If rather tired yesterday.

In meeting. Coordinator still not found (probably somewhere in the labyrinth of Heathrow).

For those that care, I'll be in the United Kingdom next week, Maidenhead, England to be exact.

It's for work and I doubt I'll have much in the way of free time. But if you're wondering why I'm up and on-line at 4 in the morning, that will be why.

For those of you with the tolerance for such things, you can see the pictures from our Alaskan cruise here.

Please note the galleries are in the most recently to least recently updated, resulting in a somewhat confusing order. The correct order (with links directly to the galleries) is Anchorage and train trip to Whittier, Glacier bay, Skagway, ( Read more... )

So in about half an hour, ahf and I will be on our way for an extended vacation (almost two full weeks). We're taking a cruise down the Alaskan coast.

There will be pictures, you have been warned.

I got home yesterday, flight was on time, immigration and customs were a breeze, ahf was waiting for me as I got outside.

Really wanted to go to the Marian Call concert at Pandemonium but around 5 is started to crash and by the time it started (7pm), I was out.

Back at work today (luckily it's just one day to a long weekend).

This is the first of series of posts about my time in The Hague, Netherlands.

My first take on the Netherlands is that they really like their bicycles here.

I mean, really like them. There are special lanes for them on most roads, some roads are only open to them and everything immovable thing (except trees, with one exception) has at least one ( Read more... )

For those that care, I'm safely in the Netherlands and at work today, learning much of the culture of our recently assimilated component ( Read more... )

I'll be leaving for the Netherlands from work today.

Aside from the fact that I land there around 2:00am EDT and then have to make my way to my hotel in a different city, it should be fun.

Back on Thursday the 30th.

So I've just (via Google Maps and Streetview) previewed my walk from the Den Haag Central train station to my hotel (which, coincidentally, will take me right past the Den Haag office where I'll be working at almost exactly the half-way point). About one quarter the distance is walking along side a small canal, most of it is along tree-lined ( Read more... )

First, if I have to work in an office with cubes, I only hope that they buy these ones.

Second, I accompanied ahf on her last trip to Tucson, AZ and we played tourist while we were there.

On Thursday of that week, we visited Sabino Canyon and wandered around. Many pictures were taken.

On Friday, we visited the Pima Air & Space Museum. Even more ( Read more... )