My Morning Photo...

Oh... so nice to ride a bicycle early in the morning even though it's -2 Celsius. It is sooooo energizing!

Our Week In Carpathian Mountains

I just returned back from Carpathian Mountains, near village of Polyana, very nice place. We (my wife and parents) spent a great week, visited a couple of beautiful places ("Palanok" Castle in Mukachevo, "Synevir" Lake etc). We were even fishing (unexpectedly), my father really had a good catch which was grilled and eaten immediately. Awesome!

Godfather...

Last week I was in Carpathian mountains. In short, I have godchild now, his name's Ivan. Nice little boy - a future of Ukraine. No kidding.

Trip to Boyarka

Yesterday (Jul 10, 2011) we had awesome trip to Boyarka and other villages SW from Kiev. That was terrific. Even though I feel pretty exhausted after riding a bicycle thru fields and woods, up and down... nevertheless that was awesome!!..


View Boyarka - Bicycle Tour in a larger map

The three of us were time-proven team since 2006 so it was good match for this ride. Roman and OG, I believe, felt happy and exhausted too :)









Roman, all in white and glowing...




OG, struggling thru the forest...








World War II pillbox...

Kiev... Few moments ago

Hack: When "Magnetic" Is Not Enough

I have my good old MacBook Pro which would be still very good to use at home if not this problem that occurred when I lost the battery: every time the connector is slightly touched/pooled/pushed everything goes bananas and you have to start up the system again. I was thinking about solution to this but only 2 days back I decided to finally do it. Here's the solution (and it works!):

Pair Programming With "Kuzya"

She is soooo funny!.. Every time I start working on something and fire up my laptop - she's immediately there. They say that these "Oriental" cats are very "social". But I didn't expect they were sooo social. :) Anyways, she's smart and funny.

Chicago

I spent last week in Chicago. It was my first visit and indeed this is an amazing city. I was staying downtown Chicago on North Michigan Avenue so it's basically few steps from the Magnificent Mile. Chicago's nice. The architecture is amazing. I was on my agile training/coaching mission for a big (yet internationally distributed) company, and almost every morning walked to their office on my own. Every morning I had this terrific view of amazing buildings, and in the evenings this was all different view, full of artificial light. I even found Orthodox Church in 15 minute walk from my hotel so I could go for Sunday Liturgy. One interesting thing about Orthodox Churches all over the world - in different countries they all look different from the outside but when you enter it feels as if you entered your church in Kiev. Trans-geographic, trans-time...

Uh... and Goose Island is pretty good (local) beer. No way I would say that it's better than my favorite beer ever - Sam Adams - but it's still very good one :)