This is my dad's visited world map:



create your own visited country map

He's bitter I won't let him include airport stopovers (he was traveling for business in the days of 707's when you had to refuel when you crossed the Pacific and such). Like he needs Fiji, Uganda and Egypt to make his map look more impressive.

UPDATE: I gloated in an e-mail to my dad that I'd visited Thailand and the Philippines, which he hadn't. His response:

I would have Philippines and Thailand if you let me include airports. Also, Fiji, Uganda, Cape Verde islands (a territory of Portugal), Abu Dabi, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Which, of course, makes me even more determined to make airport stopovers off-limits. And if he was going to use the Cape Verde Islands to claim Portugal, then I'm using Macau, which was a Portuguese territory when I was there. Harumph.

It's snowing here. Again. Right after I finished shoveling. I'm starting to get a bit bitter about this. Yeah, yeah, I know, we're just getting a couple of inches here, not like the 20 inches that got dumped on North Dakota, but still.

I was supposed to have my first Journalist's Boot Camp class last night, but it was canceled due to some sort of emergency for the instructor. This, and the fact that I didn't realize we wouldn't have class on President's Day, means the boot camp will overlap with my proofing gig by about four weeks. There will not be much sleeping in March.