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Tuesday 20 May, 2008 at 3:42PM (Nereus) :: permalink :: comments (0)

I've been neglecting updating the site since, well, last year some time. Oops. I recently completed a mission going through all the entries since 2001 and weeding out ones that really served no purpose, such as entries about website updates and when some new version of some utility came out etc. ..entries kind of like this one actually. The final result was a drop of about 150 entries and something like 600 comments. Meh, whatever.

Been up to a lot this year. We went to London for 7 days, staying at a hotel in Baker Street about a block from the BakerLoo line station. It was a work trip for Ice, so I just sneaked along in her basket, as ya do. Pretty awesome. Hope to post some pictures eventually, but don't hold your breath. Amazingly enough, the weather was really nice just about the entire time we were there, which is almost unheard of in London for that time of year. Lucky huh. We also did another trip to Las Vegas which was great, and then I spent another week in Los Angeles when my father was gravely ill and the Doctor didn't think he was going to survive. It was the first time I'd seen my father in about 20 years. He has since recovered remarkably well, although is still in a recuperative hospital for now. In the space of a month or so, I changed time zones seven times. Don't think I ever recovered from it - the last two nights I didn't get to sleep until maybe 5:30am, and then up again a couple of hours later. Had a lot of that for a while after I came back for L.A. too.

Got down to the final five for a permanent auditor position with one of the 'Big Four' accounting firms here in NYC - I was the only person left from New York, and there were two flown in for the final interviews from Texas, and two others from somewhere down south around New Orleans I believe. Was a little surprised I didn't get it actually, and disappointed obviously. Never mind - onwards and upwards. I still have 1 year to go to finish my degree, so there's light at the end of that tunnel at last. My eyes are getting too tired to continue staring at the monitor. Later.

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