Due to global warming or some other unusual activity, we arrived in the Riga airport in unseasonably warm weather and the traditional gloom and precipitation of January. It’s global warming, they say. I don’t know if they’re right, but it is the fact that the weather in Latvia was no different than the weather in Chicago at our departure.
Days have been filled with completing the arrangements for Tuesday’s funeral. Things here don’t work as quick as they do in the States. More on that when I get back statewise next week.
Otherwise, I’d like to congratulate Andrios Piebalgs, an EU Energy Commissioner from Latvia, on becoming the Eurocrat of 2006, according to the Economist magazine. We’re very proud.