Sunday, September 14, 2008

Jason The Man's European Vacation

Dear Diary:

Guess who is going to Europe? Give up? This guy (pretend I am pointing at myself with one hand and giving a thumbs-up with the other hand).

Being a man now means that sometimes I have to travel for my job as a maintenance program engineer for a giant aerospace and defense corporation that rhymes exactly with "Boeing". If there was such thing as a PBS miniseries called Jason the Man's Travel Diaries, this episode might be called Jason the Man Goes to Europe! (If you work for PBS and would like to use my travel diaries idea, let's talk! Being a man now means that I will possibly even donate limited use of my likeness for the benefit of public broadcasting.)

In addition to exploring new uncharted Man-itory and keeping an open mind for new Man-'speriences, I am also looking forward to furthering my existing interests in the elegant and refined culture of Europe! Such as: fancy wine, fancy food, fancy café (that means coffee), fancy exotic liquor, fancy tea, and fancy artwork. Europe is going to be great!

Look out, Europe: A Man is coming, and he is hungry for cultural appreciation! Also, his name is Jason and would like it if you helped him with directions to the train station.

I told my palskis about my idea for a PBS travel diaries miniseries that maybe features a mid-to-late twenties young professional, possibly in the aerospace and defense maintenance program engineering industry, who goes to Europe to experience exciting adventure and enjoy the finer points of refined European culture, but they did not think that the format was very appropriate! They thought that instead I should first make a movie called "Jason is a Man Now", and my travel experiences could be documented in the 2nd sequel called "Jason the Man's European Vacation", but the 1st sequel should be called "Look Who's A Man Too" and should have a baby who talks in it!

Being a man now means that I have to accept that my palskis might not be in my target PBS travel diaries miniseries demographic.

This is Jason the Man, signing off.