The have arrested the first looters in Galveston who were breaking into houses that have been boarded up in Galveston. One guy who is staying on the island said one reason he wasn’t leaving is because of the looters. He’s keepign an eye on his property and that of friends. He said Weds. night he [...]

As of yesterday they think that Rita is moving east. If that holds she’ll make landfall in Chambers County instead of Galveston. We’ll still get a significant storm surge in Galveston Bay, Clear Lake and the ship channel. That’s the good news. The bad news for us is that she is slowing down.
The slower [...]

hurricane preparations

A fairly early start to finish sorting what will stay with Steve for his trip up to Aberdeen to teach a class and meet with a few clients and what will go home with us. Took a shuttle service out to Heathrow followed by all the joy of getting home. The boys and I said [...]

With all the walking yesterday I was not up to much today. Steve and the boys planned to visit the Tower of London and Tower Bridge then go to te Science Museum. Turned out they spent over 5 hours at the Tower and they never made it to the museum. I met them at Tower [...]

The boys of course wanted to ride the London Eye. Since I’ve already been upon it I decided to save the £12.50 and have a decent coffee (the hotel coffee is vile) at the cafe there while Steve and the boys went up. The day was nice and sunny but the wind on the [...]

I met with Julie Ray. the Microsoft EUMA MVP lead. We had a nice coffee and pastry before going up to the Microsoft office. Quite a nice view she has even if she doesn’t have a private office, Julie said when the Eiffel Tower has 3 cycles of its lights she knows [...]

After spending most of the day doing homework and lunch at the mall near La Defenseé we went to Charles de Gaulle – Etoile for dinner. That’s where I had more escargot and duck in a slightly was slightly sweet sauce but not overpoweringly sweet. it had very a good flavor. I gave each [...]

Our next destination was without Steve. After a morning doing homework we hopped on the metro for Sacré Coeur. Once there we rode the funicular to the top of Montmartre where it sits. I found it a bit annoying that it took a full metro ticket each for the 30 second ride but my joints [...]

We continued catch-up in the morning. I strolled down to do a bit more grocery shopping including beer. While there I had a nice quite solitary breakfast of cafe a last and pain au chocolat. Around 11 we hopped on the metro and headed for the Louvre. Before entering we had crepes for [...]