Busy and Stockholm!

Sorry for the delay (already) in posting this week. All the sudden I got really busy. Mostly in a good way though.

I'm going to Sweden this weekend! Heather is heading up to Stockholm from Copenhagen and I'm going to meet her and some of her friends there. Bought the ticket at the sort of last minute, so didn't really get any of these great inter-Europe flights, but it's still not too bad. Really excited to get started on my travels around Europe. I sorta feel that it's half the reason I'm here.

Work is going well. Been moving forward on the project that has been assigned to me. My boss has this great management style where he basically says that everyone owns some part of the system and gets help from the other people if he needs it, but in the end the owner is responsible. This allows you to really run with something, but I guess it also means that if someone leaves the team we are in a situation where that part isn't really known to anyone else. Anyway, it's good for me now. Plus, they are starting to build risk management capabilities into the system (Cristal), and they are sorta surprised to find out that since I've been doing that for a while I know a little bit. So I'm moving towards working on that too -- which is much more interesting than my current project.

As for social life, been doing some of that too. Mostly hanging out with people from work. They are lots of fun and we do a fair amount of heading to the pub for a few beers after work. I was supposed to go on a boat trip on the Thames this weekend with one guy from work and a whole load of his friends, but the boat never showed. So we decided to go to a bar instead (of course). It was a really fun place called Mash and since there were so many of us it was like I actually had a few friends. =)

Ok, back to work. Going to be around late a lot it seems, so if you send me an email with a good time to call between 9am-3pm NY time I should be able to.

Cheers!
dAn