Posted in Scotland on Jan 17th, 2007 No Comments »
flour or sugar in bags larger than 1.5 kg, eggnog, corn syrup or corn starch current seasons of my favourite TV shows (24, Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, House, etc.), hockey games on TV plastic recycling (those #1, 2, 4 and 5 containers just go into the trash here) and a deposit system for cans/bottles trees, mountains [...]
Posted in Scotland on Jan 13th, 2007 No Comments »
Recently a burning electric smell started emanating from Oana’s laptop. After some inspection and research, we determined that it was the AC adapter cord melting in the DC jack. After purchasing a new AC adapter off eBay and finding that unfortunately not to be the solution, I went to a local laptop repair shop and [...]
Posted in Scotland on Jan 13th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the things Ali requested that we include on our itinerary for his visit to Scotland was a soccer game. Pardon me, football … as everyone outside North America calls it. The only tickets I could get at the last minute were some awful seats for the Celtics-Kilmarnock game on Jan 2nd in Glasgow. [...]