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Last weekend we went back to Vienna, just because we could. I love how close it is and it doesn’t take a major production to go, we can just decide that morning.
First of all, there are about a bazillion museums in Vienna. The Technical Museum and House of Music were the first on our list of museums to visit. It took a little longer getting there, and the technical museum is gigantic, so we didn’t have time to go to the House of Music. Next time.
Last time we left off with me holding the wrong credit card to get into my calculator device, thus allowing me to use internet banking.
Last weekend we went to Budapest, Hungary. It’s a 2.5 hour train ride so we decided to stay overnight. We left early Saturday morning (nothing says Trip like the alarm NOT going off at 4am when you have to leave by 5) on the 6am train. I was a little anxious about Skye and the train ride, but she did great on the way down. On the way home, though, she was a lot more restless and we had our stuff piled all over our cabin trying to keep her happy and entertained. Seriously, we had a cabin to ourselves, until the last 30 seconds a single guy comes in with a reservation (since it was a holiday weekend). Poor bloke.
So my family sent some awesome belated gifts for Skye’s birthday. These are all of the pics we could get of her doing a fashion show of her cute new clothes before she got ornery (or they were blurry because she doesn’t hold still even for a second). Thanks again, the dog onesies were awesome (they sent onesies with Sam, Moxi, Kona, Lucy and Cooper on each). Plus the way cute jacket and hat, it was all a really pleasant surprise. Thanks again! We’ll try to get more pics of her in the rest soon.
A big fat Congratulations to my boy Josh and his wife Kati who just had their first child, Reese Daniel Farrer who was born at 5:58a MDT. He weighed in at barely under 7 lbs. and 20 in. long. We hear that both mom and baby are doing great. So Congratulations to both Josh and Kati, and welcome to Earth, Reese, there’s beer in the fridge.
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chelsea wanted a new phone, and was looking at the BlackBerry, and because Verizon has a propensity for handicapping phones, I didn’t want to buy a BlackBerry from them. so we switched to T-Mobile, but this required us to sign a new 2-year contract, which is fine, but then we moved to Slovakia, and they don’t have service here. so we called up T-Mobile after we arrived and they said it’s fine, just get them proof that we are in fact living overseas and they’ll remove the $400 early cancellation fee.
so there is a species of bird that lives here that has a song like I’ve never heard before. the song is not the most amazing song I’ve ever heard (although it is really cool, and I love listening to it while I work), but what is amazing is that it sings mostly in the evenings, and I’ve heard several of the same species of bird in different areas of town, and while I can tell that it’s the same bird, the songs are vastly different (in one area, the song could have been recorded and used as 8-bit video game sound effects, it was amazing the types of noises coming out of this bird), and even from the same bird, the songs are somewhat similar (in that songs sung by the same singer are similar), but every time it sings, it’s a new song.
here are some videos of the bird… Continue reading “identification”
so unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that we’ve moved to Slovakia. during the move, I was unable and unwilling to pack my computer up to bring with us. it was just too large to be feasible. the next best thing was to backup my digital life onto an external hard drive–which chelsea so conveniently gave me for christmas–and bring that with us instead. one problem with this is that, as with every other time that I had to wipe my hard drive, I would be forced to re-import my entire iTunes library into iTunes, and if you’ve ever tried to import an iTunes library, it’s better than starting from scratch, but it sucks. playlists don’t sync properly, especially if they are based on other playlists. and the add date for all your songs becomes the same date, which I use in many of my playlists (recently added, etc.) but I think I found a solution to my problems…
We were going to go to Budapest, Hungary this weekend and visit one of their famous mineral baths/swimming areas. But the forecast said it was going to rain, so we decided not to go. As you can see from the pics, it was sunny and 70, just like it’s been for the last several weeks. So we went strolling around Bratislava instead.
This is Bratislava Castle. Not the most spectacular castle, especially under construction, but it’s right down the street from our house, so we went. It’s very old (~3500BC, prolly why it’s not very pleasing to the eye), whomever has conquered Europe, held this castle because of the strategic location, the middle of Europe. You can see to Austria, maybe Hungary and the Danube from the vantage point on top of the hill. After our castle visit, we went to historic old town and had some lunch followed by the park.
