I take back what I said about it never snowing in the Netherlands. I take it back because I am sitting on a train instead of a plane. My flight from Frankfurt back to Amsterdam was cancelled because of a snowstorm that was working its way across “the Continentâ€. I Read more…
The last time I saw Nieves was almost four years ago. She came for the US wedding of our friends Ken and Sole, which was in the summer of 2001. Nieves was one of the au pair crop that Ken and I, and various other Princeton locals hit on. I Read more…
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. 😉
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 Read more…
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. Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
I am so goddamned happy I don’t have to take New Jersey transit any more. I will never do it again in my life. Ever. After a hectic entry into New York, brief stop by the office, then the hotel to check in and drop off my bag, I took Read more…