Post Easter Fun

And another Easter has come and passed... Hopefully the Easter Bunny was nice to everyone!

Easter in Iowa was a good time. Sarah was able to join us, as was Grams. I think I have Grams's approval with the "new" girlfriend;) We dyed some eggs (a lot more colors available than when I was 8 years old) and even had a visit by the Easter Bunny!

Taiwan Travel Update: Now planning on flying across the pond on April 3rd. I have the big details figured out - now have a better Taiwan map which shows me my hotel (and other things to see in Taipei). I still need to figure out how to get to the IBM facility but I have 2 weeks to figure that out! But basically I'm back to a 10 day agenda for Rochester.

Speaking of flying - here's a cool webpage to help you decide where to book your seat on a plane: Seat Guru is a service that allows you to look up the plane by airline (even some flight numbers) and then gives comments on the different seating options on a plane. It's nice for international flights when one is trying to find a DC outlet, or if one wants to avoid the smelly bathrooms on an international 14 hour flight!! Bookmark it and use it whenever!

An interesting first weekend of the NCAA tournament. I'm in either 1st or 2nd in my 3 pools at this point with some good confidence going:) I picked Kansas to win it all, and I'm sticking with it! I'm a little disappointed in the poor showing by Drake (the only Iowa representative this year), but I'm also wondering if that is what having almost 2 weeks off does to a team?? I'm sure you could over analyze it, but I do think that having the conference tournament early like Missouri Valley Conference does.... I have 24 of the first 32 teams picked correctly, and 11 of the Sweet 16 picked correctly. 6 of my 8 still left and all 4 of my final 4 left! Not too bad this year.

Caught up on Celebrity Apprentice (although there wasn't much to this past week's episode). The final two are Trace Adkins and Piers Morgan - two different styles but both worthy of winning this thing. My money is still on Piers (as it has been ever since Gene Simmons was told to go home). I did think that the manner in which they used to dismiss Carol and Lennox was pretty dumb. Bringing in Jim Cramer is always bad for ratings in my opinion.

And finally - for the Rochester folks.... big happy hour tonight (friendly reminder)! Let me know if you need the details! Thanks again to Jen for setting it all up:)

Haiku of the Day
How's your Mandarin?
Learning by CD is hard!
Visual Learner:(

Entertainment of the Day - So with the change in itinerary, I also had a seat change on my 13 hour flight - to one that does NOT have an electrical connection:( So I'm trying to figure out what music to bring on the iPod to make the trip go by faster! I'm also going to search for "things to do" at Barnes and Noble this week. I have my Rubik's cube ready for the trip so that should entertain me for a while.

Weblink of the Day - Celebrate Easter with Strong Bad!!