Funeral Blues

Today was Tina’s Memorial Service. People travelled from pretty far away to come and a lot of people stood up to tell some wonderful memories and stories of her. It’s amazing how people know only a sliver of someone’s life. For each part of er life a friend or family member would stand up and narrate. Her father would tell stories of her growing up. Her cousin explained about her school days. And on it went. The other amazing thing was how much everyone knew her in the same way. It was so … consistent throughout. Of course Tina was a total superstar in anything and everything that she did. I doubt many people could live up to her legacy.

Sledding at Bard

This afternoon, we all went sledding at Bard at Blythwood. Here’s Jeremy being the horse for Vince. Everyone loves to sled. Ruby and Trudy came along and ran around in the snow. The weather was really cold when we got up (-7 F) but by the time we got to Bard it was at least 30 F. Balmy! It hasn’t been so warm for many, many days.

Moving again…

So it’s becoming clearer and clearer that we are moving again. Jeremy has been mentioning it for months, but I never quite believe him. It sounds like we are headed to Dresden sometime in Q2, otherwise known as April, May or June. Then staying until the end of the year. At the beginning of the new year, we will be moving to Singapore for a 2 year contract. Since we may be staying in Germany about 6 months, I think this means I get to forget about learning any German. I’m excited to visit all the youth hostels in Europe, but I’m also getting into the groove here in Wappingers Falls, NY 12590.

Pizza day update

So today was pizza day again at Bright Horizons. I send Vince off in the morning with a Ziploc bag full of $1.50 for his 2 slices of pizza. Pick up time for Vince is usually noon, but the pie gets delivered at noon, so restrained myself and spent another 30 minutes at home today. I walked in at 12:30 and the pizza man has just arrived. Vince takes one look at me and holds his hands up like the Supremes (Stop! In the name of love) and screams, “Nooooooo!!!!”. He stopped screaming as soon as it was clear to him that he got to stay for the pizza. I sat around and talked to Miss Pat, his teacher. Today was full of drama, another kid in the class split her lip and chipped a tooth in the activity room today. She was happily eating her pizza waiting for her mom to pick her up and take her to the dentist.

Vince was the slowest eater in the class. Hadn’t even started his 2nd slice and all the other kids were done.

Amazon Interview

It went well. I think the guy liked me a lot. It was almost refreshing in a way. Somehow it seems more low key than all these bay area firms that i’ve been interviewing at. I told hiw that I didn’t necessarily want to do what i did before and he came back and told me that he used to do hardware and that he’s much more fulfilled working at amazon. So both people that i’ve talked to there have been extremely nice. I have a good feeling about it.