Since tracking my tasks in myTo-Do list this year, I can see that I have 387 tasks assigned so far and by the end of the year I will have completed all but one of them. I am angry at myself for failing. Grrrrr….,

Whatever the fuck that means.

Basically, I bought a service called Ring Central, which gives me an toll free number that can be used to contact me anywhere since it forwards to my US mobile. It also provides me with a fax and a call answering service and the ability to manage this all via the internet or a small java application.

Honestly, I don’t actually need all of these bells and whistles. What happened is that I used to have a free e-fax account. And the Terms of Use, which I have not read since I have owned the free e-fax number since 1999 says that I am only allowed 20 pages a month to keep the account free. This month, for the first time ever, I went over to 21 pages because someone had to re-send two faxes seperate faxes that were only partially transmitted.

However, rather than give a warning period, e-fax was adamant that the only way to keep my free number was in fact to pay for it at 12.95 a month. Or I could get a unifed telecom package with Ring Central for 9.95a month. If e-fax had been a little more reasonable in their response (they basically yelled at me in e-mail), I would have gladly considered paying the monthly charge as loads of people have my personal fax number. But with their attitude, it made keeping the number impossible. So they lost me as a customer.

And I must say that I am pretty pleased with how it is all going. I can have up to 4 extensions. And the service puts you on hold whilst i decide whether or not to take your call.

Too bad I hardly ever use my US mobile phone for actually calling people. But hey, at least I got the faxing out of it. Yay pour moi.

I am one of the slow ones, but I just started using RSS feeds yesterday. Steve showed them to me. They are crazy.

Today is Thursday and it is only one more day until the weekend. I can’t wait. Been too long since I have been partying in Stockholm. OK, so it’s only been about 2 weeks, but that is not the point! I am ready to have some fun! 🙂

And the song I am listening to now puts me in the party mood. I might not be able to wait until Friday!

So this is my first full day back in Sweden after going back to the US. I have to say that this trip was more fun, more strange, more exciting, more everything than last time.

When I arrived on Tuesday, 23 November, I had a series of medical appointments which I had to attend. Got those out of the way and that was good. Did some relaxing and sleeping. On Wednesday, went around and did all of the errands that I never get a chance to do because I put them off until the last minute. On Thursday, spent the day with my family. On Friday, flew down to Atlanta and had a great weekend. A strange weekend. But so much fun that I was sad to leave on Sunday. On Sunday, weather delayed my ability to get make my flight back to Stockholm via London, so American Airlines put me up in a hotel and gave me money for food.

Took the flight the next day out and got back on Tuesday. Good stuff. Good vacation. Now I need a vacation from my vacation! 🙂

Well…it has been an exhausting 7 days. I am too tired to go into details as I have still not completed the trip home. I am waiting for my connecting fkight in London. But I promise updates ASAP…I need some recovery time first! 😉