So Far

Here's the farthest I've been, so far, in each direction:

N: Arlanda Airport, Sweden (59.6 N)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=59.650571,17.932777&z=13

E: Central Station, Stockholm, Sweden (18.0 E)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=59.33013,18.058283&z=17

S: Caracas, Venezuela (10.5 N)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=10.501821,-66.912746&z=15

W: Kansai Airport, Japan (135.2 E)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.4347,135.244703&z=13

Burning Piano

Saw this on Euronews yesterday. Pianist Yosuke Yamashita plays a burning piano. He wears a protective suit and just keeps playing until the piano won't play anymore. Disturbing.

Jamaica

My sister Paisley writes about our family vacation in Jamaica. We spent a week at a house on Discovery Bay, on the north side of the island.

My favorite parts of the vacation included:

• Being with my sisters and their families
• Watching Maria and our kids enjoy the sun, sand and water
• The food
• The massage
• Not thinking about work (OK, hardly thinking about work) for an entire week
• Visiting the Bob Marley mausoleum
• The exchange rate (Bag of Doritos? 274 dollars!)

It was an amazing time, and quite a shock to go from swim trunks yesterday back to snow shoveling today.