Please Accept My Apologies

There are still problems with this site. All my scheduled entries do not show up "below the jump" after they publish until I rebuild each one individually. So the scheduled mystery bird and the videos will taunt you but you will be unable to comment or read/view anything below the jump until I've found wireless at the airport and have been able to rebuild each and every scheduled blog entry .. unless the SB overlordz have gotten this issue fixed, but alas, I will be out of internet/email/blog contact for roughly 18 hours today, which means I cannot complain to hurry the process along. I have changed the archives publishing so this MIGHT solve the problem, but this will cause your comments to publish when the entire site is rebuilt (every 12 or 15 minutes?) instead of immediately after you hit "publish". Of course, you are welcomed to post useful suggestions, but the overlordz are aware of the problem and are working on it.

While I am complaining, I have one -- and only one! -- complaint about my visit to Tallinn: they didn't stamp my passport! So I have the pictures (roughly 800 images, by the way) and a t-shirt with "Eesti" embroidered on the front from that visit, but NO PASSPORT STAMP! Boo on you, Estonian passport control! I even get a stamp on my passport when traveling between Canada and the USA now, which doesn't involve a two hour ferry trip, so what's with that?

I also want your advice and suggestions for fun places to hike in NY that are 1.5 hours north of NYC or less? My friends, Mike, Bob and I have a car over the next few days after I've returned to NYC and we want to spend some time exploring nature in NY state. Mike, who has the car, suggested that we either "go hiking up at Bear Mountain State Park -- there's a nice view from the top, and part of the Appalachian trail runs through the park -- or to go up to Slabsides -- that's the naturalist John Burrough's old cabin. Can't go in the cabin, but there are supposed to be some nice short trails on the grounds."

This would be a fun adventure for me since I've never had the funds to rent a car and explore the state, so my experiences in NY are limited to anywhere I can get by riding the subways/busses/walking/bike riding in the city itself.