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Somehow, I haven't come across this before, but now I am a believer. Just watch the video then come back here and tell me what you thought. http://wherethehellismatt.com/videos.shtml?fbid=YDmiG I am torn between laugher and crying. It is pretty incredible
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Now that I am home, I can say that I enjoyed the trip, even though there were moments when I wasn't so sure about it all. The return trip was fairly uneventful, but I did get the pleasure of an extra customs search at Detroit Metro upon returning.
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Today we were going to meet up early and head to the Louvre, but I overslept (shocking!). Still we left close to 9 AM, and took the metro to the musée du Louvre . Initially, intimidating. It is just huge. We decided to try to get to the Mona Lisa
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Today, we tried our best to wrap everything up at the customer site, and I think we are leaving things as solid as we can. Some things didn't work out the way we'd hoped, but we accomplished what we set out to do. Now it is up to the customer
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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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I travel a little here and there for work, but not too much. In all the trips I have taken, only twice have I flown to and from somewhere within a 24-hour period (Detroit to White Plains, NY and back in a day, and Detroit to Laguardia driving just into
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I couldn't think of a good post title, so I borrowed one from Bob Marley. A few notes of recent activity... Last week, while Jodi and the kids were in Traverse City, I ran coax and telephone wires to our master bedroom so that we could move the baby
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This past weekend we spent some time in Grand Rapids so I could hang out with some college buddies. Friday night, we met up at McFadden's downtown and proceeded to the Breakroom to see Stickerblister rock out for a bit. Whit, Leb, Rexrode and myself
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After a dinner with some friends a while back, we decided that the two families should try a camping trip to one of the campgrounds on Lake Michigan (after Jodi and I extolled the virtues of our favorite campground -- Lundington State Park). Fast forward
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I have always been enamoured with the idea of traveling with only my power to transport myself. Time and other priorities have gotten me away from some of my favorite things to do when I was much younger (running and bicycling). When I was high-school
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We returned today from our holiday tour of the state of Michigan. It is always nice to see family and enjoy the holidays, but it is tiring and the kids get all out of whack. Now we need a vacation . We spent a couple of days at Jodi's parents'
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