passages: part one.

*sigh.  it has been too long since i have been able to get back into the blog again.  i use the word able cautiously and more as an excuse than anything. 



although much has been happening with me and boBo and the both of us together, i have been finding it hard to choose my words succinctly enough to put on the screen.  the coincidental computer slow down at the house has been a convenient scapegoat, if nothing else. 



since the beginning of march when the two of us were able to get away from italy and into steamy baths and swanky pubs, nothing has really been the same around these parts. 



for one thing, if tourists could be compared to the volume adjuster on your choice of music-listening-device, then the police should be called in for a noise complaint.  the early part of the year, although seemingly heavy with groups of ear-mic cladded followers of heightened umbrellas was simple fare to what has happened once "spring" arrived.  the waves of flashes going off and rivers of determined site-seers passing by my doorstep have given me more than ample excuses for staying in or exiting the walls of the city for weekend excursions, something of an on-going thing as of late.