So, the trip is definitely on. Two weeks from now I'll be on a series of Icelandair flights bound for Stockholm. Plan is to land on Sunday the 25th, spend the day up in Uppsala with Julia and Daniel. Spend the day in Stockholm on Monday; fly over to Aland on Tuesday; spend the next two days working at the supplier and then fly from Aland all the ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm well behind on LJ. At least a week. If you have a major life event from that time and you want me to know now, please tell me seperately ( Read more... )

7 AM call with China this morning, followed by another one at 8 PM or so tonight. Yay.

A confluence of reasons that I don't care to explain put this song in my head today: ( Sister Cry by the Jayhawks )

One of my projects at work got announced the public yesterday. Details here for the curious: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19747.wss

For the most part, had a had a good time on my trip earlier this week. Got up first thing on Sunday and drove up to the MSP airport (all the flights out of RST had been booked, so I couldn't get a flight out closer to home). Direct flight to La Guardia. Picked up the rental and set off for Manhattan to meet up with uncbiscuit. Chrissy and Andrew were great ( Read more... )

I swear, every dang trip I've taken for work this year I know is coming a month ahead of time, but so much hemming and hawing goes on in getting them approved that I end up booking the darn things only a week ahead of time.

Anyways, I'm going to be in Conneticut next Tuesday for work. Flying out on Sunday so that I can get a day to visit uncbiscuit and zetageminorum in ( Read more... )

Ugh. Left the house at about 7:30 this morning. Got back at 8:30 this evening. Spent most of the time in between camped out in a conference room at one of my suppliers. Going to bed shortly.

Amazing how Sunday seems like Monday when you have to work all day and are surrounded by people working.

Just got back about a half an hour ago from one of the DNR frog survey routes that Andrea signed us up for. I can report that the Hokah area has plenty of Spring Peepers and Western Chorus Frogs, but the La Cresent riverfront had crap for amphibians. And Liv, who slept through most of it, is of course wide awake now ( Read more... )