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The Danish, The Darkness, and The Dork
I realized only yesterday that my last two blog posts were never published. So instead of posting them, I’ll condense them into this one and get all caught up.
July 18-23: Spent the week in San Jose. If you want to know what happened on the trip, just read any one of my other San Jose trip reports. Same stuff. EXCEPT for the fact that I took the red-eye back on Friday night, so that I could catch Max’s wedding on the 23rd. It was a garden style wedding down in Rhode Island, right on the water. I felt like I fell out of an Ambercrombie ad. It was like being at the Kennedy compound, without all the bleeding hearts.
August 1-5: Copenhagen, Denmark. This was my first trip to Denmark, and unfortunately, due to business, I didn’t have a lot of time to sight-see. However, I never felt more unattractive then when I was walking among the Danish. These folks (men and women) are possibly the most beautiful people I have ever seen. Add to that the fact that they all wear Puma gear. Mrs Nerd was pleased to hear it.
It only took me the full week to realize that “Ny-” is actually pronouced “Noo-” and not “Nee-” (insert Holy Grail joke here). Lots of Danes laughed at me for that one.
I stayed on Nyhaven (NOO-howen) which is smack dab in the touristy center, but it was still beautiful. I found myself sitting at the outdoor cafes for hours drinking Tuborg beer and watching folks. Ah, summer in Europe…it is ze best!
Time to pull out the Rosetta Stone language software and get my Danish on.
(news flash: No, Cisco is not buying Nokia, so stop asking)
Yesterday I realized that it’s good to have an ark ready in the backyard, you know, just in case. We got 3 inches of rain in about 4 hours, lost our power for 12 hours, and thought the massive tree above our house was going to get hit by lightning and crush our living room. A home 4 streets over got hit. Not to get off the subject here, but do you think that only dumb people live in houses that get struck by some act of God, or do you think there is a band of folks that just appear at these catastrophes so they can be interviewd by the news? Why can’t people with decent oratorical skills ever be interviewed by the local news? It’s always “Yeah, it was like wickid dahk, and then we saw like a big blue light, and my Ma was like OH MY GAWD, and then we were like Somethin Musta Happened, so yeah, it was wickid scary.”
Wait, what?
Lastly, I succumbed to the hype and installed Mac OSX on an IBM Thinkpad, you know, just to see. I wrote all about it here, so I’ll save you some time….
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Tags: cisco, landscaping, travel
Landscaping
The landscapers just showed up (almost an hour late) and I kinda feel bad since it’s such a cruddy day outside. I met the “foreman” and he has one of those weird eyes that you’re not quite sure where it’s looking so you get drawn to it and lose track of what your saying as you stare at it trying to figure out where the hell he’s looking. Nice enough guy. He didn’t even balk when I asked him to move the 7 4-ton boulders in the backyard.
Now it’s just a matter of making sure they get this stuff done. Before and after photos ala HGTV coming soon.
Tags: landscaping