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Day 8: Vienna in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
This was our full day in Vienna. We signed up for a longer version of the tour we did on our honeymoon. Our group was small because it costs extra, with only 7 people, which made it easy to hop o...
Day 7: Krems in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
Today was a visit to Krems in the afternoon. But before that, we woke up to the ship entering the Melk Lock and the sight of Melk Abbey in the distance. After breakfast I went to the very front o...
Day 6: Salzburg in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
Today I learned that Salzburg is named after its salt mine and castle, not because it is a hill with salt in it, and that I’d been misspelling it my whole life. We woke up early in the morning, ...
Day 5: Regensburg in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
Today was the first excursion with the cruise proper, and I was struck again by how large the Viking ship is. Shipping off 200 people (actually 180, since the ship is only sailing at 90% capacity...
Day 4: Prague/Passau in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
This was a transit day. We were to take the bus from Prague to Passau in the afternoon to board the ship, so we had a free morning. We had breakfast and checked out by 9:30, and spent 2 hours wal...
Day 3: Hradec Kralove and Kutna Hora in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
On my birthday we hired a private guide to take us to Hradec Kralove and Kutna Hora. We headed out at 8, arrived at 9:30, and were handed off to a special guide from Petrof for our own private to...
Day 2: Prague in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
This was our first full day in Prague. It started at 8am with a city walking tour. We had a very good guide - well paced, informative, engaging, and entertaining. We got to the Jewish quarter fir...
Day 1: Prague in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
It was 12.30 local time when we landed. Viking has people greeting us and herding us into a bus. It was a smooth transfer. Our hotel was right by the Vltava, but when we got to it, it was about 2...
Day 0: New York in Prague and the Danube Travel Log
We were supposed to go on a red-eye flight at 8:30pm. 8 hours flight + 6 hours time difference would put us in Prague at 10:30am the next day. We took an Uber to our train station and took the LI...
Rough Shots in Trichotomy
Move-blocked I had a meeting with the hiring manager and tech lead of the education team a few weeks ago. I met with the manager first and made it sound like it was going to be a boring job in t...
Land of the Fat Dumb and Lazy in Trichotomy
Money matters I finally heard from the education group at work, and that they got approval for a headcount. The manager said she would ping me when the opening is posted, so I am cautiously opti...
These times in Trichotomy
Nice while it lasted I heard from the Covid response team from work at the end of last week, so this week I’m allowed back to work. Even though for the most part I am still having virtual meetin...
Just Like a Cold in Trichotomy
Inevitable Well, it was going to happen some time. I performed with my amateure group two weeks ago (they were short of performers), and had dinner with a few friends afterwards. I suspect that...
The Ridiculous, the Profound, and the Tacky in Trichotomy
Kind of back to work Starting from April, we had to physically go back to work for 3 days a week, but I took last week off, and took one day off the week before that, so I have spent a total of ...
On The Move in Trichotomy
Um… where’s everybody? Two years after the pandemic the office is slowly returning to normal. My office is going back to part time in-person next month, and March would be a “transition” period ...
And the winner is... in Trichotomy
Slow Progress It will have been 2 years of lockdown by next week. The two years passed by like a blink, since every day is so monotonous and there is nothing to really mark the passage of time. ...
Not My Problem in Trichotomy
The Nor'easter We got snow for about 12 hours straight, and ended up with about a foot on the driveway. But it wasn’t too bad to dig out since the snow wasn’t packed in. It only took ~2 hours fo...
Better Than Nothing in Trichotomy
Chasing a lost cause I started feeling stuffy down my chest on Friday, and stayed on the sofa for the whole day yesterday watching, amongst other things, FA Cup Match Of The Day and re-run of th...
Year-End Survey of 2021 in Trichotomy
1. What did you do in 2021 that you’d never done before? Bake 2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? No resolutions 3. Did anyone close to you give bir...
Train Wrecks in Trichotomy
Derailed Holiday Plans I’m in Binghamton now at my in-laws again, for Christmas this time. Normally my brother-in-law would visit as well, but it looks like he and his wife are not coming becaus...
Thanksgiving Break in Trichotomy
Reminder of abnormalcy We just came back from upstate visiting La Professeure’s parents for Thanksgiving. It is nice to spend holidays with family again. And we went there a day early - stayed T...
Plan-Making Plans in Trichotomy
Middle management Two weeks I gave a presentation on the design of our project. It was well received, but the implementation is going to take over a year to finish. The managers want this implem...
Where No One has Gone before in Trichotomy
Cabin Fever It’s been 2 weeks since coming back from Ticonderoga. It is a small town. There’s one Walmart, one Dunkin Donut, and one McDonalds, and that’s it. The rest are just lake houses, farm...
Land of the Free in Trichotomy
Vacation at Ticonderoga We are at Ticonderoga now for a vacation. La Professeure’s college roommate invited us to her father-in-law’s lakehouse on Lake George. It’s a nice little cottage, and th...
Now That We can be Present, Let's Not in Trichotomy
Take twos It’s been almost 2 1/2 months since I have been fully vaccinated and we’ve done one round of in-person visits with friends. Now, the second rounds have started. A couple of weeks ago ...
