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Sandy’s Travel Blog #4: Homeward Bound
I’m sitting in the airport more than ready for the homebound trip. Portland has been as refreshingly verdant, cool and overcast as ever and has once more, however brief, provided a lovely and productive visit with some lovely folks. The sole purpose of this jog was to visit Allegro Media‘s enormous and super efficient head-offices…
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Sandy’s Travel Blog #3 — From Fort Worth to NYC to Portland!
The muggy thundery weather that greeted my on my arrival in DFW soon gave way to a gorgeous late-spring evening. By the time David Weuste and his lovely wife Emily had picked me up at my hotel and navigated the dense and hair-raising traffic from the mid-cities to downtown Fort Worth, it had set up…
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Sandy’s Travel Blog #2 — From the Klein Competition to Fort Worth
Wrapping up the Klein competition on Sunday afternoon was a nerve-wracking experience. The final round in SFSU’s Knuth Hall was attended by a capacity crowd of enthusiasts, supporters, disappointed but well-wishing semi-finalists and in many cases family members too. The sequence of performances, drawn by ballot yielded two cellists before a brief intermission and the…
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Sandy’s Travel Blog #1
The ASQ is taking a week off from our summer routine. There’ll be some sacrosanct vacation time with families coming later in July and August but for the meantime, we are taking a little time out for some “rebooting.” Paul has left to spend a week in Florida with his family and to be with…