SwimFinsSF

Olbermann and Clinton

This is about a 10 minute segment but well worth listening to..

New Art

The remodel isn’t even done but we’ve got new artwork to put in the new place. Some time ago Kevin got in touch with Casey O’Connell who was an artist whose work was showing at Chow on church street. Her work is really cool in an edgy innocent sort of way.

Kevin originally was scouting for artists to show at the art shows at Gensler but after talking about it we decided it would be cool to get one of her pieces for home. We met with her over dinner at Chow and absolutely loved her. She’s REALLY sweet and we had the best dinner where she spent a lot of time getting to know us and we got the scoop on who she was and her story.. After we left we decided that it would be cool to have more than one and as it happened she got some of her other work back and let us come pick out one while she was finishing ours…

So now we’re the proud owner of two of the coolest paintings. The first one is a very personal one of hers about her sister (there is a HUGE story behind it and i’m not even going to try to tell it) and the second is the one we got this weekend that she painted for us.

I think the best part was when I was talking to my carpool partner about it. I described that we were having this done and that we were picking it up tonight – to which he asked ‘Well what if you don’t like it’… It honestly never occurred to me that I wouldn’t like it…. And I wasn’t wrong – I think its really damn cool! 🙂

If you wanna check out her stuff you can see it on her web site or at a show at Gensler in January

By the way – i’m back

US Embassy

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For those of you who don’t see me in person – I’m back from europe at this point and swamped with the mundane daily grind around here.. The rest of the trip was good – lots of work and interesting meetings with customers as well as some time to explore London. I’ve been to London before but I took some time to do a little sight seeing anyway…

My hotel was right by the US embassy which was kinda interesting. The Embassy looks like a bunker with nasty make shift fences all around it and a flock of peace protesters sitting out front – it was sad and cool all at the same time..

After exploring the neighborhood on Saturday I spent the day walking all over the place – lots of tourist stuff and other exploring. Buckingham Palace, St. James Park, Big Ben, London Eye, Trafalger Square, 10 Downing Street… Ya know.. all the important stuff! 🙂

And for my last night I went to see Avenue Q (which was fantastic) and then went to the Hoist (which was also very cool!)…

But now i’m back to the regular stuff… Lots of work.. Still fighting with the contractors.. That kind of thing..

Anyway – thats the update… Check out the pix if you’re interested! 🙂

Travels in Europe

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I’m still in the middle of this trip to Europe which is pretty cool… When I last posted about my g-ma I was in Cologne… The trip started in Berlin with Kevin which was a lot of fun.. He and I spent a bunch of days in Berlin and spent most of it doing tourist stuff.. Jet lag on this one was pretty rough so it wasn’t nearly as social a trip as we thought it might be (no parties or anything).. But we did get around to see a lot of the city which was cool… We made it to a bunch of touristy things including Schloß Charlottenburg, the Dom, the Neue Nationalgalarie, a River tour, the Zoo, and a bunch of other stuff.. We also hit a couple of really cool restaurants (Pan Asia, Schwarzen Raben)… The weather wasn’t great but still cool..

After Kevin had to go back on Tuesday (wahh), I went on to Cologne for a few days to hang out.. Did a whole lot of walking and exploring as well as sitting out at restaurants on the Rhine and writing in a journal.. Was nice and the weather was GORGEOUS there of course..

Then Thursday I went on to Amsterdam for work and i’m still there (till tomorrow)… This part of the trip has been a lot of work actually.. Customer conversations and exploring the trade show.. Very good though not very touristy… But the weather has been very nice and cool hanging out with co-workers…

Tomorrow i’m off to London for more meetings.. I do get to stay one extra day to explore but thats it – then back to the states..

Trip has been nice but i’m tired of living out of a suitcase and I miss my man…

If ya wanna check out pix you can look here..

Now off to dinner

Beth I Steinauer: 3/19/21 – 9/5/06

Me, Grandma, and Dad

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I love you and I’ll miss you… There are candles lit for you in Cologne today… Happy Travels! :):)

xoxo
Pete

OK.. this is cool

I’m sitting on an f-ing Airplane and can get to the internet… Lufthansa has wireless networking on its flights (at least on the 747 I’m sitting on)… Man I love the Germans! ;)..

Oh yea… I’m on a plane on my way to Germany… I have to be in Amsterdam next Thursday for work and then off to London as well for meetings.. So Kevin and I decided to tack on a week at the beginning and go to Berlin. And, conveniently enough, it happens to be the weekend for Folsom Europe.. How convenient… ;).. So i’m gonna be in Berlin till next tuesday with Kevin at which point he has to head back to the states.. I’m gonna go to either Cologne or Hamburg for two nights before heading on to Amsterdam… I’ll be in Amsterdam for IBC for a few days before going on to London…

Convenient timing too since the house is a hell hole.. but I won’t go into that right now – it’ll stress me out! :(:(

More stories from the air soon.. they’re serving dinner! 🙂