Goodbye 2008

Few more hours and 2008 is soon over. 2008 was an interesting year for a lot of reasons, but in general hoping that 2009 turns out to be better than 2008 was.

Financially hoping that we at least stop hemorrhaging value in things like IRAs, 529s, home equity, etc. Did everything right but the portfolio is not what it was at the start of the year.

Will see how the career side shapes up - will see what happens in the next few weeks regarding kangaroo's regulatory hurdles.

Wrapping up the year

It's that time of the year, wrapping up all sorts of stuff so can start off 'fresh' as of January. Given we are not live yet, and due to the way the holiday calendar looks we are closing down the office for two weeks. We've been all out trying to get stuff working, I know everyone in the office will be happy to have some down time. I'll still have stuff to do, but all of it can be done remotely.

I'm back in the states for two weeks with the family, looking forward to having more than a few days of time with everyone given I've been gone as much as I have been.

Time, Time, Time

I've been meaning to keep up with this more but I'll give myself a FAIL. Have all good reasons but in the end I've been running on overdrive for the last two months

At work we continue to work on delivering a service. We had a bunch of news last week about the competition commission issues. I'm most certainly not in a position to comment on this, about all I can say is I wish the process was over so we can move on in what ever fashion we can.

In the mean time I'm out looking at London private schools, coming from public school in the states - let me just say OUCH ££££££££££ and then lets add some more ££££££ to the mix

I've been flying back and forth to the states, was back for a week for Thanksgiving and I'm back again for two weeks for the holidays. I'm getting pretty good at adjusting in advance for the jet lag which really does help. Somehow though I'm not going to make platinum on American this year - odd with all the flights I've done but seems my Delta and BA flights have done me in