This is Thatcher Blogging

So there it is. The end. I am about to check in for my virgin Atlantic flight to Amsterdam.

Yeah!!! This morning I was standing in line more than an hour and a half to cast my vote. But it was not in vain!! I just heard confirmed that Obama will be the next president!

Having to wait in a long line is actually no surprise considering the fact that each person in San Francisco has to fill in three ballot papers. Federal, state (propositions 1 to 12) and county (city) (propositions A to V, and things like board of education) this together makes it a tough exercise to which you should not go unprepared.

One of the most important propositions in California, prop 8, which is to take away gay marriage is still undecided.

Wow! Yosemity is so close!! Friday morning cycling to work I felt the air being nice and chilly, it felt good. This prompted me to really want to go to the outdoors. A little chat with kurt (a collegue) learned me that yosemity is actually really quite close.

And so it happened that I could make this picture Sunday! I met Suzanna on the campgrounds, and we hiked up to yosemity point together.

These rocks also just beg to be climbed.

Ah, so I actually kept my beard for little over a week. This is what you get when you only shave the beard and not the moustache. When it was owee at Wolbodo I did not quite have the guts to grow this moustache, but hey. Better late then never.

Ah, I had such a great dinner tonight! At wendy’s they have such intelligent people behind the counter. And besides, their burgers are square and you can choose for baked potato instead of fries.

Just wonderful! And all you need when you are working late.

This weekend was loveFest! That was a lot of fun I can tell you.

I am very happy that I can now at least actually help in preventing greater peril to happen!

I can vote for Obama!

This is Nora, I met her the previous time I was in San Francisco.