John & Colette’s Adventures

Colette has run into some bad luck trying to get back to Australia. She had a Qantas flight from NYC/JFK to Sydney leaving about 7:30 pm Wednesday. We booked her a JetBlue flight to JFK leaving Rochester about 12:30. That gave everyone 7 hours to get her down to New York and onto the Qantas [...]

Today’s big news, of course, is the bombing in London. On a purely personal note, it was rather amazing that 20 minutes after I found out (about 8:30 pm) I was talking to Colette who’s in Rochester on the phone and we were both watching television coverage. It’s just incredible that 2 people in different [...]

Using Google Earth, I have discovered it is 9745.54 miles between where we lived in Cumberland Maine and where we live now. That’s 9,216,082.49 smoots or 1,568,392,916.89 Centimeters!!! Google Earth is our new favorite toy at work. It’s a great way to waste time.