November Update

A few things to catch up on! I haven’t written anything for quite a while….I have really been enjoying the last of the nice weather and have been training for Rugby again, even though I decided to quitJ I had an awesome Thanksgiving Holiday and my brother and his wife and son joined my sister and my mom at my place for this year. We had a great time and did some drinking, sailing, and golfing and more drinking….

My jeep took four weeks to repair in the auto body shop! That really annoyed me and I will be more careful in future…..I am looking around for a 2008 model but haven’t decided what I want yet. My current Jeep is an 06 Grand Cherokee.

Work has been crazy! Napoleon was interrogated for 7 hours straight by our security operations team. He was on camera the entire time. So we were all hoping he would be fired for violating the code of conduct for accessing information he was not supposed to have and for disclosing it to other employees 9me included). He also threatened, verbally abused his employees etc. However it seems that he is such a psycho he has talked his way through almost everything and set the investigation on my boss, our other colleague and me! Apparently he told the investigators that I have a sexually explicit conversation with an employee…..My employee was telling me some old stories about my boss and her love of bondage and S&M……I think it will be tough to prove. We still think he may be fired, but now we are not as sure. We should know in the next two weeks.

So as a result I have decided to work overseas as an American expatriate earning US dollars. My top choice is South Africa (I miss South Africa) where I can earn a great deal of money, get a company home and car and live tax free. My next choice is South America – so I am targeting June for this move. I am interviewing now for some positions in South Africa. I think I will do this for the next 5-10 years and then maybe consult, buy a business or work part time in paradise!

School – well I am falling behind and will take next semester off. I am half way through my course work on my PhD. However I am not sure I really want a PhD……So I will decide during next term what I want to do. My employer pays for it and as long as I am there I will continue.

Politics – I have not been very engaged as I am waiting to see who the Republican nominee will be. This year Iowa seems unimportant due to the Super Tuesday where everything will be decided early this election cycle. Of course I am behind Rudy Guiliani and think he will be a good president and will bridge the gap in America. If Hilary is elected I will tell everyone I am working overseas because of herJ