Absence makes the heart grow fonder…
and I have not posted for a long time, have I? What can I say? Work. The man is keeping me down. Agency life is challenging. It isn’t like client side where dates slip and people shrug it off. When you slip here, heads roll and while I like the pressure and the challenges, I do miss the relaxing pace and 8 hour days. Oh well, right? The good news is that I live walking distance from work and I do enjoy it (mostly), and …

Baby Sutton and I have arrived safely in London. The flight was pretty fast – we actually  got in a little earlier than expected, and it lasted only about 9 hours. Really not too bad for door to door service.
Naturally, when on I got on board, there was a very elderly man sitting in my seat, which seems to happen pretty much every time I travel with an assigned seat. Usually I just suck it up an sit in the middle seat (trying to be respectful of the fact that …

Just ONE simple rule*, and yet, every day, you have to do battle with some moron who just doesn’t get it. First some background. London’s Tube stations are underground (I think that’s where they got the term, The Underground). Sometimes, these stations are really really deep – maybe 65 meters underground. So if you want to board them you have to take stairs or an escalator. Often, you will get off one Line, and have to switch to a different Line, and then go down deeper, or go up, etc… …

After finally finding a place to live this week, I settled in to….. find a place to live. Michael and I looked at the living space we are allotting ourselves with my chosen flat, and we think it might just be too small. Especially since we plan to have LOTS of guests (Right???). So set out to find something better. It is an arduous process because you never know what you’re going to find on the other end, and it involves a lot of walking, and frequently, you get a …

Friday, July 4th my flight departs from Phoenix, AZ. Jen has already been over in London for a month or so, but now it is starting to materialize for me. My Visa came on Friday, and now I am spending the weekend deciding what goes, what stays and what gets put in boxes for possible shipping at a future date. It is a moment where I reflect and wonder (albeit prematurely) how long it will be once I leave before I am back. What terms will I be back on, …

Yesterday I went out with my fancy French friends to brunch around 3pm. Brunch, by the way, consists of a meat or veggie option of the same dish. My veggie version contained 2 eggs, sunny side up, 4 triangles of buttered toast, beans, crispy mushrooms, some kind of mashed potato thing, and about 10 slices of broiled cheese. It was good, but really greasy and filling. I could only eat about half. I would KILL for a pancake right now.
After brunch we went home for a little rest to get …

A little dinner and dominoes over at Mom and Dad’s tonight. We spent some time together since we won’t be seeing a lot of each other pretty soon. It was nice to just relax and chat and fix the Palm not syncing problem. What are these people going to do when I am gone? Oh, they’ll be just fine.
Dad and I went and saw the Hulk after mom went to bed, and we both agreed, it was better than expected, intense and pretty awesome. At first I …

And the way you can tell is that she created a WeeMee. I have to admit, they are pretty cute/clever. I’ll be curious to see how it plays out for them. If you want to make one, just click mine below and it will take you to the site.

My Visa application is finally in progress and my biometrics appointment is Friday. What all of that means is that it is time to really get serious about closing things out here and preparing to join Jen, who found a flat today …

Yesterday morning I had decided to go see the Trooping the Colour Parade, but then I realized that it would me going and battling 100s of millions of wild eyed Brits, aching for a view of the Queen. And I realized that if I could be transported over to a prime seat, I would probably go, but since I had seen the parade just last week and I have seen pictures of the Queen, and I have an imagination, and I am extraordinarily suggestable, by next, I’ll think I saw …

That’s right, Julie has it down. Sure she seems all innocent and sweet, and being demure may lend itself to that, but nope she takes my money when I’m in need (in video games). You see her and Rowdy and I played some Everquest type multiplayer game last night where you can be warriors, clerics, elves, etc. Julie employed her take the toughest guy available, kick the crap out of everyone, and then grab all the treasure before anyone else strategy. Now I’ve realized that Rowdy and I have the …