The threat

Here is the Stationery set heard round the world. We had grabbed it at a department store the morning of the day we flew out of Shanhai, and unthinkingly crammed it into our overstuffed carry on luggage. Unfortunately, our round-edged safety scissors constituted a looming threat to airport security! The security girl (who was actually quite nice) offered us the option of going back through security lines, customs lines, passport check lines and gating lines to place the box in checked luggage. We picked the option of throwing the box into the trash can. Mr. Tiki and Security Girl sighed, dragged the set out of th trash, deftly removed the offending scissors, and sent us on our merry way.

( checked )

The Siberian Ham

Wanted to add some babble to this imagery from our Trans Siberian experience. Here's the first thing: no WiFi on the Trans Siberian! Woe is us.

( my life of suffering and grief )

Cold War Kids

Anyone else heard of this band? We just heard Hang Me Up to Dry, and kind of freaked out. Is this another band that just did one humongously amazing single and we'll get the CD and it'll be crap and we'll be all disappointed again?

(We'll probably end up buying the goddam CD anyway--we're suckers like that. Oh, and we might get a Mandy Moore CD. *gah* Yes, you can de-friend us. We deserve it.)

Our day

Went to the used CD store because it's been a whole month since we went to the used CD store since it was here and we were in like Mongolia 'n stuff.

Anyways, grabbied skazillions of CDs. (And cheated and bought a couple of new.)

And spilled them all over the counter where the Used CD Store Guys helpfully sneered at our lack of Used CD Store Guy Cachet.

The one Used CD Store Guy who's unfortunately Not Quite Cool Enough finally spoke and said, "Wow, big day."

"We've been in Mongolia dude."

*goggles*

"Mongolia?"

"Mongolia."

*goggles*

"Uh, how was it?"

"Cool."

(Tiki kind of lives to have these conversations. Yeah, we're kind of fucked up.)