You know your life is bad when you have no time to live your life and blog !
So to make up for the lack of blogging I am going to quickly summarise the last few months
I am still alive …. Just in case your wondering.
So let’s reflect the last few months …. ( June to now )
Wisdom Teeth Out – Done ( painfully )
Braces In – Done and suffering
World Cup – Yes, yes, yes and England lost again on Penalties
Packing and Moving stuff to Ruari’s and Alan’s – Completed but what an exhausting last weekend in South Africa. YES I AM MOVING TO THE USA!!!
Panic with Visa from Home Office ( getting extension for SA and a Visa for the US ) – Done but with a few extra grey hairs and frown lines
And then what….
Well I visited the UK for about 24 hours – and of course met my Nan and cooked for Greg… ( we are still playing the game of he shops and picks random things and I hope to make a meal out of them - you could make a cooking show out of it J it really is that funny ) curry and Dr Who with John and Julia ( I LOVE Dr Who )
Then off to sunny, sticky and Hot Spain & my favourite City Barcelona.
Reason – TEAM EMEA Offsite as you know I manage a team of talented individuals from middle earth and we don’t often get together but we grabbed a 1.5 day in Spain to talk about our new business year, reflect on the old one and just mix with each other ( because they are really funny, lovely people ) . 2 of them left and the rest of us stayed and hit Barcelona touring the city everywhere Gaudi Park, the Nou Camp Stadium, the massive cathedral, the Ramblers etc we went and watch Flamingo dancers and had a fantastic time …. Yes yes yes and of course we shopped - I may have visited the Puma store !!
Then off to Orlando via New York….. Orlando Disney World …. Very funny, plastic and cheesy, I never saw Mickey the whole time too much work.
I was lucky enough to win a Microsoft Award recently so I had a cool dinner with some MS executives and 27 Alpha, v passionate, v intelligent and v shy ( not ) winners. Interesting evening and now I have to go on Holiday with them to Thailand as the main prize! ( this will be fun …. Or the death of me J )
From Orlando I flew via Houston to Seattle and now I am staying with my friend Stephen Froud ( ex MS UK ).
Seattle is having a heatwave it is officially boiling. Everyone who is normally pale and gaunt ( due to excessive PC viewing ) is now red, golden brown or lightly tanned. It is very funny seeing people in shorts and sandals plodding around campus with a laptop under their arms.
So I now have a bank account, have applied for a social security number and have a new mobile phone which will start today. Need to get my driving license, finish my tour which starts on the 18th Aug and when I come back I can look for cars – or in my case a 4x4 I want to go skiing in the winter so I need to get up mountains J