Arriving Home to an Expanded Family

We are back in the States this weekend, and we came home to a very exciting event: my mother-in-law adopted a puppy-mill-rescue Lhasa Apso. Her name is Halle, and she's an adorable 20 pound furball. Halle met our cat today and they seemed to get along well enough.

Hopefully those two have many get-togethers ahead of them.

Today in history: 380 years ago, the Vasa sank. I wonder if they had anything special at the museum we visited last week.

Life returns to its normal cycle tomorrow. When in Europe the bus drivers, line ladies and cell-phone tawkers disappear from one's mind replaced by metal kids, street performers and tourists of other nations. Wherever you go you can find characters if you look for them. All the world's indeed a stage as that guy from Rush said.

I guess what's most exciting is that I can spell-check these entries again. When you're outside the U.S. google logs you in using the primary language of whatever country you're visiting and therefore the spell-checker doesn't work for English if you're not in a country where English is the primary language. Ah technology, it's as screwed up as the beings that created it.