Today is the day! I was up at six this morning so that I could continue preparing for the trip to the UK. It is a gorgeous bright and sunny morning. Hopefully that means that there won’t be any flight problems and that we will be able to leave on time. I am glad that …
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November 15, 2007: The Last Day Before the Trip
Only one more day left until we leave for England. We have been hard at work trying to finalize our plans. We are not going to make any attempt to go to France or to the continent in general but we do believe that we will be managing to see a little bit of England, …
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November 14, 2007: No France for Us
Just in time for us to make travel decisions, the public transportation workers in Paris went out on strike today which means that if we arrived there we would have no means of getting around in the city and might even be trapped at the train station where we arrived. Not a good situation. As …
November 13, 2007: Three Days to Europe!
Dominica and I made an attempt at going to the Chinese restaurant on Commerce Street here in Newark that is directly across the street from us as we have not even tried to eat there yet all of the time that we have lived here. It is impossible to tell when this restaurant is open …
November 12, 2007: OLPC XO!
Today is the release of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC XO computer! Even with just two hours of sleep Dominica got me out of bed and made me head out to the computer at a quarter after six in the morning to place one of the very first orders for our very own XO. …