Guus Bosman

From Durham, North Carolina, we wish you a great 2009!

- Sasha & Guus

After a wonderful wedding and honeymoon, we arrived back home.

This weekend we've gone through 700 pictures, sorting and selecting, and we're getting close to a very nice selection of pictures for the printed and online albums.

Last night Jonathan and Irena and the kids were here; to stay in style we had a Mexican dinner with Coronas.

Tomorrow morning I'm traveling back to Raleigh.

Yesterday it was very cold here, today is more bearable. I went to pick up some yogurt from a grocery store, and took a picture of this decorated house.

I worked in our headquarters in New Jersey today. When I'm here my calendar is always packed with meetings; today I was in the office from 8.30 am to 7.00 pm. I'm staying until Wednesday morning.

I'm staying in the Holiday Inn, and they've made some nice changes. I received a bottle of water and a power bar when I checked in (smart choices -- they must realize nowadays that most business traveler's don't care for unhealthy cookies so much), but most of all there's coffee in the lobby now. That saves me a trip to the Starbucks down the road. I don't drink much Starbucks during the week anymore, but when I'm on the road I allow myself some luxury.

Tomorrow morning I'm taking the 6.55 am flight to Newark, NJ. I need to be in New Jersey Monday morning early, and the early flight on Sunday is a lot cheaper than other flights, later in the day.

I'll meet up with colleagues in the evening, but I have the entire day for myself, so I hope to go back to the Metropolitan, and in the afternoon visit the Frick Collection.

Last year Kiss FM, one of the stations that we have programmed in the car, started broadcasting Christmas music mid-November.

This year the station changed format and no longer has the non-stop Christmas music, but I found another station that provides "holidays immersion", at 99.5 FM.

We had a wonderful time in the National Gallery today; great art.

Now we're going back home. There is a lot of traffic where 495 merges with 95.