My son Jeremy seems to have found a summer job watching the World Cup for the next month. He’s generally thought that soccer was boring to watch, but decided that if you have a bet going on a game, it
I traveled to Dubai, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia during February over a roughly 10 day period. Half the time was in Saudi Arabia. I think that I am a chaos muppet; every country I visited on this trip was
Today is my 60th birthday. Both my grandfathers didn’t make it to 60. My dad just celebrated his 90th birthday and still has his marbles. I can feel that I have seen some of history go by over the years.
Is there really a difference between an airplane pilot and an Uber driver? Pilots can’t really see what’s in front of them and they both depend on navigational aids to get where they’re going. When I landed after a flight
We just returned from a family vacation to Europe. Travel Notes are at the end of this posting. The Fourth of July for me this year won’t be just any holiday — my parents will be over for dinner celebrating
One advantage I have as to having passed algebra 1 on the curve (and then not learning any other math above that) is that I am completely useless to my kids with their math homework and they know it.
On our two week holiday, we visited Egypt for 10 full days, and made two night stopovers in Athens and Vienna on the way in and out. I last visited Egypt in 1992 and was nervous about going there after
A link to Travel Notes about our recent trip to Egypt with stopovers in Athens and Vienna is at the end of this article. Two days after getting home from Europe, Jeremy is halfway over his jetlag. Now instead of
This is a special abridged edition of Global Thoughts coming just before the elections. When was the last time a call-center or counter person told you that their systems were working just fine that day? I am being told that
This posting is not as long as it seems – it’s actually pretty short on the global stuff. Most of it is trip notes from an August trip to Brazil and Argentina, and then a September trip to Lithuania, Latvia
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