Panama Travelog #2
IAH Airport - Sun, 22 Dec 2024. 6am.

We're headed to Panama. Now we're farther than a mere 10 miles away from home; we're about halfway there. We're making a connection in Houston ( Read more... )

Panama Travelog #1
SJC Airport - Sat, 21 Dec 2024. 10pm.

We're leaving for Panama this evening. In a sense we've left already. We've left home. Though we're only ~10 miles away from home so far, at the airport in San Jose ( Read more... )

It's amusing. After I blogged this morning about how I'm not sick of Northern California's rainy season yet I checked my weather app again for Panama- we leave tonight- and saw this:


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Today, December 21st, is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. It's the shortest day, the longest night, and the start of winter by modern convention ( Read more... )

My birthday was this week. Yay, another year older ( Read more... )

As I wind down the workday today it amuses me to think that I'm just about done with work for the year. Today's Friday. Next week I'm taking PTO Mon-Tue, then my company has holiday recess from Wednesday (Christmas) through January 1. My next workday is Jan 2, 2025 ( Read more... )

"So, I see Southwest is changing to assigned seats," many relatives and friends of my inlaws' family prompted me during our Thanksgiving visit ( Read more... )

Another one of my credit cards posted its annual fee following account anniversary recently. This is a card I happen to have owned a long time, 7 years. That's longer than any other hotel/airline affinity card I currently own, and longer than all but one hotel/airline card I've ever owned in the past. As I've kept this card so long you might think ( Read more... )

Today Hawk and I took a third Covid-19 test each. I'm happy to say we are both Covid negative now.

This "all clear" signal comes 12 days after I first started experiencing symptoms and 9 days later for Hawk. It took me a bit longer to get clear than her because my first Covid test was a negative one- presumably a false negative. Based on that ( Read more... )

Every year we start discussing early in the year, "Where should we go at the end of the year?" And every year it seems we end up putting off not only the planning but even choosing where to go until relatively late. This year we actually decided a month ago, in mid November. We're going to PanamaYes, we'll see the Panama Canal. From a young age my ( Read more... )