You still affect me...

Please forgive me If I act a little strange
For I know not what I do.
Feels like lightning running through my veins
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you

Help me out here
All my words are falling short
And there’s so much I want to say
Want to tell you just how good it feels
When you look at me that way
When you look at me that way

Throw a stone and watch the ripples flow
Moving out across the bay
Like a stone I fall into your eyes
Deep into some mystery
Deep into that mystery

I got half a mind to scream out loud
I got half a mind to die
So I won’t ever have to lose you girl
Won’t ever have to say goodbye
I won’t ever have to lie
Won’t ever have to say goodbye
Yeah na na na na
Yeah na na na na

Please forgive me If I act a little strange
For I know not what I do
It’s like my head is filled with lightning girl
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you
Everytime I look at you

Homeward bound...

Finally home and feeling completely 'cream-crackered'. Got into 'The Shins' over in the U.S. - they had a track in the film 'In Good Company' which was an in-flight movie, and also in an episode of Scrubs ( according to my 'net research' ) - so I bought a couple of CDs of theirs and its good stuff. Fave tracks have to be 'New Slang' and 'Those to Come' but both CDs are very good.

The weather has held back home too - we left on a 90f day and its been in the mid- 80s here too ( temperature as opposed to musical era ), so now its a weekend packed with washing, ironing and hugging family. And tea!! Real tea !! - Apart from the 'Seattle Coffee Co' outlet, you can only get 'Liptons' tea in the hotels and restaurants where I was. It'll do, but its not the best in the world.

Right then, best unpack the suitcase and see what horrors lie within...

Go Pirates!!!

So here I am in sunny Pittsburgh, doing the work thing. Got to see a Baseball game last night, Pirates were playing the Nationals and the Pirates actually won! Got the game basics off of the 'net so I had an idea of the rules. What a long game! I wandered off for beer and food a few times during the game, got back to my seat and nothing had happened in between!

More work now tho'. Its been a long week but good fun as usual. This accent works wonders over here too!

Why do they put an 'S' in the word 'Lisp'?

And why is the word 'Dyslexic'(?) so hard to spell.
And why do banks charge you for having 'insufficient funds'?
And why does Chocolate make us feel better, and exercise worse? (or is that just me?)
And why is it SO hard to keep EVERYONE happy at the same time, with no exceptions?

I love being a hubby, and I really love being a Dad. My kids are great, even when they are naughty. And I do love my work, mostly.

I'm fine really, just running out of fans. At this rate, I'll need higher boots...

Isn't it ironic - Fuck OFF Alanis!

Another few light years have passed between my last post and this: its the last few weeks of wifeys teaching degree and so every kind of stress has descended on our house, and infinite shades of shit are hitting fans and AirCon units all over the gaff.

The ironic part, and this part is funny really, is that next week is her busiest and most important of them all. Lots of files to be reviewed and given in , lots of observations and monitoring, you get the idea. Earlier this year I changed my role within my company so that I could be home more for this important year, and then for the subsequent years when she is actually teaching. No real hardship on my part ( before you think I am all god-like) as I needed a change and I enjoy the current role. Plus she has waited 7 years to do this course, and now the youngest is at school, this is a good time

Next week is also when my bosses decide to send me off the the States again for an emergency meeting to hand-hold a nervous customer of ours during a product launch that may go completely 'tits-up' ( management term. honest ) - NOT the best timing in the world, as you can well imagine !! I've travelled twice a year overseas for the last 3 years, and was promised once per year MAX in the new role. Its now been twice in 6 weeks, and theres ANOTHER 3 definite trips before end of August!!

Wait thought, cos thats NOT the irony bit. As I'm in the States, I'll actually have more time to blog than I do at home... cue Alanis...

'Our man in Kabul'

Just 'skyped' my mate in Afghanistan; He's doing very well. Weather is ridiculously hot. Hes in the north of the country helping the UN help the Afghans set up the election infrastructure out there. Its not the safest job in the world, but he's done worse, and as he said, its in the warlords' (!) best interest to look after them as they are the ones up for election.

So I'm pushing my technological envelope and discovering all sorts of apps to help with communications; Skype is so cool! ( Apparently its like 'Vonage' - you know VoIP-type stuff ) you can talk or type and its free. Also, we're sharing pictures on 'Flickr' ( I know some of you already use this ;-D ) - what an excellent idea and it so easy to use too.

Finally, now we're not training as much, I've got time to build my own website. Using a free program off a magazine disc called NetFusion. Seems easy so far, and my 1st site is up in the virtual world. I know I've only scratched the surface of this program, but so far its not too bad, and the first site was ready in a few hours.

So, feeling the need for a 'well done T', I made some white chocolate and raspberry muffins! Oh yes, superbly gorgeous I can tell you. In fact they were SO good that they went before I could 'Flickr' them to Kabul. Ah well, that would have been teasing anyway, and he has a gun...

Has it been that long?!?

Golly its been a couple of weeks sincemy last post! Time flies when you throw clocks out of windows.

Its wifeys last few weeks on her 'How to be a teacher' degree, so pressure is on for yours truly to step up to the plate once more and be a linchpin / backbone-of-the-whole-operation kind of guy!

Also, in my spare time (?) I are mostly been building a website! Me! of all gods!
So far its looking good, and I've just purchased my domain name, so once its up, I may share the name for y'all ( have to check on my anonymity-thing first as it may blow that out of the water ).

And lastly, my friend has just gone to Afghanistan as a 'Security Consultant' mirroring U.N. election teams. Basically his team are posted out and help advise on potential sites for polling stations. So we've been doing a lot of prep work for that.

I shall return!! but I have to go for now...