Winding down our meeting in Rome and we hear there are strikes planned for tomorrow when we fly home. ✈️
Meanwhile we fly to Rome tomorrow for two personal days followed by two meeting days. Looks like we’re going to spend two days in museums or else get wet!
We’ve spontaneously decided to fly to Minnesota for Christmas, so we’ve arranged for goose legs, red cabbage and bread dumplings to be delivered upon our arrival.
I don’t know why it took me 20 years to think of this, but with the ‘mhanson.de’ domain I can leverage my middle initial and have a scott@mhanson.de mail address and a scott.mhanson.de website.
How to get jet lag without leaving Europe: take a 2 day trip to Georgia (3 hours ahead of CET), taking a night flight there and and an early morning flight back 🥱
Flying to Georgia (the country) for a couple of days. I’ll use my German ID for the first time, as visitors arriving directly from the EU do not need a passport.
Just realized I missed my 35th Germanversary on September 1, when we first arrived in Germany to stay. Happy Germanversary to me!
Apparently Germany’s most famous ex-convict was at our restaurant, which we wouldn’t have noticed if it weren’t for the reporters chasing him
Our son flew with his girlfriend to Minnesota to meet his grandmother. I lent him a credit card to ease the rental car pickup. I see in addition to Hertz they also stopped at Dairy Queen. 🍦👍
Since all 3 of our admin staff are off today, we’ve spent 3 hours today taking care of bicycles (broken, replacement, junk)
Third night after returning from the US and waking up feeling like you got hit by a brick (in spite of melatonin) #jetlag
So yesterday I entered the EU for the first time with my German passport. The machines at Schiphol were down, and there were long lines for both EU and non-EU citizens, so it didn’t feel very special.
Not to reveal any personal family details, but after 30% funding cuts, layoffs at rural PBS stations have begun
Wife went home last week to be with her mom, so I’m finishing out Minnesota alone with my mom. Too cold at the lake, so we retreated to town. School just started, the buses gather across the street before heading on their routes.
Our hotel in Duluth is very chill. Free WiFi, complementary bike rental, and THC gummies are available in the gift shop.
