John & Colette's Adventures

A nice list of things made in the USA. http://www.acontinuouslean.com/the-american-list/

Colette & I were complaining about Oxford St in London. Well, it appears we're not the only ones.  Merchants want to add "Tourist Lane" to the sidewalks. Read it here.

Colette’s notes from our trip.

We got back from our London & Paris Anniversary/Birthday Bash Extravaganza Monday. We had a fabulous time. Colette is busy writing up the day by day diary. I've been putting together the photos. It'll all come up soon.   See photos here

Maurice sat at the cafe table drumming his fingers. He had arrived an hour early in anticipation and passed the time over a couple cups of coffee. Now he was jittery and impatient. She should be here soon, he thought, glancing at his watch once again. Time never seemed to move when he waited for [...]

I built a couple shelves so I can stand up and work. It's supposed to be better for you than sitting on your butt all day.  I just used random scrap wood so looks aren't that great. Some early observations: I need to angle the keyboard so the back is lower than the front. The [...]

I send a bi-weekly invoice to our office manager and I've gotten bored with the standard email so a few months ago I started writing silly messages. Here's this week's: We find our brave engineer on the outskirts of a small town in northern New England. He's holed up in a small, but comfortable, cape [...]

The car has been acting up lately. We would get into the car and couldn’t turn it on when using the keyless ignition. We’d just get the blinking red key symbol. Replacing the batteries in the fobs had no effect. It was quite annoying! Yesterday I took it into the Nissan dealer and after about [...]

I’ve uploaded some photos from our last trip with Globus & Cosmos (where Colette worked while we were in Denver) to the Canadian Rockies. It was an excellent trip from Calgary through Banff and on to Vancouver. Click here to go see the mountains.

Forgot to include that we had Jacque & Terry & Alex visit us for about a week. We met up with them in Boston and spent a couple days down there playing tourists. We then took Amtrak back up to Portland and introduced them to Maine – “the way life should be” (must be true [...]