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September 23, 2005

The Government Ate My Homework

So good to be home, at least for a while. Now to plow through 2k unread blog posts and get back to working in real-time. Was going to go to Skype night (I'm sure others will cover it) in Palo Alto last night, but the entire family crashed after our flight from London. Uploaded my last trip pics.

The funniest calamity about our trip to Estonia was how my daughter lost her homework in customs. We had it FedExed, with a customs declaration of $30 and description as 3rd grader homework. But customs held it up due to the valuation, FedEx didn't contact us, we wrangled with bureaucracy and ended up negotiating if we should pay a $100 customs fee on top of the $100 to ship it during our last day there. At least my daughter gets to say that the government ate her homework.

Oh, and I turned 35 today. I think I'll celebrate middle age with a nap.

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