live in Switzerland now
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2008
So Jan is here finally. She arrived Thursday after an easy flight, helps that she slept 8 hours through an 8 hour and 15 minute flight. For the last couple of days we have been touring around Zurich showing her the mean streets of Switzerland, taking care of some odds and ends, and taking naps. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 25th, 2008
Jon and I have a tradition of sweet spring break road trips, and this one did not disappoint. Jon arrived from olde Britania on Wednesday night, by Friday morning we had the keys to a Skoda Octavia – one sweet piece of auto machinery. Friday we drove all over Switzerland in the rain and snow [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2008
Continuing our tour of Swiss ski resorts, Kerry and I set about the difficult decision of which place to bless with our awesome skills. This time we approached the decision in a rigorous way, taking the latest snow fall and snow depth maps from the Swiss weather service and overlaying them onto Google Earth. This [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2008
Friday I joined an undergrad field trip to the Gotthard Base Tunnel (info). The GBT is an amazing new tunneling project that when completed will be 57 km long and pass under the entire width of the Alps. There are two 9 m diameter tunnels and four active tunnel boring machines. We got a chance [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2008
Niklas and I decided to go skiing Sunday rather than go out in Zurich Saturday night – in my old age ways I decided I couldn’t do both. Kerry was going to go to some teenage rave party, but was convinced to ditch the glow sticks in favor of the new snow we expected. Andermatt [...]