We’re here, and so far, everything’s gone just fine!The flights over passed the test for successful travel these days: they were uneventful. I know that’s a rather low bar to success, but given the quality of air travel these days, it works. Both flights were on time, all our bags arrived with us; that’s success!We did have one little last...
(Full post)Hard to believe, but after twenty years, Laurie retired last Monday. Tuesday she was pretty exhausted, both physically - from cleaning out her desk - and emotionally - from having everyone in the library, co-workers and patrons, come to say good-bye to her. It will take her some getting used to it, certainly. We were talking about doing something and...
(Full post)I was talking to a fellow today and he said that he and his wife were planning a trip to Paris for 2014. He asked me, after hearing that we’d been there quite a few times, if \$1,000 per day was enough for Paris. He’d heard that it “…was expensive” there. I laughed and told him I though they could...
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