Category Archives: Quill & Ink: Scrolls

Armed to the hilt and fully covered

Posted on December 3, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

When moving to another country there is much that is unfamiliar and so navigating each day simply requires additional energy. After some time the perennial suspicion of being taken for a ride or short changed gently starts to subside. Realistically, nothing … Continue reading →

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Our Hearts and Hosts in Cleveland

Posted on November 29, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

It turns out that our host in Ohio is probably alien, but not alien like me, genuinely alien. Not only does his blood clot like no other normal living being but a variety of CT scans have revealed that his … Continue reading →

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Gobble Gobble – its upon us

Posted on November 24, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

The car speeds through Pennsylvania. Voices incant from the back of the car: “Are we going to sleep? “Yes.” we respond in emphatic unison. “Why are we going to sleep?” We ignore that one and have just succeeded in passing/overtaking … Continue reading →

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Clockwork toys to Congress

Posted on November 12, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

I started to draft this post last Sunday which was not a good day. I finished it in the doctor’s waiting room, the second of the waiting rooms in which you wait in the US. This is something that Jerry … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Winter Social to Euros

Posted on November 9, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

So what is the winter social? You poor Euros don’t know what you’re missing. You hang together at some naval bowling alley and eat M&Ms and cheap chicken wings and try to forget all about it by downing warm lager/beer. … Continue reading →

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Keeping Fear Alive

Posted on November 2, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

  Oh Dear Loving Blogosphere, I have woefully neglected you. Weekends are simply more exhausting than anything else. The culprit? An expectation of leisure.  A fallacy conjoured up by the bourgeois cauldron of life that suggests one can thread entertainment … Continue reading →

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Flamingos and Skeletons

Posted on October 29, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

  The annual halloween bone grinding has begun. From ignoring it completely in yr 1 (2005 – that year we also ate lamb for Thanksgiving – we had no idea that would be all that was left) we now go … Continue reading →

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What to do?

Posted on October 28, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

One Halloween parade down (Mongolian Prince with a Sword – Sword most noteworthy element), so now what next? I should start editing the 250 page report on the Misuse of Corporate Vehicles (not about dropping Pepsi in your corporate hire … Continue reading →

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Why a blog?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by InkQuillibrium

Why am I doing this? It goes against all my better judgement.  To start with I cannot even bear the word Blog. It is sloppy and ugly. Its contours have all the shapeliness of a half sucked sweet discovered between the cushion covers, although … Continue reading →

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