Interesting week

Well it's been an interesting week at the office as my ceo resigned last weekend. I did manage to get a bit of press out of it myself.

Time will tell what this really means. I continue to focus on delivering an actual product, we've been unable to get anything out the door for lots of reasons. I can't do anything about any of it so best to just let things sort themselves out and go from there

I just can't think about the fact that the pound is at a rather low mark (1.48 today against the dollar) and I earn in pounds. Good thing I don't have to transfer funds back to pay US expenses right now.

hope for the future?

For today it's a great day to be a US citizen - we've sent a message that the American Dream is really alive and you need not be a wasp to get to the top. To not admit we've just put real hope into a lot of Americans is to undermine just how historical this is

The cynic side of me says somehow politics as usual will return. As an independent who has voted both republican and democratic in past years lets hope President-Elect really does move to the strong center, brings real fiscal responsibility back (as our republican administration has failed miserably at these last eight years) and does the right thing for the people. I'll gladly pay more taxes for that

It matters: As Americans we've really never been about nation building, lets just go back to having respect of each other internally and externally. The idiots of this world will continue to harm us regardless, lets live the way we want to and not let others dictate how we live

Week Four in London

I've been swamped the last few weeks and have been bad on updates. Had promised to myself I'd do more updates but I've been busy with work so twittering is about all I've had time to do.

My observations of London so far:

1. I get why there are the 'look right/look left' painted on the ground in tourist areas, but why do they exist on my street corner? No tourist is going to step off the road the wrong way here
2. The circle tube line is - well - as a friend at CBS likes to say, it has "square wheels"
3. The weather is strange. Sunny and somewhat warm to rainy and darn cold on the same day. I've had the fortune of being in London in October with snow coming down - first time in over 70 years and I was here. Feeling a bit like poester with nyc disasters ;-)
4. Why would one order a 'half pint' of ale? Brings to mind little house on the prairie.

Fair enough, that's all being petty so lets move on. In all honesty I don't yet feel like I've done anything but acclimate to the time zone. Work right now is not that different from the states and my family is not here (though they came over last weekend) so it feels more like an extended business trip.

That said over time I'm sure it will dawn on me that it's really a different country, I've been warned by others to be careful not to fall into the trap of thinking things really are the same - so I try to keep the mind open.

I've started the process of looking for schools, anyone have suggestions on things to look for please advise as I've got to get this taken care of somewhat soon. Will be a driver on where we end up living