water and juice and crap. They actually walk me to the supermarket themselves even though it is out of the way. The one girl究 name was Kenia and I forget the other one究. They tell me to meet them at Shenannigans later, which is this Irish Pub. Cool, I was actually planning on going there anyways since that is the best chance of watching the Monday night football game which has huge fantasy implications for me. I walk around Ipanema for a bit to get reaquainted with my surroundings and as I皂 strolling along I see a lady totallly bite it. She was just walking and them booyah, gravity takes over and she is flat on her face. Hah, this shit is hilarious no matter what country you are in. This is the kind of slapstick hilarity that transcends all boundaries. I don系 really point and laugh though, I more just kind of chuckle. I am a much kinder soul here in Brazil as opposed to the US.
I arrive at the pub around midnight but it must be too late because I don't see the girls. It's is Monday, they probably have to work tomorrow. I watch Brees go off in the first half as the Saints decide to pass seriously 90% of the time. I lose both my playoff games because of this shit. In my one league I went 11-1 and I scored like 104 points and every other playoff team scored like 70 that week, well except for one other, the team I played of course who scored like 112 or something. Boshit. I'm a bit salty because I have the worst playoff record in fantasy football. Regular season - pimp, playoffs - gay. I go home around 1:30.
Ok these last few blogs weren系 all that cool. The next one gets good though. Oh, and if you thought my 20 hour bus ride to Salvador was funny, I end up topping it (I think) with my 14 hour bus ride to Foz do Iguacu. Stay tuned.
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