Breigh and I stayed up and blethered late into the night, and thus the geekery that was postponed is in full swing today… a demo of World of Warcraft for my benefit, and watching/listening to American Idol courtesy of Bit Torrent. I got rid of the TV in Pennsylvania so I haven’t watched a single [...]

BMI Baby, Flight 1013

Dutch rail, Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport to Rotterdam Centraal

Birthplace of William Shakespeare and where Lucy and I spent the day. Just some photos for now.

Lucy and I spent the day in Birmingham, which is about half an hour away from Wolverhampton — a hop, skip, and a jump by North American standards. We had a meal at one of her favourite restaurants, a non-GMO modern Asian place called Wagamama, did a bit of shopping at the giant Bullring [...]

dog-tired (Terry in her moose bed)
While I pulled an all-nighter, poor Berit had only a few hours’ kip after the exhaustion of yesterday. Driving to the airport (again) at 6 o’clock on a Sunday morning is nobody’s idea of fun times. But I’m glad I didn’t stick with the original plan of trying to make [...]

Vinny’s memorial went very smoothly, considering all the planning and organisation involved, and I was relieved that there were no technical glitches with the presentation. The PowerPoint file became massive and unwieldy towards the end, but it posed no problem during the program. (Whew!) I will upload the presentation to this site after I get [...]

Took a slew of photos this afternoon in the harbour when a bunch of us went for a boat trip and around town. Some friends of Berit and Jez arrived from England, so we took the opportunity to be tourists and enjoy the sunny (and rather brisk) weather. I haven’t taken many photos all week, [...]

The morning meeting at Hamburg Airport with the event coordinator yesterday was very productive. We hashed out how the terminal would be prepared with tables and food, supplies, locations of the facilities, the usual laundry list of pre-event details… (to be continued)
In the evening, Iris and Yvonne picked us up and we went to Katya’s [...]

Last Sunday I took Iris by surprise by getting Berit to phone her and then hand the phone over to me. I’d been meaning to ring her last week to let her know that I was coming to Hamburg to attend Vinny’s memorial service, but I never did get around to making that phone call. [...]

A late start today, partly due to the late end to yesterday (I was on a bit of a tear, scanning away until the wee hours), and sleeping in a bed. The previous two nights I fell asleep on the couch and woke up naturally at 06:00-06:30, even though my stuff was set up in [...]