Family Life

My flight from Frankfurt was held up for five minutes while they got somebody from maintenance to come and make an adjustment to one of the cockpit instruments. Because of that brief delay the plane missed its departure slot, and we sat on the ground and waited for an hour before the control tower gave [...]

So I’m stuck in yet another hotel room. I’d been so looking forward to getting home, too. The plan was to arrive home this afternoon, changing planes in Frankfurt along the way. Instead, I got to look out the terminal window as my plane pushed back from the jetway on its way home without me. [...]

The day broke dark and gloomy, windy and cold and raining. That’s OK. I’m leaving. I was in no particular hurry. My only task for the day was to drive from Gy?r to Budapest, all of one and a half hours. I anticipated a relaxed Saturday: a leisurely breakfast, unhurried packing, an easy drive on [...]

Work got off to a slow start this week, but we’ve now hit our stride and it’s all going full steam ahead. Too bad it’s Thursday and my week is over tomorrow. Still, I’ve accomplished most of what I came to do, so it has been a successful week after all. I’ve been drinking copious [...]

I received another lesson in Hungarian today. A standard greeting ends in “eshti”, which is the “And You” part of “How are you today?” “Fine. And you?” You have to be careful not to say “ashti”, which roughly means “Be nice to me (or else)”. The French guys told me that the French expression for [...]