Onehundredfourtyseven - Thursday

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!