Yesterday I spent most of the day doing general maintenance: cleaning up the house a bit, returning bottles and cans and doing some grocery shopping, going to Gartner's for some delicious meat products, and doing several hours of yardwork. That meant that I was exhausted and crashed early after watching some TV. That turned out [...]
It's Memorial Day weekend, and I'm glad I've got an extra day off, as the past week has been pretty exhausting.
Thursday (Kelly's birthday) Kelly spent the afternoon downtown. We went and had a delicious lunch at Mother's Bistro & Bar and then I went back to work while she wandered around town and shopped until [...]
Happy Birthday to Kelly! Everybody go 'round to her blog and say hi.
3:15am. Awake suddenly, moments later, I hear a smoke detector sound downstairs and notice light flooding up from the stairway. I rush out and downstairs, finding Kelly standing on an end table while the detector screams intermittently. I jump up and help disconnect it while ants are crawling up my arms and across the ceiling [...]
Finally a followup to my last post since returning from London. The cold I got at the end of the trip lasted quite a while, much longer than I'd hoped (and then, sadly, I gave it to Kelly), and since then I've been getting back into the normal life.
Over the past couple weeks I've gone [...]
Well we made it home safe. I didn't write Monday when we got back because we didn't make it home until 9:30 and after being up and going for 20 hours, it was all I could do to make it to the couch and pass out. What made it all worse was that when I [...]
Well, yesterday was both fun and strange. We got on the bus as planned after I finished the last post, but it didn't take us to Westminster as I'd thought, but to Waterloo Station (across the Thames from Westminster Abbey / Parliament / Big Ben). No problem, we just hopped the tube from the station [...]
Since my last report, we've done quite a bit. We did take a river cruise to Hampton Court Palace. It was both enjoyable and miserable at the same time. We were under the impression by looking online that the trip from Westminster Dock to Hampton Court was an hour and a half. It took three [...]
Hey all, back at the internet cafe to check my map for a few things. Yesterday we took the tube out a bit off the beaten path to the Hammersmith region. The reason? I wanted to see the street that was used at the start of this Monty Python sketch sketch (and another that that [...]
Hey gang. Bad news, the WiFi access we'd been leeching off of got wise and blocked us. So we no longer have free internet from the hotel (meaning, these reports are bound to get a bit less frequent, as now we have to go to an internet cafe and pay).
Yesterday we covered quite a bit [...]
