Last week was the first week in a while that I needed to travel somewhere for work. I’ve not been on the road since I got back from Brazil (I’m not counting my 18hr stay in London earlier this month), and it sure has been nice. I was looking at travel through the eyes of…

Well it has been a few days since I posted. Mainly because during the work week, we don’t get to do much sight seeing. In fact, we’ve easily been pulling 12 hour days. Chris made it OK. There was a snafu in her flight arriving at Porto Alegre, and I did not get the correct…

Yeah, I know I just posted about 5 hours ago, but we just returned to the hotel from our late morning stroll. Well, I say stroll, but it was a haul. I was trying to figure out the distance, but the map that we have does not have any way to determine that. James &…

We had an action packed day yesterday. So action packed, in fact, that we required a break about mid day to recover! We’ve been trying to find things to do locally, and prepare for next weekend when Chris arrives. So again, we headed off to Shopping Total. It’s a mall that is close-by (bout a…

James has posted several tips for traveling in Brazil. Oh, and yes, we actually learned these things during the time we spent here in Porto Alegre!

Last night was a little bit later for us than usual. We ate a late dinner that consisted of appetizers. We did not need much food after the big lunch we had. After that, we waited for one of our new Brazilian friends, Marco, to pick us up at the hotel for a night out.…

I tell you, our biggest challenge here is definitely the language. Many say that Portuguese is similar to Spanish; and in some repsects it is. But pronounciation has elements of French, English and also some Eastern Europe languages. Listening to the soft “R” has brought me back to my French days, and in fact, I…

So about 5:35 this am we hear this BOOMING crack of thunder. Lightning brightens up the room, and the sound wakes me up out of a nice dream (you know, dreaming of beer). Was one of those times that you shoot straight up in bed after hearing the noise. I calmly collected myself, then laid…

Hey kids… I’ve been in Brazil for nearly 3 days now. It was a fun adventure getting here! We took a flight from DFW to Sao Paulo (GRU) on Sunday night. While at the airport, we learned that the aircraft had a maintenance issue, so we would be delayed. Once the plane showed up at…

Well, you know, there are days where I think that I should post something every day. Even if it is a quick link somewhere. Ideally, I’d like to post a few paragraphs every day to get more experience writing. Do I want to be a writer? No. But I do want to be able to…

Well, it DID rain today, but the weather page was reporting a steady and slow rain for several hours. Oops… Brando screwed that one up. Somehow, I have been graphing and displaying all this time an artificially calculated rain rate. The guy who originally wrote the scripts did some stuff on rain rates that worked…

It sure can’t get here quick enough. Two more weeks of work and we are outtie! Really looking forward to getting away. That 9am beer on the beach will be hard to get over. I’m headed to a client site right after vacation, so I hope they don’t look alarmed when they see a Shiner…

Well folks, it’s been quite some time since I blogged. Why? Mainly cause I’ve not been motivated lately. Been super busy with work, wrapping up the summer term at UD. Travel has been a bear! Honestly, I think Chris has more updates about me than I have had lately. The only exception to that, of…

Well, unfortunately, it seems like I have reduced my postings to once a month, and that’s not a good. Last semester was very taxing on my time. I took over a new class and there was much to be done in that class. Honestly, I was not prepared for the level of work it required.…

This year, my lovely wife Christine is participating in a very special event called the Breast Cancer 3-Day. She will walk 60 miles over the course of three days with thousands of other women and men. The net proceeds will support breast cancer research, education, screening and treatment through the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer…

Man, the End of Quarter song and dance that we do four times a year is a beating. We’re done with it now, and all relieved. Guess I can post now huh? So we just got back from Chicago where Chris & I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. Wow! Chris posted the pictures here. Big…

So far (knock on wood), the weather has been a non-event. We’ll take it for sure. To be safe, I’ll be unplugging my Comet Antenna anyway. Speaking of comets, anyone viewed Pojmanski? As I’m writing, looks like Throckmorton county is under the gun. 2 mesocyclones are in the county. It looks like this will all…

Was going through some salvaged posts from “Days of Old” and just decided to end those Wow, I’m so glad that my posts are substantive now (hah!!). So today was a longer day. Spent the first four hours catching up on work, then spent the next 4 working on the stuff I couldn’t while catching…

Yeah, been super busy. We’ve got a ton of bigtime work projects going on, I’ve got my 2 classes to teach, and of course the wife and kiddo to keep me on my toes the rest of the time. Next week I’m out to Arkansas for the week, so look for lots of Mobile Blog…

Yeah, supposed to be on PTO and I’m on it for the most part. Just kinda crazy how you plan it and then you sill have other things you need to do. Practicing for Super Bowl, so I’ve got 3 racks of ribs on the smoker right now. We have to be VERY careful around…