{"id":4,"date":"2008-06-19T15:42:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T13:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-06-20T22:26:04","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T20:26:04","slug":"an-update-from-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"An Update from Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Distance and lack of communication takes its toll on relationships.\u00a0 For those of you who see us rarely, it is as you know something that always weighs on me.\u00a0 It’s over 5,800 miles, nine timezones, eleven hours and thousands of dollars by plane away from many friends, and a mere 3,500 miles, six timezones,\u00a0 and thousands of dollars from most of our family. So here is a bit of an update as to what is new with us, just in case we don’t see you anytime soon.<\/p>\n

The most important aspect of our lives is obviously our daughter, and from the picture you can see isn’t a baby any more.\u00a0 The old lady is talking, walking, running, playing, counting, swimming, and doing many new things every day.\u00a0 I’d like to take credit but she is doing most of the work. Joanna’s current favorite books include various illustrated adventures of Winnie the Pooh & Friends as well as Curious George.\u00a0 Marcus Pfister books are also a hit.\u00a0 This is the extent of my reading, generally.<\/p>\n

Switzerland is not without its charms and benefits.\u00a0 There is a functioning health care and social security system, they have world reknown public transportation systems, and perhaps most importantly a safe and healthy environment for our daughter.\u00a0 She goes to the Kinderkrippe three times a week for six hours or so.\u00a0 Apparently<\/strong> she speaks better Schwiezert\u00fctsch than both Christine and me put together.\u00a0 That was the goal.\u00a0 Not that my german is completely ridiculous these days.<\/p>\n

Summer is finally here.\u00a0 For those of you on the East Coast it clearly came early, but for us it really arrived yesterday, when the rain finally stopped.\u00a0 Today it is partly cloudy and about 23\u00b0C (73\u00b0F) and just beautiful.\u00a0 Our local town of Wetzikon<\/a> has both an outdoor pool and a local lake that we can swim in, but for fear of repeating last year when it was just plain frigid, we belong to the indoor pool<\/a> in nearby Uster.\u00a0 Our daughter loves swimming, so much so that she has woken up from a dream crying “Swimming Nappie!”<\/p>\n

I have had a relatively light travel schedule over the last few months but that changed on the 9th of June when I went to Heidelberg, DE for an Anti-Spam conference<\/a>.\u00a0 In a few days I will go for just a few days to Hanover NH.\u00a0 When I take these trips it’s hard on Christine, so I try to keep them short.\u00a0 This is another reason why many people haven’t seen much of me lately.\u00a0 While the current plan is to be in California toward the end of September, this too is subject to change.\u00a0 It’s not for lack of wanting to see friends there, though.<\/p>\n

If you make use of Dopplr, I have started to playing around with it to update the schedule, but so far as I can tell it doesn’t do a good job of combining others’ calendars to give you a unified view of where your friends are.\u00a0 Bummer.<\/p>\n

Until next update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Distance and lack of communication takes its toll on relationships.\u00a0 For those of you who see us rarely, it is as you know something that always weighs on me.\u00a0 It’s over 5,800 miles, nine timezones, eleven hours and thousands of dollars by plane away from many friends, and a mere 3,500 miles, six timezones,\u00a0 and … Continue reading “An Update from Switzerland”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}