So far the trip has been very busy. I will have to work some this week­end sadly, but will get out sight­see­ing as well. Also need to catch up on sleep, of which I get less every night.

Paris is good so far, and I finally under­stand the metro tran­sit sys­tem and can get around pretty well. Of course even as I say that I went 40 min­utes the wrong way on a bus last night and got home 1.5 hours later than expected. They say talk­ing on a cell phone in a vehi­cle is dan­gerou — appar­ently that goes for bus rid­ers too, since I just didn't notice that the stops we passed were the wrong way for my destination.

I put a new pro­file pic up on face­book of yesterday's out­fit. Does the creme color tie work with the orange/salmon shirt? I had a sport­coat going too which jazzed it up some more. Math­ijs, the project man­ager, com­pli­mented me on the tie. I think it worked well, or at least I find the col­ors pleas­ing. I haven't decided whether to do the pink shirt and pink tie tomor­row or Mon­day. One of the days will be a bor­ing white shirt.

oh yes, and I am busy busy busy. In my 4 trips to Paris I have never got­ten more than 6 hours of sleep in a night. The aver­age is around 3.8. I usu­ally run on pure ner­vous energy and sheer bloody-minded per­se­ver­ance. Also the days tend to be very frus­trat­ing but each lit­tle accom­plish­ment is a bump. I surf a rolling wave of lit­tle suc­cesses which gives me just enough energy to keep going.