Another last

I just had my last good $45 haircut in German.  I can't wait to get a bad haircut for $15 in English!

One of those nights

Well, there won't be many more of these.  It's a perfectly clear night.  I've been looking out from our terrace all night.  We got a beautiful red sunset a couple of hours ago, and now the lake is being lit up by the crescent moon as it heads down toward the horizon.  There's going to be plenty to miss here.

Modified schedule

Some slight changes.  Here we go:

June 20-28, family trip to Stockholm and St. Petersburg
July 2, kids fly to Utah
July 6, Stace and I fly to Minnesota, buy a house
July 13, Stace flies to Utah
July 19, I fly back to Switzerland
July 23, I move out of my apartment and stay in a hotel for eight days
July 31, I leave Switzerland
Late August, we move into our new house

I still might sneak in a quick trip to Lisbon or something like that.

Still fine

Just really not much to report.  The kids go to school, I go to work, I try to spend time admiring the view from our terrace while we still have one, and so forth.

My brother Jed gets here on Saturday, though, so the party's about to begin . . . .

Summer plans

I haven't had much to say lately, but things are fine--just uninteresting.  For those of you who are curious, here's the plan for the summer:

June 20-28:  last family vacation, visiting Stockholm and Saint Petersburg.
July 2:  the kids fly out to Utah to stay with grandparents.
July 6-13:  Ethan and Stace fly to Minnesota to hunt for a house.
July 13:  Stace flies to Utah.  Ethan stays in Minnesota for a few more days to work and then heads back to Switzerland.
August 20 or so:  Ethan and Stace had back to Minnesota to close on the new mansion and buy two new luxury cars (like a three-year-old Elantra or something).
August 24 or so:  the kids head to Minnesota to get settled in, attend the Minnesota State Fair, and start school after Labor Day.
September 4:  Ethan starts his new/old job in Minnesota.
July 2033:  Ethan retires, Ethan and Stace sell the house and move to Orlando as a base from which to travel the world.

We found someone who's going to rent our old house, so we won't sell it for now.  It looks like we're going into the landlord business for at least a little while.

I see dead people

As I'm walking around the office in Eagan (Minnesota), I've noticed something more and more the longer I've been gone. I still recognize a lot of people in the building after four years, but they've forgotten about me. It's like I'm a ghost. As I pass someone I know and wave or say "hi," I can tell they have this moment where they're completely clueless as to who I am or why I look familiar to them (but with more gray hair). If they figure it out, it's usually after I've passed them.

I'm trying to be a little more careful not to throw people off these days, but it still happens from time to time.

Lindsey's baptism

Lindsey was baptized today. I baptized her in German but did the confirmation in English. And then, of course, we ate, which makes for a perfect day.