We have a guest in our office...

Excerpt from an interoffice email received today...
"A friend of mine from Spain, Amaya (last name redacted),is in town for the next couple of weeks..."
Anybody have any ideas about what we might do to benefit from having an English-speaking native of Spain sort of available to me? Seems like I could get perspective on a few things about life in Spain, but I probably ought to start any dialog with an appropriately professional degree of caution.

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For my broadband friends

Lesse...two pieces of news.
I mopped the upstairs bathroom last night.
Maybe that doesn't sound like much (unless you've seen it, then you probably get the idea), but...I've been living here for 15 months, and that was the first time I had ever mopped it. So I had the "quantity of filth" component of difficulty way up there.Further, there is a lot of *stuff* in there, and I had to drag it all out for the job. Difficulty component 2 also high.
But I got it done, and it felt good. I was all shweaty.
Wonder when that will happen again.
The other news, next Thursday morning I'm scheduled for outpatient surgery. I have a small umbilical hernia.
That is all.

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Winding Down

It's all over but the shouting. We are just hanging out here at the crib. OML will be heading to KOF-town about noon tomorrow. I'll drop him at the airport on my way to work.

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Family moments

I'm listening to my daughter and my younger brother in the family room the "TV room", voice training a robotic dog that has been collecting dust for months (like much of what I own).

My brother has been in Europe for what seemed like forever, but has actually been...almost three years? It's really great to have him back, if just for a short while. He will return to Germany on September 11, having chosen the date only partly in irony.

It has been a fun day and a half so far - he has her holding out her hand straight before her, straight and verticle, fingers pointed toward you, saying "trial lawyers!!!", even after having protested that our doing this was becoming quite annoying. She uses her best Georgia accent, and ends up sounding not like Zell (who, it turns out, wasn't actually the source of that particular tirade at the convention, but nevermind the convolution), but rather like the John Turturo character in "Secret Window". That's actually an observation that *she* made, when she followed a hilarious "trial lawyers!!!" with a comparable "you stole my story!"

Good times, good times.

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