Halloween is a big holiday for us. Every year, we wait for the day after Halloween to buy discount halloween decorations to use next year. It’s always fun to open up the storage bins and see the new stuff that we bought a year ago. This year, we have a new fog machine and several new metal lawn decorations (complete with...
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Chrissy’s latest obsession is “30 Minute Meals” with Rachael Ray. She has TIVOed every show and watches them while feeding Aiden. Rachael Ray is sort of an anti-chef, in that she doesn’t wear a chef uniform, she doesn’t measure anything precisely and she cooks every-day food that anyone can enjoy. And...
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I got my God Neptune in the mail today, and I have to say that I’m not nearly as impressed as I thought that I would be. God Neptune is the Japanese Beast Wars repaint of the G1 Seacons combiner set, who merged to form Piranacon. The big difference is that there were six G1 Seacons, and each of the smaller members could...
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Tim and I landed in Chicago at 3 PM today. International travel is a strange thing, since we left Heathrow Airport at 12:50 PM local time. The flight was eight hours, but there is a six hour time difference (sending you back in time), hence a perceived two hour difference in local time. The downside is that I have to keep myself...
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I lost sight of Tim for a minute in Picadilly Circus, and the huge crowds of people moving up and down Regent Street swallowed him up. Michigan Avenue has nothing on Regent Street — there were easily a million people out on the sidewalk. I searched for Tim for awhile, but eventually took the tour bus back to the hotel. He had...
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Tim and I took the train from Cambridge to London and ended up in King’s Cross. It was about a 45 minute trip, and then we walked to the Underground station and took the Tube to Bank Station, which is three blocks from our hotel in the financial district. We spent the entirety of Saturday wheeling around London on a tour bus,...
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Our business trip to Cambridge, UK, was a success. The technology transfer group at Cambridge University was so impressed with our web portal that they asked if we could set them up with one of their own. As an added bonus, I was volunteered to do the heavy lifting. They were nice enough to fly us out here and take care of us, so...
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Tonight I have a flight from O’Hare at 9:28 PM to Heathrow Airport in England. The idea is to sleep on the eight hour flight, and then wake up magically at 11:15 AM tomorrow in a different country. There is a five or six hour time difference, so you’re losing almost as much time as you spent flying.
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