Yesterday I went out with my fancy French friends to brunch around 3pm. Brunch, by the way, consists of a meat or veggie option of the same dish. My veggie version contained 2 eggs, sunny side up, 4 triangles of buttered toast, beans, crispy mushrooms, some kind of mashed potato thing, and about 10 slices of broiled cheese. It was good, but really greasy and filling. I could only eat about half. I would KILL for a pancake right now.
After brunch we went home for a little rest to get …

A little dinner and dominoes over at Mom and Dad’s tonight. We spent some time together since we won’t be seeing a lot of each other pretty soon. It was nice to just relax and chat and fix the Palm not syncing problem. What are these people going to do when I am gone? Oh, they’ll be just fine.
Dad and I went and saw the Hulk after mom went to bed, and we both agreed, it was better than expected, intense and pretty awesome. At first I …

The British are OBSESSED with the possibility of fire in a building. Obsessed! There are fire drills, fire warnings, and fire doors (oh so many fire doors). I went to a training session in Sheffield yesterday, and prior to the start of the meeting, we had to do a little fire safety review. You would think they had some kind of big fire here sometime in the past or something.
I went for the training with my colleague, Mark Russell, not to be confused with my other colleague, also named Mark …

The first 2 weeks I was here, I was really frustrated when walking during busy times. I couldn’t figure out where I was supposed to walk, and when to give way to people and when to push through them. Michael can attest that this is not my strength when it comes to driving, either, so I guess it isn’t too surprising that I struggle with walking, too. BUT, this morning I figured it out, more or less. It is nothing I can explain in words, but I feel like I …

And the way you can tell is that she created a WeeMee. I have to admit, they are pretty cute/clever. I’ll be curious to see how it plays out for them. If you want to make one, just click mine below and it will take you to the site.

My Visa application is finally in progress and my biometrics appointment is Friday. What all of that means is that it is time to really get serious about closing things out here and preparing to join Jen, who found a flat today …

There was a girl on the tube today with fake nails… on her toes. Huh.