So we finished the conference last night and I drank a lot of wine. Slept in (9:30) today and then went off to shop for these crazy things my daughter collects. I was a little early so I stopped in the Covent Garden Hotel tea shop and had a proper tea with buttered scones (I mean, with a little sieve you pour the tea over) and I figured what the ( Read more... )

It's 70 degrees out! This is the summer we never had. It's a beautiful day, the sky is blue. All my friends are complaining about raking leaves; I just watch the janitor do it. I have just completed a whirlwind adventure: one week ago I went to a high school reunion that was pretty mind-blowing and then threw in a quick business trip to London ( Read more... )

I'm preparing for a short trip to London, which in itself is preparatory for a longer trip in June. This is my first time back to the UK since 1967-68, when I lived in Oxford as a student. It goes without saying that things have changed since the days when I had to feed sixpences into a gas meter to stay warm ( Read more... )

While I was in Boston there was a rail accident caused by TEXTING WHILE DRIVING, and think you all know how I feel about that.... that that's not what I hate the guy so much. No, he gave me an earworm, thank you very much. See, I was trying to remember the name of Boston's transit system. I know in the Bay area it's the BART and in Chicago here ( Read more... )