It occurred to me the other day that The Atherton Family Notes is actually the second blog that Sandi and I have had.  The first one was put together in mid-2002 before blogging software was widely accessible, so we used a private MSN discussion group that we christened “Survivor Germany” to write posts and send them to our friends and family.  The primary purpose of this group was to talk about the new experience we had just started– an expat assugnment in Villingen, Germany.  Later, it morphed into a message board about our second assignment in Rennes, France.
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