A few days of vacation

I just got back from a business trip to central Georgia, just south of Macon. The conference I attended was the Warner-Robins Requirements Symposium, an event designed to encourage businesses to learn about the US Air Force's upcoming business opportunities and to then submit proposals or quotes in response to published requirements. The event was much better than it was last year. The various categorical sessions I attended contained usable information, such as what the government is planning to do, what kind of contracts, what kind of work, in the near and not so near term. My business-related travel seemed to ramp up a bit in the fall after a nice lull in the summer. I think I have one more trip this year, a week in northeastern Michigan, helping to prove a device to measure thrust works reliably and accurately.

But this next week I have three days of vacation and a couple days of holiday to enjoy. So my lovely wife and I will get at a task we have purposely left undone since moving to Texas, which is to go through some boxes of holiday-related stuff we have been taking with us through several moves. It will be interesting to uncover things we haven't seen for years, and recall the memories associated with holidays past. Some of it, I'm sure, will be worse for wear, but I'm looking forward to the few gems that will be proudly displayed once again.

I think we may also make a day trip or two, and visit some friends who live a few hours away. I'll post again next week, and let you know how it went.

What's been happening...

Since my last post, we have stayed pretty busy. My mother-in-law came to spend a week with us from Milwaukee along with her sister and niece from Italy. We had a great time showing them around the Houston area, and even took an overnight to San Antonio. The Italians were actually familiar with the Alamo, and Davy Crockett, probably from earl '60's TV.

Shortly after they went back to Milwaukee, I had a business trip to Orlando, for the NBAA convention. (National Business Aviation Ass'n) And within a few days of that, I had a week long trip to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. It was my first visit to Malaysia, and I was very pleasantly surprised with how cosmopolitan the city was. The Petronas Towers at night are very dramatic, rivaling the spectacle of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I had been to Singapore before, but it too is a very cosmopolitan city. Lots of shopping, traffic, and many peoples from all over the world living and working together in apparent harmony. I am not saying it is perfect, but rather, that people can actually get along with each other, enjoy each other, in close quarters.

Since then, it has been back to the ordinary grind of daily work, highlighted by the fact that our house in TN looks like it has been leased by someone for year. Not as great as selling it, but after a year on the market, we are happy with this.

Today I had to change one of the rules for posting, because some jerk decided it was a good place to post Viagra ads. I edited it out, but now you will have to sign in to comment. Sorry.