I first arrived in the Port Authority Bus Terminal, which is arguably the worst place in New York City (or as John Oliver says, “the single worst place on planet Earth”) but just about the only way to get in or out by interstate bus, and it happens to be conveniently right across the street […]
I have two weeks off between leaving my old job and starting a new one. I could have spent this time doing many things, and the first that comes to mind is house projects. There are a few weatherization-related items that are time sensitive. I completed one of those projects, which involved some creative use […]
I’m in southern California for this long weekend – primarily to attend the wedding of an old childhood friend I haven’t seen in several years. This short trip made it somewhat easy to pack light, but it wasn’t entirely without struggle. After a painful travel experience in which Em and I were both separated from […]
I didn’t realize how much I had bonded with some people here until I had to say goodbye. Most of them I will probably never see again. Maybe I will have some email correspondence with them. A few people asked me if I had any plans to come back. I told them that I had […]
Major props to Carole Ann for recommending Museum Speelklok (the music box museum) in Utrecht. It was probably the best museum I saw on my trip, and I saw a lot of museums – thanks to the Museumkaart for making this fiscally practical. This place combined (obviously) music (including the Charleston), history, simple machines (most […]
My routine is just starting to feel like a routine, and I have exactly one week left here. I’m starting to stress about the little things I want to do before I leave. One is that I need to find some nice gifts for people here who have been key to me getting situated – […]
As soon as I was feeling not-sick enough to go on another bike adventure, I rode to Dordrecht and then on to an epic national park called de Biesbosch. I first spent an hour or two trying to get Jacques, my French road bike, to shift properly. The problem seemed to be a bent derailleur […]
Often I find myself without plans for the weekend until Saturday morning. It’s a result of starting work in the afternoon and working until about 9pm. I do this in order to have more time to overlap with my colleagues who are mostly in Boston and Providence. As a result, my Saturdays tend to be […]
For the past nine days, I have had a hacking cough that wakes me up at night. The first couple of days, it was terrible, but now it is just annoying. The downside of this, aside from just being sick, is that I have been isolating myself from my newly established daily activities. I have […]
I had heard that drum and bugle corps was a bit of a thing in the Netherlands, and upon researching show schedules, I found that the Drum Corps Netherlands championships was scheduled to take place not too far from Delft at a date within my visit. Naturally, I went with bells on (and by bells, […]