I'm-a-gone

I'm off to NYC and then Italy for a whopping 3 weeks. I'll be visiting my mother's hometown, my father's father's hometown and other sites along the Apennines. I may post little items while I'm gone, but until I'm back some old entries will be appearing on The Daily Transcript.

Ciao.

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have a great trip. I greatly enjoyed my time there a couple of years ago, when I took time off to backpack across Italy. Good food, good fun.

Enjoy yourself, Alex.

I'll bet that you're worried about ditching your lab work for such a long time...