'the big move' Category
house!
our counteroffer was accepted yesterday, so I guess we have a house! We won’t close on it until next month, though. We’re still keeping the lake house, Rowell, and plan to go there on weekends, so we wanted something nice but small here. This one is a new townhouse; two bedrooms and a den. So […]
getting settled
We arrived in Oregon last Friday, and I’m liking Hillsboro so far; there’s a nice mall 5 minutes walk from our apartment and all the supermarkets and big-box stores anyone could want, but you can be driving beside planted fields in about ten minutes. There are just lots of things happening to us or that […]
IPod’s shuffle is not being helpful!
The book I was listening(1) to finished while I was 5km into through today’s 10km workout, so I decided to listen to music instead of starting a new audiobook. I set my iPod to random shuffle. Today’s workout was 1km warmup, then 3 sets of 1km hard, 2 km easy. (“Hard” is meant to be […]
planning for our return
it feels very real now, Things we’ve done to prepare for going home, so far: Turned in my resignation letter, with some weasel wording because I may not be leaving the company Requested a meeting with HR (Ted) to talk about repatriation Talked to the bank about how to close our accounts remotely (we need […]
home again, and back into future planning
The account in words of our trip to New York, Allentown, and Philadelphia is posted here; I don’t have pictures up yet. Short version: Because Ted now has Diamond status and because the flights were very crowded because Dutch kids were on Fall vacation, we got upgraded to business class both ways. It’s so much […]
bye!
It’s kind of a sad day today; for all I know this could be my last day here (Taipei and Linkou, Taiwan) ever. It’s not unlikely I’ll have business trips back to Taiwan but they could be to another city. Ted will definitely be back, probably every 6-8 weeks, but this is his last day […]
some observations from Taiwan and a couple short reviews
Man, it’s nice to be able to go to bed with my husband every night, and to know that isn’t going to end at the end of this week!!! (Italics and exclamation points fully justified here.) It’s been kind of weird to be sitting at my old desk, good to see my old co-workers, and […]
in Taipei
The long trip to Taiwan went unexpectedly qiuckly, even including the four trains to get there. I think I’ve gotten to the point where I can just step back inside my head and let it all wash over me, and then zone out further once saely on the plane. There was a tiny hiccup at […]
photos!
I was right – it’s not really possible to take great crowd photos if you can’t get up above them. But I had to at least try. This is just the queue for an ATM – a very uniformly-colored queue. Here’s the crowd in the market square. As you can see, there is a wide […]
Liveblogging the World Cup
Might as well, it’s not like I’ll want or be able to do anything *else* tonight! Though some poor football fan is going to end up here via Google and be terribly disappointed. Not in South Africa, sorry. Also, I’ll be duplicating this on the travel blog – I don’t know if anyone actually reads […]