Car Care in Belgium

This is who we use:
Carrosserie Wilikens A BVBA op goudengids.be
Takes care of our VW and our Opel. We stopped in yesterday needing a fuse, and he replaced it immediately and charged us a Euro.

Sullivan has a feature called The View From Your Window (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-view-from-7.html) which I like. This is a view from our kitchen window.

Local News

http://www.lesoir.be/
Here's a link to the local news. We missed la Gordel, yesterday, a ride around Brussels.

What has been happening

I have to admit I have been caught up in the drama of the Republican convention the last few days, and working (at home) in Brussels.  Working at home has gone relatively smoothly.  My wife, who has been here for awhile, upgraded our home access to the Internet to the 'business' level, and it has been very fluid.  Combined with a suggestion from someone in my London office to back everything up on a portable drive and bringing it along (everything I had stored on the office network), this has been easy.

In New Providence, in Neew Jersrey, where I used to work from, the problem (and the good thing) was that my boss, and most of the people I work closely with, were based in London.  So there was limited access but they also went home at Noon (New Jersey time), so I could focus on what I needed to do in the afternoons.  Now, I'm in communication with them all day, and the people I still work with in the states are working late into the evening (according to my clock here in Brussels).  One day this week I was goiing late into the evening here.  

So the Blog fell off. 

But what has been happenening:

I got a new chip for my cell phone, so now I have a number here.

We went out to dinner at Mai-Tai, a Thai restaurant in Wezembeek-Oppen.

We had a new battery installed in the Opel.

I was in-processed by the HR department.

I found my way to Diagem and picked up a pacckage that came from DHL.

I won't quote the email from a friend who said something nice because I managed to get 1 sentence out of 2 in a French that didn't need to be rewritten.

So there.

The sky is so threatening today. I have a feeling this is going to be what a lot of skies are going to look like.

What so you see on the way to your door

Kathy insists she's going to put up a "Snail Crossing" sign, and is very protective of these creatures that share our walkway. This guy (girl?) must be 3 inches long.

Later when we walked out of the movie, we were greeted by this sight, the Atomium at night. "It looks transparent," said Kathy, my wife.