tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63967942024-03-19T12:00:29.567+00:00A way for us to keep all of you updated - hopefully somewhat frequently ;-).Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-36416345332365449882007-09-11T23:58:00.000+01:002007-09-12T00:06:37.532+01:00

Have to keep this one short as we're up tomorrow morning at 5:00 am to start our four day, 280 mile, cycle to Paris!If we haven't told you about it yet in one way or another, we're doing it with a group of Penny's colleagues and we're raising money for the Children with Leukaemia charity. We've done a bit of training - but probably not as much as we would have liked! Oh well, we'll do fine :). At

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-68760204449715934052007-05-23T22:10:00.000+01:002007-05-23T23:04:29.073+01:00

Well, we've been up to lots over the past few months, but let's not dwell on the past, shall we :)?The topic near and dear to me at the moment is my budding career as a rugby star. Well...that may be a bit of an overstatement.Penny and I signed up to play touch rugby with the Aussie/Kiwi contingent this spring, so I'm learning the ropes...slowly but surely. They started me off throwing the ball

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We had a bit of excitment today with some snow in London! Finally! I blame the movies, but when we moved to London a few years ago, I had Dickensian visions of strolling down snow lined streets past red telephone boxes and gas powered street lights.Our street with snow! Ok, so I knew the gas lights wouldn't be around anymore, and I certainly didn't have a top hat and a cane, but I did think we

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Well - in an effort to maintain my role as an occasional blogger, I swore to myself that I would update the good old blog before a year had passed since my last post (my, how my standards have dropped!). And as its' superbowl sunday (scroll down, to see my last post from last years' superbowl sunday), I figured I had better get busy and post something...anything...even though my blogging has

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Ahh - there's nothing like watching the superbowl in a foreign land at 1:30 in the morning on a school night :). That early morning start tomorrow will be a bit rough...In the spirit of Super Bowl Sunday, Penny and I decided to whip up an extra large batch of Nachos for dinner this evening, and boy was it good. For some reason, the Brits just do not know how to make good Nachos and it's been a

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Greetings all, and Happy New Year - best wishes for 2006!As you can probably imagine, one of my resolutions for this year was to post more often, so we'll see how long I can stick with it. To give me some incentive, I spent some time this past weekend redesigning the site to make it a bit fresher, and add some features that might enourage me post more. Specifically - I've enabled comments, so you

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1134950803350584182005-12-18T23:55:00.000+00:002005-12-19T00:06:44.436+00:00

Going to be a quick one, but I wanted to post to let you all know about two moves!Firstly - we've moved flats!! Our new address is:13 Willow Bridge RoadLower Ground FloorLondon, UKN1 2LBIt's nicer, more spacious, and we're loving it already :) (see below for link to some photos)!Secondly - I've decided to abandon the good people over at Kodak, and set up a photo sharing account at flickr. As far

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1121953627364214362005-07-21T14:28:00.000+01:002005-07-21T14:50:34.646+01:00

Sigh - well, it seems that London has been the target of another attack that is somewhat similar to the one we experienced two weeks ago...thankfully the magnitude isn't nearly as severe. Firstly - Penny and I are safe and sound, and so are our friends and colleagues. To be honest - it is just frustrating and annoying more than anything. Yes, there's an element of fear, and of concern - but more

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Hello everyone - Don't have a ton of time to post right now as we're just about to have a meeting at work to go over logistics of getting everyone home - but I thought I'd just let everyone know that Penny and I are both safe and sound. Unfortunately the explosions were relatively close to the neigborhoods where we work/live - but we both travelled safely this morning and didn't catch wind of the

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1108068769464541982005-02-10T20:41:00.000+00:002005-02-10T20:52:49.463+00:00

At first glance, the title of this post may throw you off a bit. With more context, it becomes crystal clear... I am currently huddled up on a wet, plastic garden chair on our patio on a misty London evening. "Why?" you ask? Well, this is the "slow" part. Today I participated in my first ever new business pitch at WaggEd in a small town near Manchester (about 2 hours away from London). It all

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1107125949427246922005-01-30T22:07:00.000+00:002005-01-30T22:59:09.426+00:00

Holidays, right? Lots of food, physical inactivity, general indulgence and good times. So when someone says - "who wants to do a half marathon in March," the guilt portion of your brain kicks in and says "YES - the perfect target to get me back in shape, sounds great!!" Then three weeks later, you're running 6k in the dark while it's raining and 5 degrees celsius in the dead of a London winter..

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1105310406377588932005-01-09T21:09:00.000+00:002005-01-09T22:40:06.376+00:00

Well - I've been a bit remiss in my posting duties, but I'm getting our Christmas and New Years pics from Chamonix posted up on the right hand side ----->. Since a picture is worth 1000 words, and there's something like 50 pictures...I figure that makes up for the past month or so :). Chamonix was awesome - really amazing place to go if you're a hard core skier, a complete beginner, or not

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Merry Christmas everyone - and best wishes for the new year!!! No time to write a big post right now, I'm afraid - we're off to Chamonix for a week :). Will post upon our return with pics...we promise :) Best, Jeff & Penny

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This is really going to throw you all off guard. For the first time in several months, I’m not going to start a post by apologizing for not posting in so long. In fact – I’m quite impressed with the fact that I’ve actually found time to sit down and write a blog post without feeling incredibly guilty about the lack of activity on the site :-)…it’s a good feeling…yay positive reinforcement ;-).

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1095255810562501492004-09-15T14:13:00.000+01:002004-09-15T14:43:30.563+01:00

So my good, and wise, friend Urn sent me this note a while back: blog (n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author. (v.) To author a Web log. Other forms: Blogger (a person who blogs). additional comment: probably updated more than ONCE A MONTH,

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1090936111015875632004-07-27T14:46:00.000+01:002004-07-27T15:05:33.560+01:00

Ok – after several death threats, I figured I should probably hop online and update the good ol’ blog ;-). Not that this is probably news to any of you – but LANCE WON #6 :-)!!! Much to the chagrin of my co-workers, I’ve had a need to keep everyone up-to-date on Lance’s progress…so why spare you? It was an exciting race this year – and we actually got to see part of it live (more below)!

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1088616285668524942004-06-30T18:24:00.000+01:002004-06-30T19:08:53.516+01:00

Well - it happened again... I just got back to Europe on Monday after a (mostly) great trip back to the states for DJ & Rena's wedding. Was great seeing everyone, the weddings were awesome (Josh & Melissa also got married), ate mexican food three times, got to spend a little (not enough) time with the family - and got to catch up with a lot of people...apologies to anyone we didn't have time to

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1087163345609877272004-06-13T21:30:00.000+01:002004-06-13T22:56:36.390+01:00

Ugh - it's been a while...many apologies to those of you who have faithfully checked back now and again, promise to post at least every couple of weeks moving forward!! (I’ll do my best, anyway). Well, have been really busy over the last month or so, but have been making sure to have lots of fun too. Where to start... Had our Ocho de Mayo (Cinco de mayo...except on the 8th of may) party at the

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1082856337166229972004-04-25T02:11:00.000+01:002004-04-25T02:32:04.606+01:00

Right, so I haven't posted anything since the first week of April - and I know that's horrible of me. I will do better, I promise. *BUT* The delay was because I was getting our webspace set up to host our pictures for the blog - so that's the good news :)! If you take a gander at the side of the blog, you'll notice a new section titled "Photo Albums." This is where we'll be hosting our pics

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1081292274859357642004-04-06T23:00:00.000+01:002004-04-07T00:01:41.046+01:00

Well - We're getting ready to take our first trip out of the country! Heading off in the morning to spend five days in sunny (knock on wood) Portugal! We're pretty excited about it - at the very least, it's a chance to get out and just relax for a while...which will be welcomed by both of us. I have to admit...not sure what to expect, but I suppose that's the fun of it :). We'll be staying in a

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1080599837678575302004-03-29T23:36:00.000+01:002004-03-29T23:40:52.280+01:00

Changed our home phone number...would've kept me up all night ;-).

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Going to be a very quick post, even though I know I've been neglecting the blog recently :(. Well, the time has come - after lots of scratching my head in confusion and saying unpleasant things about our ISP and the manufacturer of our router - we finally have broadband and wireless set up in our flat. What does that mean, you ask? Well - I'm making this posting while sitting on the bed,

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1079475191239962572004-03-16T21:48:00.000+00:002004-03-16T22:18:00.780+00:00

Oops - never got around to adding our home phone number to the site. (sorry mom ;-)). So, added some updated contact numbers on the right (home & Penny)- as well as some links to London info and some friends' blogs further down the page. Not much to report since the weekend really - softball practice was rained out on sunday...which was a bit of a bummer, especially since I traveled about an

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1079369291980958842004-03-15T15:59:00.000+00:002004-03-15T17:03:36.186+00:00

Ozo-spankin'-matli, that's who. We went and saw Ozomatli on Friday night at the Jazz Cafe in London & had an amazing time!! The venue was great, and the band was in top form. Easily on my top 5 concerts list....and I know that it was in Penny's top 2 :). I was a bit concerned that we could only get seats to the show (all of the standing room was sold out) - but it worked out a lot better I

Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00199855784450928046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396794.post-1078663142270251822004-03-07T11:40:00.000+00:002004-03-07T13:28:14.513+00:00

So - here I am, connected to the 'net from home for the first time. Supposedly we'll have broadband by next week sometime - but for now we're cruising the information superhighway at a whopping 48kbps. Really - it's not too bad, but it will be nice to be able to go a bit faster, listen to music online, and get the WLAN set up at some pont so we can do it all from the patio ;-). So - what's new

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