Susie's Meanderings

Chasing Miles

Well, my calendar is once again updated, now that I have something interesting to put on it. It's back to Europe for me next week, mostly business, but I get to tuck in a weekend in Paris with my family, and an evening in Copenhagen with my brother, and maybe a Saturday in Brighton with my friends. I must say, Elite status comes a lot faster when I'm traveling to Europe every month than when I'm just hopping around the states every week. After this trip, I should already be first tier with United. And to think I almost had them book me on my former favorite, American. United even found my reservation for me. How exciting is that?

Tulips!

Here they are, at long last.

No excuse

I'm in the process of uploading the long since promised tulip pictures. The problem in the end, is that they were on my laptop, which never even gets turned on anymore while I'm at home, since, until 9:30 this evening, I only had a single DSL connection, and the effort of plugging and unplugging my various computers to upload a few pictures was just too great. Today, however, glory be, I found a wireless linksys router for an amount I was willing to pay for it, and said goodbye to my days of tripping over the 40 foot phone cord that has been strung across my living room. It was touch and go for a while, since my cable modem and router shared an ip address, and so there was some conflict apparently as to who my computer was speaking to. That and it needed a firmware upgrade, and I had to clone the MAC address of my PC etc etc, so it was a good four hours of troubleshooting to set up my "one button, easy touch, no set up " linksys router, and I suspect without all the good IP Address and Subnetting training I received from Marr at BMGF, I'd have long since flung the router against the wall . Now, however, I have that satisfied feeling of having wrestled a thorny problem to the ground without, I might add, any assistance from tech support. (execpt what I found online). It's good, because the tech support guys at work have started talking to me like I might not understand words of more than one syllable, and they use that excessively patient tone of voice...so I was wondering if my skills were really dwindling....Anyway, tulip pics to follow soon.

Newest Member of the Household

At the shelter they told me, "This is an inside cat, he's never shown any interest in going outside at all." I'd post a better picture, but he won't look away from the window. Unless he's crying and trotting hopefully to the door. But he's a gadget freak just like me. The only thing that got him to come out from under the couch on the first day was the sound of me playing with the self cleaning litter box.

Home again home again

Well, I was enjoying a perfectly nice business trip in Europe (and I have some really amazing pictures of tulips from Holland, when I can manage to get them transferred on to the right computer) when they called us and told us to come home. The timing was perfect, since I was about to start the "new country every day" part of my itinerary, and wasn't looking forward to it. So, a little jet lagged and nonplussed, I am back at home. Pictures soon.