Before we moved to Germany, I bought an external hard drive to keep digital photos on. Over the weekend, I connected it to see what I had. It turns out I have over 5,300 photos totaling more than 23 gigabytes! Obviously, I’m a little behind in sorting pictures and uploading them to our gallery. Since [...]

We arrived in Austin last night after a very long day of travel. Mom and Laurie met us at the airport, and after claiming our luggage and picking up a rental car we went straight to our favorite Tex-Mex restaurant, Matt’s El Rancho, for our first Tex-Mex in months. It was great as always! Then [...]

Today was my last day at work here in Dresden. I gave a presentation at the staff meeting reviewing all the things I did here, and they gave me a nice book on Dresden and a box full of cool AMD goodies, including a yo-yo and lip balm(?!). It was a pretty hectic day trying [...]

A guy from a local moving company came by this morning to pack our air shipment to Austin. Since we brought everything with us in suitcases, we just packed the stuff we won’t need immediately back into the suitcases, and he loaded them into the shipping container. Of course, we’ve also accumulated a few other [...]

Today Melissa and I went to a festival in Dresden. As usual, there was lots of good food, drinks, music, and local arts and crafts. Melissa and I both had delicious bratwurst and enjoyed the great fall weather we’ve had for the past couple of weeks. After we ate, we walked over to the Frauenkirche [...]