February 10, 2014: The Empire Strikes Back

Monday and back to work. I was really exhausted getting up this morning after having worked so hard over the weekend and especially yesterday. I was really dragging this morning. On my commute I am now reading Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, translated to English of course. So far I am …

February 9, 2014: Unpacking Day and Star Wars

Today is our big unpacking day. Not that a lot has not been done already this week but the living room was still a forest of boxes this morning and the upstairs hallway was impassable between the old queen mattress and the load of cardboard still in the hallway. We slept in a little and …

February 7, 2014: Journey to the Center of the Earth

It is Friday! It was a busy day in the office, meetings galore. I managed to leave the office at a really good time today, though. On the drive home I finally finished reading Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” ready by Jeremy Irons via Audible. I am trying to fill in my background in classic literature of …