Welcome to Milwaukee

It's been a month, I should probably tell you that I survived the move.


I wouldn't say I'm settled in my new home, but I am unpacked enough that I can get things done reasonably well. And I'm keeping a running list of things I need to acquire/fix. Neither bed managed to show up in the house with all the right parts to put them together and the guest bed box spring wouldn't fit up the stairs. And I need a toaster oven. But mostly the house is good.

I wouldn't say I'm settled in the job yet either, but I did survive the first week of orientation, which was a whole lot of information that I won't remember, but do have handouts for.

As part of orientation we went on two different tours. A trolley tour where I really only took pictures of the art museum, and a boat tour where I took a bunch of pictures of the city.

At the art museum looking toward the city.

When we were driving into the city I told Karen that she's recognize the architect, and she did. 

That is a city street being lifted straight up so that we can go under it.

The older light house.

The city from the edge of the harbor.

Cormorants and Gulls, it was like a little welcome party for me.

Everyone just calls it the Calatrava, who is the architect, and I wonder if that drives the art museum folks crazy. Like, we have a name, use it. But I don't know what the name of the museum is. If it's more complicated than the Milwaukee Art Museum then they really have a marketing problem.

Driving on that bridge give you a good view of the city on the way in. The clouds give you a sense of what kind of day we had.

The outer white one is the more used lighthouse now that they built the break wall.

Had lunch here with Amanda and Daniel in my first week. It was nice to eat on the deck.