It’s 07.00 CET on Friday morning…

So I haven’t been posting as regularly as I should. That’s being our organisation is being audited beginning next week, and it has been such an effort to get ready and prepare.

I was really tired on Thursday night and slept through everything, including 6 phone calls. I fell asleep on the couch. It was Steve’s last night here in Stockholm and I was supposed to go out with him. I feel bad that I missed his last night out, and even more bad because one of my closest friends has been here for 3 weeks and now he will be gone…I’ll lose that link I had back to someone in the states.

I fell asleep and left the stove on….I woke up because I had trouble due to breathing in the fumes. I could have probably almost died.

I’m kinda sad and I don’t know why just yet, but it’s time to go to work. I’ll have time for being sad later…

Oh yeah, and when you get the chance, go see The Italian Job. It’s a really nice movie.

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