I'm at Heathrow....waiting for my flight in the American Airlines lounge. On the one hand, I'm glad that they have some public access computers with internet access. On the other hand, they are all hardcoded to use MS Internet Explorer in brain–dead mode, eg you cannot cut and paste a URL, most URLs I type in are rejected as host not found yet if I click on the same URL off a web page it navigates quite fine.

This is, I think, the first time I've been at LHR without my own laptop. I don't really need one here...I'm not working and no one is trying to reach me to complain about getting a URL redirect or that the ibm.com search engine is down. However, I do have several hours to kill and had absolutely no interest in sight seeing in London, and did my tour of duty free shops with only a couple of bags of Smith's crisps to show for it.

So...I arrive in the US later tonight, am hoping to get in in time to retrieve Frisket from Monstermutt but that is highly unlikely unless the travel gods are with me and look down with kindness as I try to make it from JFK to downtown Brooklyn in under 30 minutes.

Paris was lovely, wish I could spend more time there. Also wish that I had converted dollars to euros when the exchange rate was USD$1.00 = EUR€0.83. The exchange rate was a tad painful, though less so than the UK/US exchange rate currently is. I have some more pictures from ambling about yesterday which I'll post on returning home. Lisa is stuck at IBM's Tour Descartes in La Defense for meetings this week. Hopefully they have banned indoor smoking since I last was imprisoned at La Defense.