With Facebook being so easy for doing instant updates, I find it difficult to keep up to date on the blog, especially during big life changes. My family departed Baku, Azerbaijan in July. We spent a month and a half in Beloit, Wisconsin helping our eldest son Anton get settled into this freshman year at Beloit College. Follow the progress of his new rock band
Tortuga on Facebook!
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| Goodbye lunch for Anton |
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| Anton quickly met some musicians at the college and formed a band called Tortuga |
Sadly leaving Anton behind for the first time in our lives, we went on to Washington DC for a week before heading for my new posting in Nassau, Bahamas. It has already been an interesting couple of months here.
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| Typical view on New Providence, Bahamas |
First we had the biggest hurricane in living memory hit us. Hurricane Matthew was Category 4 when it struck Nassau. I lived in my office for four days, which wasn't fun. Our house was mostly okay, except for the back yard and having to throw most of our cold/frozen food away.
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| The hurricane left downed trees and power lines all over |
Then I played in the Fall Classic chess tournament, which was a qualifier for the national championships. I took 2nd place and qualified, so this coming weekend I'll be starting the double round-robin National Championships of the Bahamas.Wish me luck!
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| Playing in the Fall Classic 2016 |
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That's awesome, Ted!
ReplyDeleteWow, lots of changes. Sorry, not on Facebook, so updates here appreciated.
Matthew really messed with our state, causing record flooding. Fortunately, we were fine.
Sorry you aren't on FB. I find it hard to post on the blog mostly because it feels repetitive to what I already post over there. But I'll try to keep this going!
DeleteThe Bahamas? You lucky dog. Just started reading your book, btw...Enjoy the warm weather :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, it has some charms here. Thanks for trying one of my books. Since I don't push them much, I don't actually get much in the way of sales these days.
DeleteEvery time the radio brings up the growing list of vacancies at the state department, I think to myself, I really need to look up Ted and see if he stayed on. I know you were having some thoughts when you were in the Czech Republic being an extra on Die Hard. I hope Nassau has been treating you well despite the hurricane and that life in the knew posting is a positive one. Hope you've been well!
ReplyDeleteI tried finding you on Facebook once but couldn't. I'm still in the Department because I'm too close to earning a pension to be able to leave. It was Budapest where I did some extra work, in Die Hard and a much better once--The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
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