Bellavista52 said:

Nice pictures but where's the snow?

kl8ton said:

JohnInCarolina said:

lousubcap said:

How are the driving habits on your road-trip?

Haha you’ll laugh, Frank. On the drive over from Frankfurt, we stopped in a small village for lunch.  To get to the institute, we took a scenic route over the mountains.

I was doing a pretty good clip up the mountain road when we all saw a red light flash once - bright and quick - on the side of the road.  Likely an automatic speed trap.  

I have no idea how it will work given that it’s a rental.  I suppose I’ll find out when I return the car on Sunday…

My BIL rented a car in Italy a little while back. His tickets were waiting for him in his mailbox at home. Good luck!

GrateEggspectations said:

Does anyone have pieces from this set? In need of some new furniture and am strongly considering them. 

https://www.costco.ca/prospera-home-barcelona-3-piece-top-grain-leather-living-room-set.product.100672696.html

DoubleEgger said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

They have a pretty cool tradition here, where everyone who gives a talk writes their abstract in a book - by hand.  Here’s mine:

< commence Brazilian wax jokes >

You have absolutely stunning handwriting.  Artistic flourishes, yet read-able.

You should see the checks he writes! IYKYK. 

Botch said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

They have a pretty cool tradition here, where everyone who gives a talk writes their abstract in a book - by hand.  Here’s mine:

< commence Brazilian wax jokes >

You have absolutely stunning handwriting.  Artistic flourishes, yet read-able.

The final years of my career I was always attending useless meetings, scribbling notes furiously.  It has shocked me how much handwriting is a learned skill, requiring regular practice, since retiring four years ago.  
I still bla-bla-bla on many forums, but that's all typing, a totally different skill-set.  When I have to write a check to someone, or even sign a document, it almost scares me how poorly I write in cursive anymore.
I know it doesn't take too long for that skill-set to come back; sometime in the last year or two of my AF Reserve years we had to inventory all the small explosive stores in a rather large warehouse, and both our barcode readers had failed.  So, we had to pick a row, one person would crawl around with a flashlight and read off the NSN, Quantity, Last Inspected date, and a bunch of other data I can't remember; while someone else followed with a clipboard, handwriting the data onto paper.  This took us about a week, and by the end my handwriting was back at its peak (and my knees/back were screaming; not everything comes back so easily).    

Botch said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

They have a pretty cool tradition here, where everyone who gives a talk writes their abstract in a book - by hand.  Here’s mine:

< commence Brazilian wax jokes >

You have absolutely stunning handwriting.  Artistic flourishes, yet read-able.

The final years of my career I was always attending useless meetings, scribbling notes furiously.  It has shocked me how much handwriting is a learned skill, requiring regular practice, since retiring four years ago.  
I still bla-bla-bla on many forums, but that's all typing, a totally different skill-set.  When I have to write a check to someone, or even sign a document, it almost scares me how poorly I write in cursive anymore.
I know it doesn't take too long for that skill-set to come back; sometime in the last year or two of my AF Reserve years we had to inventory all the small explosive stores in a rather large warehouse, and both our barcode readers had failed.  So, we had to pick a row, one person would crawl around with a flashlight and read off the NSN, Quantity, Last Inspected date, and a bunch of other data I can't remember; while someone else followed with a clipboard, handwriting the data onto paper.  This took us about a week, and by the end my handwriting was back at its peak (and my knees/back were screaming; not everything comes back so easily).    

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina - I am sure Duke ( via the expense report) will end up with an extra charge and in short order.  He!! even the toll roads here in TX can hit your rental within 10 days of the charge. 

Now to air it out on the Autobahn and see if there are any cameras. 

Enjoy and safe travels!