they're on their way home...

[jay]

I'm back from dropping sarahh, dawnd and my beloved patgreene at Sevilla train station. Returning here in time to help the rest of my team finish last-minute packing and then send them off... JO, DN are going overnight with SS to Faro, Portugal. So this morning I led and was part of a group of eight on a successful project -- now I'm figuratively here alone as a lab assistant/sysadmin for the next week. Lonely, now. Seeing Pat off was very hard... I wish we'd had more one-on-one time on this trip.

And I wish they'd all waved. And no cuddles or hugs for another 10 days or so. Being left is always harder, IMO, than leaving (wry grin). So I coped by getting a chocolate croissant, and driving back very fast (well, 170) with the CD player turned way up. :)

Anyway, back to work... I need to brush up on this years' core spectral analysis procedures and try to put the server in the local router's DMZ...

Oh, yeah, and I got barbered in Seville. (grin).



Pat, Dawn and Sarah in Seville station...

Comments

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(hug) and it was merely 170 KPH... maybe 105 mph. Singing loudly along to GBS and Bon Jovi...

Re: and furthermore

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

you can laugh at me, but I had to do the math starting from "a 5 K is 3.1 miles".

I have only once driven over 100 MPH. In a brand-new, borrowed turbo-charged sports car. While passing a cop in order to change lanes and exit.

Re: and furthermore

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

My fastest sustained driving is 225 kph, done over periods of time in Germany in 1995 (was trying to cover Bavaria in one day)... I may have hit 235-240 briefly (this was in a rented BMW 740i ;).

Re: and furthermore

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

This would explain why you want to be an astronaut and I want to be a housecat.

Re: and furthermore

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

I'd really appreciate it if you came back in one piece. Please drive slower. I can not handle any more deaths of folks I love this yr. more hugs t

Re: and furthermore

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Cars and roads here can handle faster highway speeds... my Opel runs fine at 100 mph. But thanks for the thought.

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[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Indeed, not only can the cars and roads handle faster speeds there, but the drivers there demand them as well. They honk and tailgate if you're so rude as to drive only 20kph over the speed limit.

Which doesn't mean I wasn't tweaky when Brian was at the wheel at those speeds, too. ;^)