September 8, 2009: Leaving New York for Europe

Today is my big day, traveling from New York to Dublin to Amsterdam to Osnabruck in Germany where I will be spending the next week celebrating the German victory at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest on September 10th, 9 AD a whole two thousand years ago.  I have been planning this trip for almost a …

September 6, 2009: Sunday at Home

Today is Sunday, midday on my three day weekendish kind of thing.  Today and tomorrow we are mixing our time between just relaxing and spending time together as a family and getting things ready for my trip on Tuesday.  For the most part everything is ready.  Dominica really has the packing all planned and there …

September 5, 2009: Testing the GPS on the Camera

It’s Saturday and that means that my long, real vacation has semi-formally begun.  I don’t have any more “real” work before my trip to Europe.  I do have to work on Tuesday which is, more or less, a regular work day – a work day in which I leave work slightly early to go straight …

September 4, 2009: Hotels Are Booked

It’s Friday.  It’s a Friday going in to a three day Labor Day weekend so today is pretty slow at work.  It’s great.  Not only is today a relatively slow day but I actually have the weekend basically off – I am still doing some work tomorrow and covering on Sunday and unable to travel …