siggimus

Category: pics

  • travel tips for…

    airports all over the world

    don’t be just another franchise in the chain of hell

    kastrup airport

    offering people the chance to check in via one of those clever little kiosks you have all over & then having them wait in the same check-in line as the un-checked-in others to hand over baggage, kinda defeats the purpose

    airbaltic

    asking, 30 mins after planned takeoff, whether everyone is absolutely sure they want to go to riga & not vilnius, hinting that it woulda been an easy mistake to make, as the plane to vilnius looked exactly the same & was sitting at the next gate over, does not inspire great confidence in your (or kastrup’s) abilities to handle the complexities of modern air travel

    & running around for 20 more minutes after that with puzzlement & wonder written all over your faces before taking off without any explanation does not add to aforementioned inspirations

    latvia

    greeting dignitaries with temperatures of -14°c, is just not done

  • christmassy cat

    yuletide cat – one of the few songs that get siggimus into the festive feeling

  • sniegputenis

    sniegputenis in riga
    sniegputenis in riga

    so, for monday it says:

    snowstorm. mostly cloudy. cold. -13 … -16°c. wind 6 m/s

    mostly cloudy during snow storm? can’t wait to see that

    looking on the bright side, it seems to be slowly getting a little less cold. -13 … -16°c on tuesday

    & if siggimus will still be alive on wednesday, -7 … -15°c is more to his liking. it doesn’t even say auksts!

    yay

    not that siggimus really knows what dr?gns means. could be ‘deceptively cold – feels much colder than it actually is’

  • house crumbles

    couldn’t find a version with better sound 🙁

    but eeeexcellent song!

    & the poem by steinn steinarr just gives you yet another reason to learn icelandic, if you don’t know it already…

  • august

    went to theatre last night. saw fjölskyldan (august: osage county)

    fjölskyldan - august: osage county

    quite powerful & dramatic, but with lots of comic relief

    superb acting, good music, interesting set. good fun

    you don’t even notice that it’s a good 3,5 hours …

    (img shamelessly purloined from here)

  • no coincidence

    turns out it’s no coincidence that cat rhymes with brat

    every day when siggimus comes home from work, the little furry critter waits next to the door & starts grunting & mini-meowing to indicate that siggimus is to play & cuddle

    this instant

    so, siggimus tries to locate the toy (not easy!) to play a bit

    so, when siggimus finds the toy, he picks it up & throws it, along the floor, to the furthest end of casa siggimusum – all the way over to the east wing

    at which, ugla the cat shoots off like a rocket, chasing after it, generally coming to a screeching halt on the slippery parquet floor. only occasionally bumping into things a bit

    mostly, this goes well

    1,2 seconds after she reaches the toy, the joy of the hunt fades & the grunting & half-meowing starts anew

    occasionally, she will pick up the toy, run to siggimus & drop it at his feet

    occasionally as in once every 63 times or so

    the other times, she gives siggimus a puppy-eyed (yes, yes) look & half-meows a bit more. even half miaaaaas a bit. appealing to siggimuses infamous kindness & generosity of spirit

    being a kind & generous spirit, siggimus does her bidding

    repeat 150-200 times, or until right after siggimus collapses into a panting lump of wheeze on the floor, having run two and a half marathons (at least!)

    not that siggimus is complaining (siggimus would never do that!), but a bit of gratitude would be appreciated. do you hear that, ugla?

    update: seriously, some of those sounds are a kind of blend between meowing, purring & something that could come out of miss piggy. even more annoying at 5 in the morning…

    updated update: ‘cuddling’, for ugla involves siggimus risking various extremities in petting her or rubbing. this pleases her greatly momentarily, but typically evolves into her trying to bite sizable chunks off of said extremities within seconds. maybe this is because she can’t go out to hunt birds or mice?

  • sweet mother

    of all that is holy!

    sweet mother of all that is holy
    sweet mother of all that is holy

    people are trying to live here!!

  • weird & wonderful hotel

    siggimus is famous!!

    siggimuses pic on weird and wonderful hotels
    siggimuses pic on weird and wonderful hotels

    well, a tiny little bit famouser … they finally used his pic

    (here’s the original & here’s all of siggimuses pics from that place & here’s the prison’s web page)

    no, siggimus never slept there, he didn’t even participate in the ‘reality show,’ but has watched a ‘documentary’ about trying to catch ghosts & spooks there & janis’ band mary jane recorded there once, over night. apparently quite spooky

  • raggadunkudunkudunkudunkudunkdung

    (in celebration of)

  • en route

    en route, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    home

  • frozen bit

    frozen bit, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    one of a multitude that siggimus somehow managed to deftly circumnavigate, despite his disquietude

    what began as mild apprehension & slight concern, soon mutated into unabated fear, interspersed with near-panic and debilitating terror attacks as the frozen little bits reflected the beam from his super-duper headlight, as it slit open the hungry tar of darkness enveloping siggimus (much like moseses trick with the puddle) giving siggimus steady footing for to cycle on in the sea of oblivion

    (really really wants studded tires, does siggimus

    at that pace, old ladies with canes could have overtaken siggimus in throngs, were they given to thronging on dark & icy mornings)

  • straws



    next to, originally uploaded by siggimus.

    next to our stuff as we changed to bathing suits & jumped in river