As usual, where to start from after so long away - an assortment ( Read more... )

I am back! Had a wonderful trip this year. The best thing about it, honestly, was hanging out with my family; it was our first joint family vacation since 2002, all five of us together, and it was especially great to have baby sis join us from her current hometown of Brussels. But uh, the ski was great too :-) With occasionally challenging weather ( Read more... )

Happy December!
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But you know, while I'm here, how about some photos from Italy? I am being all organized this time and dividing into subjects, and desperately hoping Firefox doesn't crash as I compose this post because that would suck.

Warning: um, about 100 photos under the cuts. Some of them just to tell the story of where I was, most of them just because I ( Read more... )

Back! Italy was magnificent. Skiing was great. No one got injured, and I am only slightly aching and mildly bruised. I had, all in all, a really, really, really good time ♥. I'll make a post about it, as much as I can, photos and all (we took the big camera, and I'm very proud of some shots), but I will warn in advance that it is going to be all ( Read more... )

1. Tomorrow morning I shall set sail flight for fair Verona, where we lay our scene, hang out there for like an hour and then take a bus to the ski site where we will pass the week \o/ We will be Dad, my sisters, and one of my absolutely best friends, who is abandoning me doe Johns Hopkins at the end of the year (\o/! /o\! I can't decide!) so I ( Read more... )