So it has been a long time since I last posted in the LiveJournal. Well that is not entirely true. It has just been a long time since I posted publically in my jounral, even though I have had the occasional friend-type posts in my journal.

So anyway, I hope that everyone is doing well! I myself am doing ok overall.

So, some highlights of late are that:

• I am 95% certain that I will be in New Orleans to celebrate Maha’s wedding in November!
• My company finally released the funds to pay my corporate charge card
• Steve is in town for most of September, so it is cool that he is back again!

And of course, there have been some lowlights as well, including:

• We are scheduled to have a corporate audit in October, and it seems that they are stacking the deck against us in particular ways
• At one point, my manager suggested my assignment to live in Sweden was danger, but we cleared that up within a day

Of course, there was the anniversary of September 11th, which I wanted to spend remembering friends who perished in the world trade center, but instead spent working.

So what else is really happening. Things are progressing on the relationship front — there are a couple of choices and I have already made one. I just need to make sure they feel the same way about me.

On the friends front, it seems like my Swedish friends and I are going through a rought spot. But it is not “me” vs “them” at all! In fact, it has more to do with expectations-management. But I love them just as much as I did before, so we will weather this storm just like good friends do.

And oh yeah, my work computer (an IBM Thinkpad laptop) went down on Thursday afternoon and wasn’t restored until Monday afternoon. So I had over 200 e-mails to work through, and I was sad because I thought that I had lost a lot of data. So I so concerned now that I am on the market for a 80 GB external USB drive to back up the important stuff. But in the meantime, I’ll use the CD burner on my PC to make copies of the essential files. I just need to figure out what those are. But since we are in the middle of an audit, and I just got my machine back, I need to put it off until sometimes over the weekend.

So overall, yeah that’s a lot to report. But things have been going relatively well. The next 7 weeks will be extremely busy and extremely challenging, but with family and friends around, I will get through it.

So if I don’t always respond right away for a while, you know why!

And oh yeah, I need some new pics for LiveJournal. I am getting so tired of these old ones! Any suggestions for scene or poses?

Brief Analysis

Your name of Rodney gives you a highly sensitive, idealistic, and intuitive nature. You could be expressive and creative in the arts, music, or drama. Since you are not inclined to give due consideration to practical and business matters, you could miss out on reaching a level of financial success appropriate for your efforts and abilities. You feel and sense much that you do not fully understand, and you can be deeply influenced through the thoughts of others without realizing just how you are being affected. Others are inclined to take advantage of your generosity and friendliness and then, when there is a lack of reciprocation, you can feel despondent and disillusioned. Moods are a problem as you can be highly inspired one minute, and the next become quite irritated and annoyed over some ill-timed remark or lack of consideration on the part of someone close to you.

Taken from www.kabalarians.com

I normally never agree with Slate, but this article is a pretty good reminder that why we should always honor and remember the victims (and I knew personally someone in the attacks as well) and keep our resolve to fight terror, the event needs to be about rememberance and not about Patriotism.

I am feeling so blah at the moment. I am not sure why. Hmmmm…have to think of something to cheer me up!

The workload is getting a little bit better, but there more days ahead of this aggressive and demanding schedule of work than there are behind. Hope I make it!

I still have so much to do, that I have decided that I won’t do any of it until later. Instead, I am looking at the Swedish courses that I can take. As much as I’d like to take the 4 week intensive morning courses and flex my hours for the afternoon, I really can’t afford that much time away from work.

Maybe I shall sign up for the “Swedish In A Smaller Group” course instead, which has no more than 6 people in each class. That sounds like a winner. It begins in October, so I get plenty of time to prepare.

Decisons, decisions…

Oh well, back to work!