Living through the morning after the night before.

looks like all my ladies have their evenings well in progress. Eloise is hosting a party at home. I will be discrete.

Back in Paris. Went out for dinner then watched movie. Today Cynthia is twenty. Happy Birthday Cynthia!

It's snowing. Half an hour from Paris.

We are driving back to Paris. Bye bye Capons.

We've finished lunch at the original Leon de Bruxelles, now almost finished shopping.

Visiting apartments in Brussels - that our friends the Capons might move into. Also nice way to explore a city.

Eating very slow breaksat. Talkinh with James and Ann. Daughters waking up slowly.

Good morning Bruxelles. Clear and quite cold.

We had such a lovely dinner. Put two families together and, presto, you have a party. Good night from Bruxelles.

at the Capons. All 10 of us have known each other for 16 years. 160 years of friendship. not bad.

Finished lunch. back on the A7 on our way to the Capon's house.

Stopping for lunch at 18th C restaurant at Le Roeulx.

Visiting the world's highest ship elevator - 73 meters high.

Driving past Cambrai - famous for the treaty of northern countries against Venice.

Five of us in the car. We are driving north through Paris.

Isabelle made crepes for breakfast. Eloise's friend Marion spent the night. Now packing for our trip to Brussels.

Time to say goodnight.

Lunch at "La Comedia" - our local. Dinner at home - finishing all our leftovers - foi gras, salmon, turkey, Champagne, whatever.

Home from seeing a delightful musical and a digestif at the Cafe de la Paix.

Sitting in the theater. Curtain about to go up.

Finished a light supper (turkey bouillon etc). Going to see a play.

Back from a little walk in Paris - very sunny very cold. Had lunch with Cynthia at Zanga on rue d'Daguerre.

has eaten foie gras, turkey, brussel sprouts, chestnut puree, sweet potato & marshmallow, mashed potato, salad & cheeses & a 'charlotte'

Went to early "Midnight Mass" at Eglise St Germain. Arrived late but Church only quarter full. It was mass in Spanish. Randomly so intimate.

Just bought four bottles of Champagne. and a box of chocolates for my former wife.

Good morning Paris. Good morning Christmas Eve Day. Good morning all my ladies together with me. Good morning happy.

Enjoyed the baked apples we had for desert

Listening to my ladies prepare dinner - chop, chop, chop - lentils and Morteau sausage.

Waking up after a long winter's nap in Paris.

is eating lunch with his ladies

Riding the RER to Paris. One or more daughters will meet me at DenfertIRochereau station to help with bags. It's their presents after all.

Arrived safely in Paris

Sitting on the plane. Waiting to take off for Paris.

Just landed in Salt Lake City. Yay! Looks v cold.

On the plane. To Salt Lake City. First ever visit to Utah. We should be leaving in a few minutes - on time.

Eating lunch at Perry's at SFO. I nearly got everything done that I should have before leaving.

h ome after last minute errands and a glass of Christmas Champagne with cousin Diana at winebarsf.com.

Last day before going to Paris. Let me count the number of things I have to do. No, that would take all day.

a quiet day working at home - except for a super effective Christmas present buying spree,

Home after a pork tenderloin and marrowfat peas at the Doyles. What could be better? A glass of grappa? We had that too...

scanning paper and scanning more paper. Everything must be digital.

Walking home through an electric city.

At Varnish off Second St. Why are they going to tear these places down? Art. Alcohol. Ambiance. What more could you want?

Sitting under a big bold blue sky - a bit chilly though.

Woke up at 6:45. Looked out the window and saw a beautiful bolt of lightning. It was electrifying. Later: went Swimming In The Rain.

I am back from dinner

Just back from dinner at Max's (fulll of young ladies & families dining before seeing the SF Ballet's Nutcracker) with Bill and Merle.

playing with Twitter.com. Installed TweetDeck. Adding more people to follow.

Searched Twitter for "Shorty Award": http://tinyurl.com/6df9hj

Back from dinner with Diana at Wine and Osha Embarcadero.

my archive of 3.5 million computer files is starting to behave itself again - at last.

testing ping.fm

testing ping.fm

Going out to dine with the Doyles tonight. Now bashing my head trying to synchronize 3.5 million files on 5 machines and many hard drives.

Must help Cynthia with her paper on EU & Turkey

Two Weeks until Paris

Two weeks until I go to Paris. The race is on. How much can I get done before I have to start getting ready to go? How much more weight can I lose to make up for what I will gain? And will I be able to balance all the holiday season events with both of these?

And then, can I do something about my email situation? Over 170 emails in my inbox. Some have been there for MONTHS! Yikes.

back from my monday swim. so many things to do. so little time for each.

I hope to have a quiet day at home getting things done.

on bus returning to San Francsco after daytrip to Santa Cruz. Cynthia shared a very private moment dinner with Chapgiers saw Dylan's film