SnoWest Forums – Anatomy of a Windstorm; Washington State Ferry System in Action Well this has nothing to do with our move to Zürich but it’s cool nonetheless. This happened during the last windstorm, the day we left Seattle. Wow, imagine being on that ferry.
Our goal today was to get out of town and see some nature. A colleague mentioned taking the tour to Rigi , a mountain southwest of Zurich. We got something of a late start. We got a package deal at the ticket office at the Hauptbahnhof. Here is a shot of us on the train. …
My friend Scott was inspired recently to figure out a way to simply say “thank you” to all the vets out there. This isn’t a political statement either for or against the current war. It’s just a way of saying thanks to all the people who do put their lives on the line. So he …
In all fairness I have to say this is written after we moved. Nonetheless the idea for this post came before we moved and I have been thinking a lot about it. Many people asked us how we thought things would go. Someone suggested we write it down and laugh about it years later. So …
Okay, now the reality is setting in for everyone. I am working full time which is nice. Today we took the kids to school. They are attending a DfF (Deutsch fur Fremdsprachige) class, i.e. a class for people who don’t speak German. The building itself is imposing. I’ll post pictures at some point, but in …
I slept really well Days 1 & 2. I didn’t sleep well on Day 3. Last night (sort of the start of Day 4) I slept very well again. There have been several differences in all of those days so I cannot pin this down to any one thing, yet. However one thing of note …
One new thing for us is that we cannot “read” the weather. We don’t know where rain comes from or wind. We don’t have any sense of what the weather will bring. It turns out that the forecasters don’t either (which makes it just like Seattle!). We have Weather Underground predicting partly cloudy. Then we …
Gruetzi! Okay, that’s it for Swiss German today. Today we got out and about. We walked down to the lake on a cold but sunny day. We wandered through a swap-meet and then wandered up Bahnhofstrasse which is the main shopping street here. We met my colleagues and their families for lunch and then got …
I decided to write a little something about this after stumbling over a link in Tuesday Morning Quarterback. The irony in writing about violent entertainment as pointed to by a column on football does not escape me. That said… Gregg Easterbrook has a serious point. Yes, smoking in movies is bad. But why? Well… because …
As we race around getting ready for our move to Zürich many people ask “Paul, what are you doing?” I fumble around for an answer. Not because I don’t know what I will be doing but rather that I need to tailor the answer for the questioner. In other words my mom really doesn’t want …