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<\/a>Steve<\/a><\/b> is in town for most of September, so it is cool that he is back again! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAnd of course, there have been some lowlights as well, including:<\/p>\n
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- We are scheduled to have a corporate audit in October, and it seems that they are stacking the deck against us in particular ways <\/li>\n
- At one point, my manager suggested my assignment to live in Sweden was danger, but we cleared that up within a day <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
So if I don’t always respond right away for a while, you know why!<\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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! … Continue reading What A Strange Long, Trip It’s Been…<\/span>