Not much time for posting. Work is actually quite reasonable right now, but between giggglius' visit and planning our trip to London & Paris (we have a hotel booked for London and Chunnel tickets, but no room in Paris yet, I want to get stuff like that sorted out asap before things start selling out) I haven't had much mental bandwidth for other things ( Read more... )

I haven't had much time to post this week, but I figured I should mention that we're flying to London on May 23, and returning on June 2.

Now we just need to figure out where to stay. I picked up London for Dummies 2008 and Paris for Dummies 2007 and have flipped through the hotel list, but I haven't been able to sit down and focus on it due to ( Read more... )

...because I've been busy this week (with things other than work, many of which were fun or useful, so no worries) I'm a few days behind on reading LJ and (to a lesser extent) fi-uh. I have a good shot at catching up tomorrow night if you people don't post too much. ;P ( Read more... )

So we've been meaning to take a trip to Europe for a few years now. We always say it's too expensive, or we don't have time to plan it, or our schedules won't allow it, or whatever. But we're not getting any younger and we want to go, dammit. We have a fair number of frequent flier miles and Marriot Reward points thanks to work-related travel, and ( Read more... )

...are they venting the jet exhaust directly into the airport today?

Because that's what it smells like.

Since this will probably be my last business trip out to California, I arranged it so I'd fly home on Monday instead of Friday. I am spending the weekend at mrsmetallian's family's vineyard, where we have been bottling the 2005 pinot noir and enjoying fine meals and fine company. The bottling process involves some gadgets that are more or less foolproof, so I ( Read more... )

Okay, I have to admit I was kind of hoping my flight would be canceled (or delayed such that I would miss my connection) so I could go back to bed instead of to the airport...

Today was stressful for a variety of reasons ( Read more... )

Had an excellent time on vacation, will discuss it extensively later. Right now I am wicked tired. Got 4 hours of sleep last night and put mrsmetallian on a plane this morning. She will be in Tanzania for five weeks due to poor plane ticket availability. I won't see her again until she arrives in Indianapolis for GenCon on August 15th ( Read more... )

...this is exactly what one wants to read before a 6:30 am flight out of Milwaukee.

Plus the Patriots are out of the Super Bowl! Fuck you, news! And while we're at it, fuck you, snow! We got snowed in all day and didn't see Pan's Labyrinth like we planned...