In this town they write letters
To the ones they don't know

As stated by R, those were a good few days. I don't know if I have ever seen two people happier than E and his lady. Goddamn, they were happy. And now they are exploring Italian territories, hopefully still happy, safe, and not getting mugged by the gypsies that Matt B. told me about (Matt, who is also in the magical realm of Europe, quite possibly in a hash bar as we speak). Due to this weekend and the last few weeks of seeing people, feeling better, so everyone had better return safely or I'll kick Europe's ass.
And I got my typewriter today. I have to relearn how to type since the thing has floating keys that are spread out more. It also has no "1" key, it isn't missing, all the keys are there, it just doesn't come with one. And the apostrophe is the alternate to the 8, which is confusing. But it comes with a fancy carrying case. Luckily it is QWERTY based, I know that a few were made other ways; an alpha based one might make me shoot myself in the head. Though, it was only five bucks, so I guess I could live with it. Looking forward to sitting on my patio, smoking the cigar Matt B. bought me, typing something out about pirates.
I need to get ink first.
I'm looking at it right now, I feel like Burroughs. I feel like this thing, this grotesque metal machine is going to sprout legs and eat me.
posted by beta at 4/29/2003 11:56:00 AM