Ann’s mom Sabine and her boyfriend Rik are visiting for the first time! We are very glad to host them, but we have to keep Sabine out of the kitchen because she has a nasty habit of breaking all our stuff.
Monthly Archive: February 2005
Feb
27
Feb
25
Third Trip Home
My second whirlwind trip home. Only this time I didn’t get to spend as much time in Princeton as last time. And I didn’t get to eat ANY Indian food! I came into Newark on Monday, arriving one day after the snow, just like last time. We haven’t hardly seen any snow at all in …
Feb
20
Sony Shout-out
I would just like to send a shout-out to Sony, the makers of the Micro Vault USB memory stick. Thank god that they designed that thing to go through a washing machine cycle and still operate. Without corrupting any of the files or damaging the memory stick in any way. Truly, amazing foresight on their …
Feb
20
The Diamond Games
This weekend Ann and I decided to go on a spontaneous trip to Antwerp to go see the women’s finals of the Diamond Games featuring Venus Williams and some French chick I had never heard of (Amelie Mauresmo). We arrived Saturday night, tired and hungry, and walked to the hotel, which did nothing but inflame …
Feb
14
Ken, Brian, and a Night at Holland Casino
It wasn’t easy at first. Ken and I got to the Holland Casino at about 8:15. We rushed through the bag check and bounded up the stairs to get on the list for a Hold ‘Em table (correction: THE Hold ‘Em table) only to find the single 10-20 table in all of Amsterdam, full. In …
Feb
06
pre-Superbowl Jitters2/8/2005 05:53:37 AM
So I’m trying to occupy the time until Superbowl XXXIX. Four hours to go. It will be 12:30am here when I start watching, but I started conditioning myself to watch the whole thing by staying up last night until 3am watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. As much as I appreciate brilliant filmmaking, that movie is …
Feb
04
The Little Differences 2
The popcorn in the movie theaters here is coated with sugar instead of salt and butter. I have to say, I really like it. It’s a really light coating, just enough to give you the idea and to make you want more. Come to think of it, they may mix heroin in there too… Also, …
Feb
04
After Exams Dinner
I know, I know, this is only my second contribution to our blog…After someone called me a slacker (you know who you are), I decided that it was time to start cranking out another contribution. So I will tell you how the future America specialists celebrated the end of their first exam session. Our last …