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One Blog Too ManyArchive for August, 2006
Blog is Back
Hello Again:
The blog is back in working order because:
1) I’ve finally settled back into the USA way of doing things, plumping myself with McDonalds and instant food items, and
2) I lost my job and have exponentially more time on my hands.
…yes, I am indeed looking for a job, and because I write in here from time to time doesn’t mean I’m not devoting the bulk of my time to those ends, so if you hear of anything you are to email me pronto, ok? If you want to hear the wonderful story of how I became unemployed, well, in that case you can also email me and I’ll tell you. ‘S a good one!
I miss my people back in Austria terribly. I do hope you’ll all be in touch. In addition to the contact info I put on the previous post, I’ll also say, my Skype name is JamionW and that is a very good way of keeping in touch.
Some other changes:
– I changed the appearance of this blog to signify transatlantic crossing. And because I was tired of the old way.
– Unregistered users can now leave comments.
– I’ve added a Pandora feed to the sidebar. If you don’t know what Pandora is, go check it out.
– Now you can get to this site by using one of the following web addresses (there was a sale at godaddy.com):
www.jamion.info
www.jamionwilliams.com
…good to see you again 
More to come,
Jamion
Wrapping Up in Salzburg
Hello All: I just wanted to tell you all that I am very grateful for your warmth and hospitality over the last three months.
Salzburg has been refreshing to me, professionally and personally, and I will always look back upon my time here fondly.
However, I am most indebted to you, the staff, who have really shown me the absolute definition of professionalism. Thank you for teaching me by example. I hope very much that we can stay in touch—you only have to look in the database to get my contact info—and that I will see you all again in the future when I come to visit!
Again, thank you all for everything… Jamion Williams
Kudos
Thanks to the wonderful Britt Sylvester I am uploading about 13 new pictures to the feed on the right. This is just to let you know that those were taken by her and not me.
EDIT: Did I say 13? Make that, like, 50.
Rant: Shower
The shower that is in my room is evil and is only becoming increasingly more so as the time of my departure from it approaches.
At first I simply thought it inconvenient. And it is. A hideous detachable shower head, it only works well when it’s used in its normal “non-detached” position; but this is hard to do when the home base for the shower head is in the middle of the wall of the shower, facing out so that when turned on it shoots water into the bathroom, effectively flooding it.
However, that’s not that bad, I guess. You can always just hold the shower thingy. But recently it’s been changing temperature and pressure on me. And that, this morning, became dangerous.
I think that my shower is at the tail end of the “hot water” queue, so that every time another shower comes on, or a toilet flushes, or someone imagines ill-will toward me, it goes from chilling cold to unimaginably hot. And, when it does this, it will trickle down to a little stream and then surge to Niagra proportions.
It wasn’t too bad until this morning when the water actually became so hot that it burned me. And I mean that. I was washing my back when all of the sudden the shower water turned boiling hot and surged in pressure so hard that the shower head came out of its base and fell to the ground. There it struck my toe and then continued to spew boiling water on my legs. I, covered in soap and unable to do anything but scream “AIIIEEEEE!!”, hopped my nekkid, burnt, terrified body right out of the tub and onto a floor rapidly flooding due to the abovementioned showerhead snaking its way left and right, expelling water everywhere.
I don’t know what I’m going to do. I could just stop taking showers for the next week, or I could try to exorcise the shower head. Whatever I do, I’m at the end of my rope. Suggestions?
Jamion
