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I've given in...

Ok, Beth finally talked me into starting my own blog. She's set quite the high standard with her blog and I'm not sure how well I'll keep up with this, but there are some things I know I want to post to share with my family and friends.

Friday I go out of the country for almost 2 weeks. I fly direct to Tokyo on Friday (14 hours, but First Class!!!), spend the weekend in Tokyo seeing the sites, then fly to Vietnam on Monday for 10 days.

Why Vietnam? Well, it's for work. I have a team of software developers at our facility in Vietnam and I haven't even met most of them yet. I'm going with Scott , the BA on my project, and two customers.

Keep an eye on this page...I'll try to post pictures from Tokyo and Vietnam every day or two so that I don't forget what I saw and where I was. I want to use this site to document the experience.

To help on the voyage, I bought a new digital camera. It's a Nikon Coolpix 4600. I was going to take Beth's camera, but it's really expensive and she'd kill me if I lost it. This one is much smaller and more convenient for the trip.

Wish me luck, and wish Beth luck with the kids while I'm gone.

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  1. AnonymousNovember 23, 2005 at 11:32 PM

    Andy K.

    Have a great time on your trip to the Orient - I suspect it will be wonderous.

    All is the same here with my biggest news being that I have taken over the number 1 poll position among all faculty on the bench press - my PR is now 300 el bees and working to my ultimate goal of 315.

    Have a great trip.

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