As usual I am behind with everything. I have started adding photos to some previous posts when I didn’t know how to upload pictures. Jeff tries to keep me ignorant so he can hold his computer genius over me, but I will no longer be oppressed. I am woman hear me ROAR! Ok, so maybe [...]
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16 Nov
Pierogi making in Amsterdam: who would have thought it?
I know, I know, who would have thought I would need to travel all the way to Amsterdam to finally learn how to make pierogies from scratch!??! For those non-Polish people out there, pierogies are dough filled with potatoes, cheese, and onions (really any variety of fillings you could think of, but potato and cheese [...]
1 Nov
I’m a Model of Consistency
Staci pointed out the other day that I hadn’t posted in a while, so what do I do? I wait to post even longer. Not on purpose, I just kept finding other things to do: work play tour guide to our first visitors, Andre and Amber stay up ridiculously late so I can watch the [...]
27 Oct
Excursion to Volgermeer (part 1): a history lesson
So, for my second course in the ERM program, we did an excursion to a hazardous waste site north of Amsterdam that is currently being reclaimed. The site is called Volgermeerpolder. The city of Amsterdam began dumping waste here after the peat was harvested for burning at the turn of the century. Turns out household [...]
15 Oct
Staci’s impersonation of a Dutch girl on a bike
Well if you know anything about Amsterdam (or the Netherlands) it is probably that people love their bikes. In fact, bikes are everywhere! You should be more scared of bikes than cars when walking through the city. You might recall from a previous post by Jeff that I get to ride my bike to and [...]
6 Oct
Lesson #2: wine and laptops don’t mix
So, lesson #1 in Amsterdam was things here take time – develop patience or become a stress ball. Lesson #2: wine and laptops don’t mix. While I was living in our apartment sans TV and any decent radio stations I was using my laptop to play music. Curled up on the couch by the only [...]
10 Aug
And so the adventure begins
So our flights were rather uneventful, aside from having to go through security at each airport (Columbus, Chicago and Dublin) – take off shoes, jackets & belts, now pull out laptops, cameras and hard drives, bag of non-hazardous toiletries and place on security belt, & proceed through line, simultaneously grab luggage, shoes, belts, bags, & [...]
8 Aug
Goodbye (For Now)
So the time has come for us to say goodbye to our friends and family in the United States and begin our adventure in Amsterdam. Click here for pictures from our Bon Voyage Party. Our flight leaves in a few hours, and we’re slowly but surely finishing up packing our belongings that will tide us [...]
2 Jul
Comments are now available
After discovering a bug in WordPress, the blogging software running jeffandstaci.us, and subsequently fixing it, comments are now working. Currently, they are un-moderated, but if things get out of hand due to spam, I’ll probably turn on registration.
25 Jun
Pants-Free Workplace
My goal of returning to a pants-free workplace is nearly a reality. In just a few short weeks, the necessity of wearing pants to work will be a distant memory. (Well, for as long as I work remotely, that is.) What I’m saying is I got a new job. I’ll be working as a contractor [...]
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