And so it starts...

Germany day one.
My flight to Germany was rather uneventful. Uneventful in the fact that I deemed only one person needed a face punching. I flew out of Chicago and right behind me sat a mother with a one year old that proceeded to wail like a fire engine siren en route to a four alarmer. That didn't bother me though because I think about my daughter traveling with her baby and how difficult it is. Plus babies tend to go to sleep, which this one did about an hour later so no big deal.
I had an aisle seat and one of the two ladies that sat next to me informed me that she was pregnant and hoped I didn't mind the fact that she had to get up every five minutes to pee. This didn't bother me either, because I understood the situation and actually welcomed the excuse to stand up every so often to stretch my legs. She told me she was on her way to India for a wedding and had another eight hour flight once she got to Frankfurt. Wow. She did politely turn down my request to name her baby after me though, but that didn't bother me either.
But what DID bother me was the a-hole in front of me that, as soon as the captain turned off the seatbelt sign, proceeded to slam his seat back like he was at home in a La-z-boy, effectively removing about six inches of space I had. Sure I could have reclined my seat, but with the lady behind me holding a child, I was not going to make things worse for her. So instead I just sat there and watched movies and made sure that every time the pregnant lady next to me had to pee, the seat in front of me got an extra hard shove. It never ceases to amaze me how unaware people are about their surroundings and do not think about their actions and how it effects others. Someday Karma will recline its seat in that guys face, and I hope it's a fat stinky one.
After I landed I took the trains to my daughter's house. It was around 9 am when I got there, which is 2 am CST, so I took a nap for a couple of hours. My son-in-law Shane came home and I made me something to eat and I started messing around on my laptop. I had been experiencing issues with the thing and was trying to fix a problem I was having with Google Earth. So when I rebooted my computer, it would not boot. Then we tried to fix it and then the whole thing just crashed. My only possible solution at this point is to buy a boot disk and wipe the harddrive to start over. So big problem, that laptop has my photo editing software on it, and since I can't take a real photo, I am in BIG TROUBLE.
By the way, it is absolutely beautiful here today, 52 degrees and sunny, that cold clean air is so easy to breath, I just love this place. My daughter Shana is pulling 24 hour duty today so Shane and I may head over to Metz, France, a little over an hour away. BTW, Kanoa ate like 5 strips of bacon and wants some more. Mmmmmmmmmmmm.... bacon.