Chris DeFlumeri

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Today We Went Inside A Glacier

Day 2 in Iceland, in many ways our first full day, started off with us getting lost in the rush hour Reykjavik traffic. We spent Thursday sleeping and kicking around town, and were ready to start our real vacation. Katie booked a tour called "Into The Glacier", where you got to do right what it said on the box, go into a glacier. It was a two hour or so drive north, so after checking with the front desk to make sure that we wouldn't die in a horrific windstorm, we left the Hilton at around »

Iceland, Where Apparently It's A Hurricane

I sit here, writing this, from the lounge of the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, a pretty nice hotel in Iceland. It's 6:53 AM local time, which I just learned is GMT, but it's really like 2:53 AM for us. Katie is crashing pretty hard, since she's not one to stay up past midnight, and I myself am pretty tired. Good thing we had Iceland Dunks to greet us in the airport. I even got a caffeinated coffee, because that was the only option. Iceland is too cool for decaf. So pumped, let' »

Donuts Are The New Cupcakes

Remember a few years ago, when cupcake shops were the hot new thing on every street corner? I mean, I'm not talking Dunkin' Donuts level market saturation, but in Boston it seemed like there were cupcake stores everywhere. My sister even worked in one for a while. There were also shows like Cupcake Wars on TV (maybe that's still on?). Even I got into it back when I was baking a lot, I remember making a few different kinds, German Chocolate being one of the best. I'll admit, despite the fact tha »

Meet the New Site, Better than the Old Site

Better, eh? Hello, person! Head on over to me [https://deflumeri.com/me] if you don't know who I am. I decided a few months ago to revamp my site, which I hated, and eventually forced the issue by simply letting my cheap hosting plan lapse. I didn't bother backing up any of my old data, because I didn't really care about it, so now I get to start fresh. It's going to be better this time, I swear! Why is this better, again? Well, the writing is probably going to be »