Thursday, May 27, 2010
Onehundredfourtysix - Good Bye Party
One of the team is relocation to the US, and soon another Director will be in place here. Times are changing again.
Onehundredfourtyfive - Meeting Monday, but it is Tuesday
Crazy, Crazy with meeting all day. At least it is a short week.
Onehundredfourtyfour - Zoo
Our son is awesome. We were at the zoo today, and as we walked away from each animal he said "bye, bye", and when we watch the seals being fed, he clapped his hands and said "bravo". He's 17 months old.
Onehundredfourtythree - Park
The other day our son tried to take a shovel from a little girl while playing in the sand box. He's not aware yet of ownership. When he grabbed it she exclaimed "nein, nein, nein" in German. He replied, "nein, nein, nein". He has been repeated things quite a bit recently. But this morning he started playing with all the knobs on the stove, while we were cooking breakfast. My wife said, "no, no, don't do that" and he walked away. He grabbed the chair at the kitchen table and turned around, "nein, nein, nein." He's now a translator.
Onehundredfourtytwo - New Comp
We just got a new computer. Everything was great, but when I tried to install MS Office on it, it would not install. So I rebooted, and it blue screened on me. I cannot stand that. You buy a nice piece of equipment for once, and out of the box there is an issue. This shouldn't happen. I was able to recover from it, but I should not have to reinstall the OS on a new system just so the fucker works?!? I was a bit disenfranchised by this.
Onehundredfourtyone - Chill Day at Work
The last day in the office before a 3 day weekend. Most people took the Friday off too so they could have a 4 day weekend. It was nice to be able to get some work done in a low stress environment.
Onehundredfourty - Ready for Weekend
For some reason this day seemed to drag on and on. It was 2pm and it felt like it should be 6pm, maybe there was something in the lunch food which slowed the afternoon down.
Onehundredthirtynine - Babysitting
I gained quite a bit more insight today. I got home from work and planned to relax, but from the moment my wife left for the evening, our son started to cry, a lot. It took about an hour to put him back down. My wife is awesome for all that she does!
Onehundredthirtyeight - Unihockey II
Not sure what it is, but I was on Fire today again! Sorced the first and the last, winning goal. Damn that felt good! Boo-Yah!
Onehundredthirtyseven - 1st Day Back at Work
As far as first days back go, this was quite reasonable. Not to much to argue about here.
Onehundredthirtysix - Rest Up
Sunday was a recovery day for all the running around in Italy. It was quite exhausting getting in so late the night before.
Onehundredthirtyfive - Giro d'Italia
We thought we had more time to check out, but had to at 10am. We decided to stop by Montalcino on the way to the airport. It was a slow steady rain the entire day. As we arrived in Montalcino it was packed, completely! Then we saw signs for the Giro d'Italia. NICE! So we parked, which seemed to be completely outside the city, and walked in. The rain kept coming. We walked around, took some pictures, grabbed some Pizza, and headed out. We figured the roads would be closed soon to let the race through. We still had a plane to catch and didn't want to be stuck in Italy. We were just able to get out, and were even turned around because of road closures, but managed to press on. They must have closed the roads about a half hour later. We got to the airport after cracking the Rental Car Return secret location. We let our son play a bit before checking in, but when we did the line was completely ridiculous. There were only two people were checking in about 300 passengers. The line for Security was about 2 people. We got to the gate and the plane was an hour and fifteen minutes late.
Onehiundredthirtyfour - Winding Roads
Our last full day we decided to drive up the road and follow the Chianti trail. I would not recommend this drive for anyone who is easily tested with car-sickness. My wife braved the drive and held tough for the whole trip. She's a trooper!
Onehundredthirtythree - Bella Gelateria
We went back to San Giminano and decided to stay longer than 35 minutes. We parked on the other side of town in a large lot with long term parking. This took us a different way through town and we were surprised how different the town felt, just going off the main tourist paths and exploring the town. We avoided 90% of the tourists and really had a nice time. We even found a play ground and let our son swing for a little bit. Then we ducked back into town for some of the BEST homemade gelato I have ever had, I asked for the "Delicia". I would make a trip to that gelateria just for that!
Onehundredthirtytwo - Siena
Our day trip to Seina was really great. It took forever to find parking, and I stressed about the car the whole time, because we parked on an obsure street with temporary parking signs set up for a market. The city is perhaps one of the most charming we have ever seen. Not a big city, but enough to make it feel big. We really enjoyed it. I was so happy to see the car where we left it.
Onehundredthirtyone - No Place Like Home
We decided to visit some less popular towns, but were actually disappointed. We drove through one and stopped in another. Not to say that these towns were not special, but we would not have noticed that on a superficial visit. We walked through one and somehow quickly left.
Onehundredthirty - Volterra
We drove to Volterra today. The drive was really nice and not too winding. We were pleasantly surprised by Volterra. It must have been a hot spot for the Romans because there were ruins surrounding the town, well maintained architecture and walls. The added bonus was walking with our son up a small hill to a park with nice views.
Onehundredtwentynine - San Gimignano
As it would turn out, we followed the first sign to the parking places, unfortunately it was a one hour parking lot. We had heard this town was a huge tourist trap, but it looked nice regardless. We scrambled around for about 35 minutes, and headed back to the car before our time was up. Totally not relaxing, but I think we got a few good pictures.
Onehundredtwentyeight - Drive to Tuscany
We drove to Tuscany while stopping in my wife's grandmothers' village. I am so glad I got the GPS. I would have never found anything. Although the GPS did direct us to our place in Tuscany via a closed dirt road, I was able to use my mental GPS to get us to a point where the GPS was able to reroute us to the right place.
Onehundredtwentyseven - Going on Vacation
We flew to Rome today to begin our week long holiday. We had planed on going to into Rome, but never made it. We had to get 3 different rental cars (1st for some reason could not function with the GPS I had requested - not sure why because that plugs into the cigarette lighter, and let's face it almost everyone smokes in Europe, so the damn thing should have one; 2nd replacement car was a chinced out 2-door Alfa Romeo posing as a sports car, which may have been fine but we had our son with us and his car seat and didn't want the inconvenience of the 2-door; 3rd car was ok but it was a brand new Peugeot which I was paranoid about the whole time because I didn't want trouble if it was returned with a dent or worse despite our almost full coverage ($1000 deductible), and couldn't withdrawal money from the ATM to pay cash for the Hotel, had to get food for dinner, and by this time it was 6pm. No Rome.
Onehundredtwentysix - Chest Pain
I must be allergic to work or sometime, I had the most uncomfortable chest pain all day! I couldn't figure out what it was, but it seemed to begin the day before and it lasted for a while.
Onehundredtwentyfive - Flight Home
Finally the meeting is over and I can go home. The location was nice, but It is always better with family. Even though I didn't get to bed until midnight, It was good to be back.
Onehundredtwentyfour - The Meeting
Get a group of 7 high profile people who are experts in their field in a room and present to them for 2 days. Add to it a short fused moderator who is batting for the 7 and it makes for a real fucking treat. I can't wait until vacation.
Onehundredtwentythree - Flight to Mallorca
I had to leave for this meeting today. I'll be home on Wednesday after this 1.5 day presentation is over with. I think AirBerlin had their flight music donated, they were playing "Sweet Home Alabama, All Summer Long"; Cheryl Crow - Fight for this Love, Stanfour - Wishing you were, and Robbie Williams - Morning Sun. I actually took the time to write this down, because it was the pinnacle of my day (at 6am) and since I knew that the complete misalignment with my music preferences was certainly blog-worthy. To top it off, the same damn Cheryl Crow song was playing in the cab on my way to the hotel!
Onehundredtwentytwo - Home with Family!
I wish I was independently wealthy so that I could stay home and watch my Son grow up.
Onehundredtwentyone - Home with Family!
I really live for the weekends. My wife is awesome, she is really good with our son, he is talking more than other kids and has so much personality, she is really a great mother to him. He awesome too.
Onehundredtwenty - Dentist
I know I need to take care of my teeth more. I just cannot wait until the drilling is finished. One more visit.
Onehundredeightteen - 5 Hour Meetings
More meetings? Yeap, five hours of dialoging through a presentation for next week. I cannot wait until it is over with.
Onehundredseventeen - Unihockey (Floor Hockey)
I don't know what it was today, but I totally kicked ass in Unihockey! We usually play at lunch so it is no more than an hour, today I was on fire, I scored about 6 times, and had easily as many assists. Needless to say we won.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Onehundredsixteen - Booked Solid
Sometimes I don't understand meetings. We sit, we talk, we all get up to speed on things we normally should all know, and then we spend time writing them up with another meeting the following week. It is rediculous. We should all talk anyway. I think I am going to start canceling meetings.
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