Doomsday

Well, not exactly. But tomorrow our billable hours at work start counting (the fiscal year starts). There is much nervousness among the new asociates - will we have enough work? Can we bill enough hours? Will we get to sleep?

I'm a little nervous (I'd probably be concerned if I *wasn't*). But I think I'll be OK - here's hoping! And besides, the holiday season would not be a bad time to be a little on the slow side, if sometime during the year needs to be that way...

Thanksgiving

Ok, so I'm a few days late - I was out of town. :-)

A wonderful Thanksgiving: getting to spend time with family, see good friends, and eat great food! We didn't get to see everyone we wanted to (there's never enough time) and we probably ate WAY too much, but all in all a good weekend.

Some new goals - I figure why wait for New Years? (Although I'll probably set some more then.) One of those goals is to post more often here - I'm going to start taking the camera with me more often, and just make little posts when I don't have photos.

More about other goals later this week! Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well!

More Mulhouse...

And now, back by popular demand, travel photos! These are more pictures in and around Mulhouse, France.



The B&B we stayed in during our stay in Mulhouse. The owners were wonderful - we had great discussions in mixed English and French with them (throw in a little something else when having breakfast with the Belgians who were also staying there). They also treated us wonderfully - and insisted on providing a nightcap (local pear liqueur) and coffee (more like espresso) each night when we returned.



This was the view off the little balcony of our suite - we had a huge bedroom, a sitting room, a little hallway, a private bath - and of course the balcony. We enjoyed several bottles of wine out here of an evening!



Le Cheval Blanc - the White Horse - was a little tavern/restaurant about a 10 minute walk from our B&B. Amazingly good steak, for a little town (and a place that looked popular with the locals and students - there's a large university near this part of town).



Finally - this cathedral is actually in Germany, in Freiburg. Another university town, since medieval times. The streets all have canals with running water along both sides (with little ramps to get from the street to the sidewalk). Apparently the canals made it a lot easier to keep the streets clean. Now, they're mostly a neat tourist sight (and a place for little kids to splash in).

And yet more water...

More water crisis - involving a backed-up kitchen sewer (thankfully, the building's bathroom sewers are on a *different* line) and lots of pressure, but all is well now, and we've been assured of why things happened and why they will not happen again.

Yay.

If you know any water gods, please ask them to lay off, OK?

But in more exciting news, I had my first state court appearance today - and I didn't pass out! It went well, I got to say about 10 words on the record, and next time I'll be a veteran. :-)

Hope you are all doing well!