{"id":481,"date":"2007-12-16T19:04:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T19:04:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T19:04:14","slug":"its-that-time-of-year-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newkai.com\/2007\/its-that-time-of-year-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s That Time of Year Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How is it already Mid-December again? In any case, I’m four days away from flying out to Vienna, and could not be looking forward to it more.<\/p>\n

Yesterday afternoon I picked up the last piece of paper I need to be able to enjoy Vienna fully, the\u00a0International Driving Permit<\/a>. Apparently Austria is one of only a few countries in Europe to require this pamphlet, which simply translates credentials in a dozen or so languages. As with Time Warner Cable, there is only one AAA in all of Brooklyn, at the opposite corner from me, in\u00a0 Flatlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last Thursday I also picked up a new Austrian passport. If I hadn’t, I would have been stuck in Austria, as the old one expired mid-vacation.<\/p>\n

I fly out Thursday night after work, utilizing Emirates to Hamburg and then continuing on to Vienna with Air Berlin. Rather exotic, but the price was right.<\/p>\n

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