Category: Travel
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Interesting flight on Continental
Headline: Entertainment the whole way (except for the safety briefing). Last Sunday I flew from Newark back to Houston on Continental. On that flight they had the “seemingly usual” entertainment in the headrest in front of you. There were several key differences however. Entertainment the Whole Way Unlike all my other flights, I was able…
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Trick Audio TA-100 Earphones
Most of the time simplicity is better… I don’t travel as much as I used to but still like to reduce the noise in my environment. I tried many different “noise cancelling” headphones. These all used active noise cancellation. That meant: Batteries – and on long trips I needed to take spare batteries Bulky –…
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2002 Indian – What a ride
Technorati Tags: Motorcycle Last night was very interesting. Each year The Briarwood School has a fund raising event which includes silent as well as live auctions. Last night one of the auction items was a 2002 Indian. While I don’t have the actual picture, this image was the closest I could find: The color looks…
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First Day of Castles
Day 1 – Thursday – First Day of Castles Today was really the first day of vacation. Previously Karl was attending the EAGE. We made it to three different castles today – Inveraray Castle, Dunstaffnage Castle, and the Stirling Castle. And we covered about 220 miles to get it done. We started out at about…
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EAGE Day 3
Wednesday Today Karl went the the EAGE again. Lael and the boys headed for breakfast in the lobby. They had a great meal of various rolls, tea, coffee and juice. It filled them all up! Then they headed for the hugh pool in the hotel. It had a hot tub, a suana and steam room. …
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Lael and the boys arrive and catch the train to Glasglow
Tuesday This morning Karl went to the EAGE to see what was going on. Got some more detailed competitive information. Here are some pictures from the convention.. Then, Lael, Scott and Troy arrived at about 2pm today. We went to Bella Pasta for lunch and then went to the Glasgow Cathedral. “The flight…
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First day of EAGE Lael and the boys board a flight for Manchester
Monday Lael and the boys left Houston this morning to head this way and should be here tomorrow afternoon. The EAGE opened today with among other addresses, a talk by Nigel Trevin on the topic “The Stratigraphy of Whiskey”. While this “tongue in cheek” talk analyzed the location of distilleries in Scotland compared with the…
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Karl has a workshop for Risk Management
Sunday Well, straight to work… I’m glad I got a good night’s rest. Today I attended a workshop, “Exploration Risk Analysis: A Pragmatic Overview” given by Peter Rose and Jeff Brown (of Rose & Associates, LLP.) that started a 9am and ran until about 5:30pm. This was a good overview. The instructors were frustrated because…