February 2008 - Posts
Today was another longish day, but we have made progress and things seem to be moving forward in a positive manner on the work front, so that is allowing to relax some. Tonight, everyone involved in the project walked to the café across the street
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Today, the customer we've been working with took us to a little restaurant in the area where we're working (Pantin), and we chatted about camping and hiking in America. It is pretty neat to talk to people here and learn of their impressions of
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Today, we worked a little later (we just lunched in the ‘canteen’ at the customer building), so we got a late start exploring. We asked the hotel staff member at the counter (no concierge at this hotel) for some areas to check out for good
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We were treated to lunch by the folks in the Paris (Garches) office, at a little Italian restaurant near the office. Quite good, but not remarkably different from what we have at nice Italian restaurants in America. After working the afternoon, however,
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I am on a business trip to Paris, France to work with a customer. I have been trying to make notes of our non-work activities for my own benefit, and decided to post it here... We landed at Charles De Gaulle airport around 11:15 or so, and Thierry met
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Joshua wrote me an inspiring note on my lunch bag today. Note the "Go Dad Go" in green at the bottom. Just makes you want to go out and conquer the world. If you don't have kids, this is a reference to the the NickJrTV show Diego , which
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Generally speaking, I don't have too many issues with my back, but occasionally (usually when I do something stupid) I'll 'hurt' it in some way, then pay the price for a time after. Well, apparently last week I did just that, and although
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I have been delinquent in posting again. The post-holiday blahs are here and I am in full-on SAD mode . I love the snow, but I miss the sunshine. The last two weeks I have been stressed, cranky, and on a couple of occasions just plain depressed. I find
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