Boarding my flight in Boston heading for Seattle. Get ready folks over there…. we can weep together over missed chances to got further in the play off 🙂
Workshop in Seattle
Convenership transitions are not really step functions. The effects taper off with some time constant. I am now on my trip to a workshop I had agreed on being at well before the end of the year. I have never been to Seattle but from a number of Facebook friends I know that the area is gorgeous. Maybe almost as nice as Boston. I guess the mountains are more impressive over there.
In the past I have been several times in Vancouver which is very close and said to be quite similar. Let’s see how it is over in the west this time of a year.
My flight goes through Newark and the flight is overbooked. I am writing this all from my comfortable 10A seat using the new mobile wordpress app. They tried to rebook some people to the direct flight, but that would have brought me into Seattle later (1hr20mins) and implied also a long wait at Logan. I decided to stick with my flight…. it seems to be going fine. This week in Seattle I have to use to get ahead workwise so I can make good use of the last week with the family. It is called a workshop, so working is somehow implied. Lots of house projects lined up so good to have a free back when coming back to Boston.
Dressing the Skylight
Last weekend and this weekend I used to dress the skylight from the inside and I know now why the people we hired originally to install the skylight did not want to do it. The work is not very hard but it takes some time as the pieces have to fit and properly match up to the window on the one hand side and to the hole in the roof on the other hand side. It took,me 2 itterations to match both aspects and the product is certainly not perfect but it does not look terrible either. I am writing this while I am waiting for my flight to leave to Seattle and cannot add the picture but I will do that later. Some painting will still be required to make the attic look beautiful. It certainly is functional right now.
Soccer with Markus and Ivan
Today is Sunday and at noon our two oldest have their indoor soccer practice. At 11:30 I informesd our two rascals that they should start to get ready. About ten minutes later they were of course still watching/playing and I had to turn into the enforcer.
Markus gave me the usual I want to quit routine while Ivan got ready pretty calmly. Markus today was not very motivated probably based on his I did not make a goal feeling.
Here is Ivan and one of the kids from Belmont. His father plays actually on my squash team at MIT.
The practice takes 1.5 hours….. lots of time for me to grab a coffee at the vending machine, write a blog post, take some pictures and have a good conversation with my squash team mate.
Hockey Morning with Ivan
Ivan has hockey Saturday morning at 7am or 8am…. always a little discussion about who goes with him because that event is not a family event like most other sports events we have on the weekend. It is just too painful to get us and the crew moving and sometimes a longer sleep into the morning hours is quite wonderful.
Today, when I got up to tell Ivan it was time to get ready the kids were of course all up already. Blake for the first time on his own decided to sleep with Gisele and the were already awake and had moved to his bed watching a movie on their little DVD player. Blake explained things to Gisele. They are a great couple these days. Ivan interrupted his reading and started to put on his gear while I added 15 minutes of dosing on the bed….. when I came down it was nicely quiet in the house everybody still happily minding their business, Ivan back to his book completely dressed. I just had to top it up by brushing the long and scruffy hair of our ‘ranger’ (his hockey team).
Driving up to the rink is a snap and after entering, there are the busy hockey parents and players lots of people we know: fun encounters, tying skates, chatting, helping with helmet and gloves, coffee and off onto the ice for the rangers and quiet watching for the parents.
Squash Match versus Harvard coming up
We will play the ‘havaad’ club of Boston tonight. I am interested to see how the game goes. I am playing on 2…. not my usual spot but I am willing to take the challenge.
35 minutes later: And I got whipped pretty bad. The courts here are slow, my strings were close to breaking, I was not well warmed up….. 🙂
I need to exercise more and play with more different and better players than myself. Physical fitness was clearly not the issue.
WordPress Mobile App Installed on my Phone
Location of first mobile wordpress post.
Woooohooo…. this is my first post from my phone. If this is working well enough be prepared to see much more blogging from me soon. Well I will have to edit each post on a proper computer it seems because my spelling sucks on the mobile phone even more than on the desktop computer.
This is where I am right now…. 🙂 …. Waiting at the elevator which is right beside the womens’ rest room. Proof of the mobility.
New sink
New sink…. almost as good as having a new bathroom.
Wall in white
Ready for Christmas ….
Preparing for Christmas
