back in the U.S.A

hello all!!!

I made it back. the flight home wasnt bad at all. My friend Johnannes gave me a life to the airport with was a big help, as it would have sucked to have dragged my 100+ pounds of stuff to the S-bahn station at 5m on Sunday. Once at the airport I discovered that my flight to London had been cancelled. They put us on a Lufthansa flight that left a bit earlier and there was no problems. Went through security once there (keep count of this for later). The german border police took a bit longer that the others with my passport but didn't say anything and didn't ask any questions. So it would seem I have no problems there. Once in London I transfered to to Terminal 5 and went through security again, full pat down (possibly due to me forgetting I had my watch on... or maybe I just looked weird... who knows.. I waited around in the terminal for a bit, I got my tax refund on the few items I had the receipts for and then made my way to the gate for my flight to Boston. Once there we had to go through additional screening at the gate. (third time).

This took forever, between this and possibly a stacking of planes we didnt leave London till around 12 noon (supposed to be 11). Though somehow we managed to get into Boston around 15 min ahead of schedule... speedy. The flight was good, I slept a bit, watched some tv, tried to read and then slept some more. I got 20 questions from the border patrol guy here.. why I was there so long and how I had so much vacation with my job. through some fancy wording of travel arrangements and (mostly) true statements he sent me on my way. So we'll see if my passport is good the next time I need to go someplace...

I spent the rest of the day at Salt Hill enjoying some music and then moving stuff into my new place in Bow with the two Chris's. It will be a nice place to hang my hat while I search for a reasonable place closer to the city.

The boston office is a complete change from stuttgart. Just on a completely different set of priorities. Its a bit hard to get used to and its definitely going to take me a while to adjust my brain to how this office works. But its nice to come at it from this end than to go the other way. I am working on the Baltimore Law Center project and helping the rest of the office with the drawing sets that are going out.

Well thats all for now... bed is calling after a long first day...