Usually my youngest son calls on his way to work. Is almost 10:00 AM and have not heard from him. I work from home so I am able to receive his calls pretty much any time. I do not like to call him because he works out in the mornings and has to go home, get ready and drive to work. His time varies from day to day. We have this unspoken arrangement that if he does not have a chance to call we will do so the next day.
The arrangement is exactly the opposite on weekends. I tend to call him as soon as my wife and I head out for the first activity of the day. Typically is on our way to or from shopping for groceries or running any other morning errand. Continue reading “Missing Two”
Last weekend my wife and I stopped to visit our son who also lives in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. On our last trip to Europe, our granddaughters asked us if we could get for their dad a bottle of flavored vodka in the duty free store in the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. At the time looked like a good idea. He seems to enjoy vodka. When we returned home the girls gave their dad the bottle. 
Currently we live in a world of deception. The overflow of data that we are exposed to every day via news channels, companies and social media streams does not allow us to easily distinguish what is true, what is somewhat true and what are just plain lies.
It is Friday and it has been a long week and I am feeling somewhat tired. My wife and I have been invited for dinner at one of her brother’s house. I am looking forward to decompress later today.
It is Thursday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the sun is shining. Later this afternoon my wife and I will go walking for an hour. Not too many days left before it gets really cold and start to snow.
I am writing a white paper on Agile. Hope to get done by the end of this week. I will be looking where to start posting it and future ones besides this blog.
This past week my wife, our granddaughters and I returned from a holiday trip to Europe. We visited several cities in Italy, Belgium and Amsterdam. We flew commercial airlines to move between large cities. This made me think of airplane routes and filling up the tanks with fuel. For efficiency reasons airplanes do not get refueled on each stop if it can be avoided. Depending on the part of the world you travel to, airplanes have minimum amounts of fuel they must have on board when they takeoff. The amount depends on the distance to the next stop. I know a few things about the subject because I flew for fun private planes for a few years. For personal reasons (wife and family) I decided to stop. 
It is a gloomy Tuesday in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. It rained last night. It is quite damp. It is a typical fall day in this part of the country. The only difference is that in the past two years the lawns are green instead of being brown. I do not know for sure the cause for the climate change which is a very controversial topic, but for sure something is changing.