Doing it Basel Style...

It is 7.45 a.m. and I've been sitting here for 45 minutes listening to three guys put together my new closet (yes that's correct they arrived at 7 a.m. - nothing here happens AFTER regular working hours). Now when I say closet, I mean, basically a work of art for my clothes. For those you not familiar with the quaint way of building in Europe, you don't get closets in apartments (maybe houses if you put them in from the ground up, but not apartments). The upside is that you can pretty much put your bed anywhere. The downside is finding ones for a reasonable price that you can actually live with is next to impossible. Then you think, ok how long will I actually be here and do I need something than cost more than my first car? The how long will I actually be here is what I said when I moved to DC and that turned into almost eight years. So alas, it's what I work hard for, right? (photos to come). Oh and I went down to check on the progress, and the lead guy told me that it was damaged and someone would have to come back and replace one of the panels. At home I probably would have been fuming, here it's just not worth it since they don't give a sh+t about customer service no matter how much money you fork over. Hopefully there won't be any other damage (including walls and floors).

I was just in Barcelona for the first time on business, although we managed to squeeze in a little fun. To those of you who are aware of NYC traffic, Barcelona is WORSE. I didn't think it was possible. It's worse than NYC and it's worse than the beltway in DC. Yes worse. But the architecture is gorgeous so it made up for it the first few times I sat in a cab and moved an inch every 10 minutes. After that it just got tiresome. Also, being away from home for a week, living in a hotel, eating hotel food (although the restaurants were fantastic!), etc. does get exhausting. I actually found myself saying by day five that I couldn't wait to get home and I meant Basel (yikes!). Will post photos when I'm not half asleep. zzzzzzzzzzz