Category Archives: Hasty snapshots

Dangerously Drunk Hitchhiker and A$$hole Gas Station Attendant: A Love Story

I don’t often get the opportunity to pair up two people so deserving of each other’s company, so when I had the pleasure of matching up two social deviants on the last heinous night of my recent spirit-crushing research trip, I was so full of pride afterward, that I still…

Back in Iasi

I’ve been back for three days and am just now feeling coherent enough to post. If you’re just joining us, this previous trip, the longest leg of my road research, was tough. I knew it wouldn’t be a cakewalk, but I didn’t expect it to test the limits of my…

Road trip

The longest leg of my road research kicks off tomorrow.  I think.  There’s a chance Mother Nature isn’t finished with me yet.  After four days of aggressive snow melting, we were 90% free from the drifts that had pile up over the course of three snow storms the week before. …

One key fits all

I got a sobering lesson on how secure my car and its contents aren’t last night. A friend of a friend was over, who also owns a Dacia 1310. He recently lost or broke the key to his trunk and needed to get something out of it, so he asked…

Enough with the winter %$#$% wonderland already!!!!

We got dumped on by the third snow storm in less than a week last night. The all night snow was preceded by about two hours of freezing rain, so things are slick as a luge track outside. The situation is starting to get a little dire. The Romanian snow…

Sights in the Romanian countryside at 90 KPH

Give a Man a  Bucket… Buckets are a big accessory in rural Romania.  Everyone carries one; children, men, grannies, like a countryside handbag. I would assume they are for hauling water from the well if they weren’t usually empty, so I’m not entirely sure why they’re such an ubiquitous item….

One step forward, four steps back, that’s the Romanian Shuffle

I don’t want this blog to become consumed with the ordeal of my car purchase, or everything else in Romania that is pissing me off come to that, but I can’t keep quiet on the events of yesterday.  I was one step, one step, away from finally being able to…

Gone Phishin’

You know what “phishing” is, right?  Ah, ah, ah!  Not all of you know or this wouldn’t still be the number one tool for hackers engaged in electronic fraud.  If you’ll allow me… Phishing is when an ill-intentioned person tries to trick you into giving them personal information that can…

The skinny on skin

After numerous consecutive weeks of freakish cold and snowy greyness, the likes of which would have made the hardest Viking sob, Iasi is going through a week-long bout of unseasonable warmth.  The sun is out, the snow and ice are all but gone and I have the windows open.  Though…

At the car wash

I got the car washed inside and out yesterday.  It’s a vast improvement.  Prior to this, just a few moments in the car infused one’s clothes and hair in the odour of petrol, oil and dirt, that lasted for days, which was not lending any credibility to my appearance when…

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