At times like that, I really wonder why I’m not living here any more.

Rooftop hookah with Suraj&Nicky, dinner at Will’s… Making the best
of SF’s never-ending Indian Summer…

Near my house…

Considering I woke up this morning, with a bright orange paper bracelet around my wrist and a nascent headache around my brain, I see only one plausible explanation: I was abducted and experimented on by aliens in a secret US military facility.

That or I had way too many free drinks yesterday.

If you belong to the great Facebook family and don’t know what to do with your weekend, why don’t you go spend it playing with my latest production: a kickass personalized trip-recommendation application.

My home for the month to come…

So this morning, I am sitting in Parc Monceau, perusing Paris’ public-park-wide open wifi, trying to pull the schedule for my afternoon train.

Trying, because despite being on my twentieth online ticket booking for the month, trying to get anything out of French National Railway’s website feels like trying to get freshly squeezed OJ from a stone. I am not sure how exactly the whole “prevent users from getting a ticket online at all cost” fits into their business plan, but I guess if you take in account their laughably bad track record in all areas of service, it is merely brand identity on their part.

Twenty minutes and still no luck trying to get a single schedule for a local train departing 10 times a day from Paris (website timing out or randomly crashing at varying levels of the 50-step process), I had an illumination and remembered a friend telling me about how it was probably easier booking a French train through Deutsche Bahn, German’s national railway company. At the time, I thought it was a joke.

Well, it’s not.

In approximately 1/100th of the time I spent attempting unsuccessfully to get a schedule for a French local train (from a French city, to a French city) on the official French website, I got the exact same info (available in 4 languages) on a German website.

It would be funny if it wasn’t so lame.

Like the other Lehman, this one can also make you go blind and ruin
your life.

Making up for last month’s rather poor health regimen by going all-bike this month.
According to Velib’s website, I currently got a 17.4km daily average going on.

Windy but still nice…