Moleskine notebooks

As you know (I hope), I went to France recently, and while I was there, I got a Moleskine for me, my girlfriend and my other friend (though I found out that you can get them in the U.S now...). I got the large 'cahier' (which is a stupid name since it means 'notebook' in french!) and I love it!

I got the squared one, and I use it all the time: as a journal to write down my thoughts, notes and reminders, and I'm even using it now to draft this article. Thought they are quite expensive ($12 each for the small notebook), its quality justifies the price, the tight binding, and especially the smooth, rich creamy paper (no perverted jokes intended!), that's a pleasure (again... no perv jokes needed) to write on with my pen (plastic Reynolds fountain pen for everyday use, or a nice marbled green Waterman at home). Then there's that special something about sitting down at home, taking out my fountain pen and just writing whatever comes to mind.

My Moleskine (and Reynolds fountain pen of course) have now become essential things that I carry around with me, along with my iPod Touch, awesome sony earbuds (thanks Julia!), my book and my cell phone (Samsung Eternity on AT&T). I have to have them around with me and I write in it daily.

Well I hope this article has prompted you to go out and get a Moleskine, and make the (partial) digital to analog switch (I admit I can't live without my iPod Touch). There are many hacks out there to improve productivity which I'm sure you can find.

--Mr. Sir

Parkour (free running)

Three years ago, I was watching the movie Casino Royale, amazed by the opening chase seen. I looked up the stuntman who played that part (he's French, of course) and found that he's not the only one. In fact if you look up 'free running' or 'parkour' on YouTube, you get a plethora of results. Anyways, the reason I'm writing this is because I'm going to teach myself to free run, and NOT get seriously injured.
So yeah. I just felt I should tell you all that incase you find me in a hospital!

Cheers,

Mr. Sir

Vacation pictures

Hey readers,

I came back from France a while ago and I uploaded a small portion of my pictures to my Picasa Web Album using Picasa 3 for Mac.
You can see these photos at www.picasaweb.google.com/eric.b.cramer

Awesome!!

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Hey guys, I found this picture while aimlessly surfing the web. Hope you like it!

France at last!!

Hey Readers!

We arrived in Paris from San Diego yesterday afternoon after sever wonderful flights, including an 11 hour flight from Los Angeles to London (eek!!)! After having been awake for more than 24 hours, we settled in with my dad's uncle and aunt's house (that makes them my great-aunt and uncle?), and had a delicious dinner courtesy of my (great) aunt. I went to bed at around 9 p.m since I was so dead tired, except, I woke up at 4 am!! I haven't been able to fall back asleep, so I've been up since 4 am (it's 7:41 am local time)

We haven't taken any pictures yet, well because we simply haven't had the time! But I'll make sure to post some good ones this time!! The others will probably go to my Picasa profile. I'll post a link to that if I want to...

Till next time!!

Mr. Sir

Vacation

Hey readers,

Right now I'm posting this from my iPod Touch using the wifi at the airport.
I'm going on vacation to France to visit friends and family (in case you didn't know I speak fluent French). I'm going to try to post some pictures since my dad finally agreed to let me bring my laptop.

Talk to you later!

Mr. Sir

Update...

Hey guys, I'm posting this with the new WordPress app for the iPhone and iPod touch. It's really cool, especially with the larger horizontal keyboard. Now I have no excuse to not keep up with my blog. Also I'm sorry that I didn't post the link for the pictures, I just got too caught up in things (though if you're reading this, I probably sent the link to you already.

Anyways,

Ciao for now!

Mr. Sir