Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Day 1 musings


Some random observations from our first day
  • Flying from Orlando to Dublin was much nicer than Portland to Dublin. The flight is shorter and it is much easier to get to sleep on a normal schedule (the downside while you go to bed early you get woken up early)
  • Swimming caps- second trip to Ireland with the kids. Al the pools require swimming caps. Does this keep pools significantly cleaner?
  • Murphy's law always applies- found a random seam of wetness in our shipping container. About 5 boxes out of 40 affected. That in itself wouldn't be okay but of course the targeted boxes were files and photos....
  • Scheduled multiple things  on our first day in series (pick up keys, setup utilities, movers), but of course movers arrived late so it all tried to occur at the same time
  • Driving challenges
    • GPS issues - phone needed to be reactivated and car GPS not working
    • manual transmission - 
      • reverse- couldn't figure out reverse until we read the manual. After that not too bad. 
      • phantom limb shifting- occasional tendency to try and shift on the side with no gear
that's it for now

Rob

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