Alice

I don’t have a saint name. Not in my country anyway.
One day, I don’t remember how old was I, I found my name on a French name calendar. It was December 16th and from that moment it had been my saint’s day.

Alice is a feminine given name used primarily in English, French and Italian. It is a shortened form of the Old French Adelais, which is derived from the Germanic name Adalheidis, from the Germanic word elements adal, meaning noble and heid, meaning type.
Alice was the fourth most popular female baby name in Sweden in 2005 and the sixth most popular name in 2007. The name ranks in the top 100 most popular names for baby girls in Australia, Belgium, France, Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, and Northern Ireland. It ranked as the 346th most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2007. Alice ranked as the 51st most common name for women in the United States in the 1990 census. In Japan, it is gaining popularity as “Arisu”.
The name was most popular in the United States in the Victorian era and at the turn of the 20th century. It has been popularized by Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. It was also popular in the Victorian era due to Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, a daughter of Queen Victoria. In the United States, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was occasionally known as “Princess Alice” in the press and inspired a song called Alice Blue Gown.

Unjustice and stupidity

Today was full of both. I don’t like to talk about any. I don’t let them affect me and I try to prevail, and when I do there’s no need to think about them, much less talk.
People that “practice” unjustice and show endless stupidity are pitiful. They don’t even know what “message” they are sending, they are convinced that they are right and they don’t even get mad like the rest of us, normal people, do when we come across their stupidity.

Life

I talked about Hattrick here before. It is a game and like any other game, it has users. And one of these users died today. I do not read the news on the homepage on a regular basis, but the “RIP” part caught my attention.
I do not like the subject “death” and I try to avoid it as much as I can. But when it comes to hear about young people die it’s not that simple to avoid it. I read the lines and followed the link to the the team’s page. It said that the respective team does not have a human manager. This team currently holds the last position of the most important Romanian series.
I entered the forum and found messages from this user announcing his retirement from Hattrick. It was in September. He was saying that he has to be admitted to the hospital for undetermined time.
Almost two months after the user and the person behind do not exist anymore.
He was saying that there are things way too important in life than the game. The others seemed not to understand the meaning of what he was saying. I don’t think they could at that time. They didn’t know what he knew.

Life could be incredible fragile and it scares the hell out of me. One moment you are here and you are breathing, reading, writing… The next, everything could vanish…

NYC Subway

While in NYC in 2007 the subway seemed a little bit complicated as I only took it once. In 2009 I got so used to the NYC subway and I even began to like it, especially the Shuttle, the connection between Times Square and Grand Central Station.

The 7-day Unlimited Ride MetroCard, which includes unlimited subway and local bus rides costs 27 dollars.

The NYC subway is one of the oldest and most extensive public transportation systems in the world, with 468 stations in operation (421 if stations connected by transfers are counted as a single station).
Among the world’s busiest metro systems it is the only one to run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Subway stations are located throughout the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

Many lines and stations have both express and local service. These lines have three or four tracks: normally, the outer two are used for local trains, and the inner one or two are used for express trains. Stations served by express trains are typically major transfer points or destinations.

The Times Square–42nd Street station is the busiest station of the New York City Subway.

But the entrance/exit right near the Police Department in Times Square is the smallest one I ever seen.

Moving

My HP HDX is home now and it’s working great. But what about the old laptop? I didn’t open it since I’ve come back. And I really should because there is a lot stuff to be moved. I am terrifed by this idea as I am by sorting all the things out and putting them in their place. The entire house is a mess right now. But I am not in the mood for anything. I will try though…

Jet lag

I don’t know what jet lag is. I mean I know that “it is a physiological condition which is a consequence of alterations to circadian rhythms; it is classified as one of the circadian rhythm sleep disorders. Jet lag results from rapid long-distance transmeridian (east-west or west-east) travel, as on a jet plane.
The condition of jet lag may last many days, and recovery rates of 1 day per eastward time zone or 1 day per 1.5 westward time zones are mentioned as fair guidelines.
When traveling across a number of time zones, the body clock will be out of synchronisation with the destination time, as it experiences daylight and darkness contrary to the rhythms to which it has grown accustomed: the body’s natural pattern is upset, as the rhythms that dictate times for eating, sleeping, hormone regulation and body temperature variations no longer correspond to the environment nor to each other in some cases. To the degree that the body cannot immediately realign these rhythms, it is jet lagged.”
I was lucky or I planned very well avoiding it and my body helped me.
So I can say that I tricked it out 4 times now.

Goodbye daily post?

Right now I would say it’s over, this daily post thing. But it depends. Four hours left to take off. Let’s see what means I have there. I mean I have the laptop, we’ll see how about the Internet connection. I am going to get ready…

Mess

I hate mess as I am a rather organized person. Since yesterday everything has turned into a mess. I have to do more things, I am losing precious time, I am afraid of forgetting something along the way. Have to calm down a bit, but I don’t like when things don’t turn out the way I intended. Well, that’s it for today. Have to take care of something…

Rain

I usually like rain, except when I am away from home wearing inappropriate clothes or shoes, when I don’t want my hair to get curly and when the traffic suddenly becomes a nightmare. I never understood what happens when it rains in terms of traffic. Everybody knew about the forecast of rain for this afternoon, but I don’t think everybody got in the car this morning. So why the heavy traffic? I know some get more cautious when it rains but even so…

My new HP HDX 16t

September 5′th is the day I’ll see my brand new customizable notebook. We will meet in New York and I will instantly fall in love with it. It’s in the making right know but it will be there waiting when I’ll set foot in JFK. I will let it in his box for some hours as I plan to take over the streets of Manhattan from the first night.
I am posting some pics, took by other owners until I come back, but not alone…