Adaptive Path's UX Intensive workshop series kicked off in Amsterdam yesterday. It's going great so far. Brandon rocked the house on Monday and Todd is doing great so far today. Tomorrow is Dan and then I go on Thursday for the day of Information Architecture.
Amsterdam is a neat city. I'm really enjoying what I've seen so far. I left San Francisco on Sat afternoon and got here on Sunday. I managed somehow to stay up until after 11 pm local time Sunday night. (Photos of my wanderings with Dan are now up on Flickr.) We had a great dinner and then Bryan surprised us all with a personal canal cruise in a boat from the 1930's. Nick was able to join us for dinner and the cruise. It was so much fun!
It made it a bit hard to get up Monday morning. By the afternoon I was feeling pretty tired and sick. Ended up ducking out and going back to the hotel. I slept until about 7 and went back to bed around 10. All in all slept for about 11 hours. Needless to stay, I'm feeling much better today. But I'm still glad that I have another day to adjust before I go on.
E arrives on Thursday and I can't wait for him to get here. I miss him a lot and can't wait to go exploring with him.
*sigh*
Today I read "Moscow could aim nuclear weapons at targets in Europe as part of "retaliatory steps" if Washington proceeds with building a missile defense system on the continent, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday," from this CNN article.
WTF? I thought The Cold War was over? Didn't we already do this dance once?
This weekend E and I watched 13 Days, which is about the Cuban missle crisis. The movie was okay, assuming your could block out Kevin Costner's horrible Boston accent.
All I could think though, as we were watching it, was that if Bush had been president then instead of JFK, we would have bombed the hell out of Cuba. And god only knows where we'd be now (or if we'd be here at all).
It's all so fucking depressing and infurriating at the same time.