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.

Onehundrednineteen - More 3 Hour Meetings

More presentation reviews, gotta love 'em.

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.