London Calling

I can no longer wake up 15min before I have to be at work, get dressed and jump on my motorcycle to travel the empty streets before starting my workday. When I'm not contracted out I'm sitting at the "Home" office in central london, "researching". The commute is about an hour by tube, which affords me some time to read (a past time I have missed since my pre-college days). Right now I'm reading the autobiography of John Peel... He was (now passed away) a BBC Radio 1 DJ for 37 years whom I started listening to about 5 years ago in Milwaukee. If you haven't heard about him, you most definitely have heard some of the bands that he is credited for making the careers of such as David Bowie, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Smiths, The White Stripes... and so many more. I also credit him and his Radio 1 show, which played a range of music from bird chirps to angry death metal, for the headphone policy unofficially instituted in my Marquette office.

In keeping with the family tradition, I have joined a lawn bowling league with some of my colleagues, or Proper Bowls as it is known here. I've put up some pictures of the bowling green in which we will play. Unfortunately I have the feeling that it has no resembalance to the 10-pin bowling in the States. I can't describe it yet, but this is a response from one of my co-workers when asked if he wanted to join:

"I come from up north, have a flat cap, bare feet, can drink oodles of beer and bowl a demon googly........... or throw a chinaman if you prefer.
P.S. Can bring my own whippet.... well trained and brings back balls when ordered (opposition beware)"

If that doesn't help clear things up...

There are new pictures in the photo gallery link...including shots of the lawn bowling green, Liverpool Street Terminus (the busiest rail station in London and my daily work destination), Cassie and our friend Elizabeth on a rooftop garden around the corner from my office, and the street I work on.