Long flight. Thank god it was direct. That really makes all the difference. We left JFK at 6:50 and arrived 8:00 hours later which was 9:00 am in Austria. Took a cab to the hotel and went right to breakfast. Wasn't feeling so hot at that point.
But we forced ourselves to stay up. MB and I took a walk around the neighborhood waiting for Mike and Linda and Alex to arrive. A few hours later we ran into them in the street and we all did some more looking around. The architecture is amazing.
Vienna is beautiful. We're staying right in the heart of the city near St. Stephen's church. I have lots of pictures, but it doesn't seem like I will be able to get my machine on line (I'm at a cafe right now.)
Around 2:00 we went back to the hotel and I slept until 4:00. Surprisingly, having not slept at all the night before, this was enough to feel pretty good. At 6:00 we took a cab a half hour out of town to a winery where we took a short tour and then had dinner with the owner. Great guy. Great meal. Great wine. More details on all that should be coming from Mike.
Today was more touring around the city. Tonight is a bigger meal in Vienna, and then tomorrow we head out for the country and more wineries. Very fun so far.
Last night I had the strongest, clearest, and most numerous dreams of my life. Quite strange toward morning. Luckily I can report that the plot to take over the world using ingestible tablet microcomputers was foiled when the giant Amanita mushroom spaceship broke free and escaped.
Two days until Knoll, the expected highlight of the trip. More reports to follow.
Keep those dreams coming and remind MB, Alex and Mike to eat lots of sausages for my birthday.
The street vender sausages.
I don't know how you all keep running into yourselves in streets? Happy Thanksgiving! We are having turkey and cranberries and you all are wining and dining. A friend of your grandmother told her that she should not be worried that a child had strange dreams. It was to be associated with a "vivid imagination" and that child should become a writer. She did not. So what are you going to do with it?
Please eat sweet stuff with mounds of whipped cream. Now that is a dream!
Love and happy holidays.
Jim writes imaginative code (also posts).
I have a friend who is an actor. She's been on sitcom's and in countless movies, had a one woman show at Lincoln Center, fronted one of the more popular "college" rock groups etc. Despite buying her mother a nice big house on a nice piece of land her mother still asks her when she's going to get a "real job."
Blogging one of the more interesting writing forms going. Jim is doing it.
Didn't mean it as a negative for Jim. I love his imagination. See, I can't write clearly! He knows how enormously proud I am for, with, and of him that he can.
And I meant no offense Jeanne. Your love and pride for Jim is obvious.
...but, where the hell is that free house.
looks like i was the only one whom skweezed one in....11/30 at 2:45pm, it was pork parts with cheeze and they cut a hole in the bun center and slid it in with mustard as the lube....
How was it?
tasted great, mild upsetting on the stomach (but the stomach was hit hard all week), which i had tried more....
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But we forced ourselves to stay up. MB and I took a walk around the neighborhood waiting for Mike and Linda and Alex to arrive. A few hours later we ran into them in the street and we all did some more looking around. The architecture is amazing.
Vienna is beautiful. We're staying right in the heart of the city near St. Stephen's church. I have lots of pictures, but it doesn't seem like I will be able to get my machine on line (I'm at a cafe right now.)
Around 2:00 we went back to the hotel and I slept until 4:00. Surprisingly, having not slept at all the night before, this was enough to feel pretty good. At 6:00 we took a cab a half hour out of town to a winery where we took a short tour and then had dinner with the owner. Great guy. Great meal. Great wine. More details on all that should be coming from Mike.
Today was more touring around the city. Tonight is a bigger meal in Vienna, and then tomorrow we head out for the country and more wineries. Very fun so far.
Last night I had the strongest, clearest, and most numerous dreams of my life. Quite strange toward morning. Luckily I can report that the plot to take over the world using ingestible tablet microcomputers was foiled when the giant Amanita mushroom spaceship broke free and escaped.
Two days until Knoll, the expected highlight of the trip. More reports to follow.
- jim 11-25-2002 6:50 pm
Keep those dreams coming and remind MB, Alex and Mike to eat lots of sausages for my birthday.
- steve 11-25-2002 8:59 pm
The street vender sausages.
- steve 11-25-2002 9:00 pm
I don't know how you all keep running into yourselves in streets? Happy Thanksgiving! We are having turkey and cranberries and you all are wining and dining. A friend of your grandmother told her that she should not be worried that a child had strange dreams. It was to be associated with a "vivid imagination" and that child should become a writer. She did not. So what are you going to do with it?
Please eat sweet stuff with mounds of whipped cream. Now that is a dream!
Love and happy holidays.
- jeanne 11-26-2002 6:04 pm
Jim writes imaginative code (also posts).
- tom moody 11-27-2002 6:14 am
I have a friend who is an actor. She's been on sitcom's and in countless movies, had a one woman show at Lincoln Center, fronted one of the more popular "college" rock groups etc. Despite buying her mother a nice big house on a nice piece of land her mother still asks her when she's going to get a "real job."
Blogging one of the more interesting writing forms going. Jim is doing it.
- steve 11-27-2002 8:15 am
Didn't mean it as a negative for Jim. I love his imagination. See, I can't write clearly! He knows how enormously proud I am for, with, and of him that he can.
- jeanne 11-27-2002 4:15 pm
And I meant no offense Jeanne. Your love and pride for Jim is obvious.
- steve 11-27-2002 10:33 pm
...but, where the hell is that free house.
- bill 11-28-2002 1:09 am
looks like i was the only one whom skweezed one in....11/30 at 2:45pm, it was pork parts with cheeze and they cut a hole in the bun center and slid it in with mustard as the lube....
- Skinny 12-02-2002 3:57 am
How was it?
- steve 12-02-2002 6:05 am
tasted great, mild upsetting on the stomach (but the stomach was hit hard all week), which i had tried more....
- Skinny 12-02-2002 3:09 pm