Halloween is my favorite holiday, and one of the hardest parts of living outside of the United States is that Halloween just isn’t such a big deal in other places. Granted, it’s a ridiculously silly holiday, but that’s what I like about it! For Halloween, there’s no such thing as “over the top,” and the [...]
I was in London last week for a conference with work, and on the trip back, I made Torbjørn give me the window seat. We were flying out of London City Airport, which was rather interesting because you fly very low over London (perhaps to stay out of the higher airspace used by Heathrow and Gatwick?) [...]
During our company’s London conference, they ran out of space at the Four Seasons, so we developers got bumped over to the Tower Hotel. We may not have been in the middle of the conference activity, but the view wasn’t bad! And it was a quick trip back to Canary Wharf on the water taxi. I [...]
My talented beta tester Redfish has just informed me that my oh-so-wonderful verification gadget on the comment form was keeping her from replying to my oh-so-witty blog posts. I wondered why I hadn’t been getting any comments lately. I knew it couldn’t be because my friends and family didn’t find my brilliant posts worth commenting [...]
This post is long overdue, but I guess it’s given me some time to reflect. And to calm down! The week after I got back from Paris, I finally had my appointment with the ear specialist in the National Healthcare system. I don’t think he sees many foreigners who haven’t been around long enough to [...]