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(This one is for Mom & Dad.)People often ask if I feel safe travelling alone outside the States, and I often respond that I’d have to try REALLY hard to get into trouble because I have so many handlers watching…
I am exhausted. I don’t feel well. My lead guy in India told me to take a long lunch and go rejuvenate myself on Commercial Street. (He’s practically a newlywed and therefore still appreciates that the way to soothe an…
It’s no surprise to any of you that my first complete sentence was “I do it myself”… However, in Bangalore that has been difficult to put into practice. I have an extensive set of well-intended ‘handlers’ here and every move…
I know, I know… it’s all about me. But, heck – that’s all there is right now. Me and the road… and my peeps who take succccccccch good care of me. I got up this morning, put on my yoga…
Plane landed around 2am. A few luggage challenges (don’t ask – all that matters is that I got home with ALL of it!), and I was to the hotel by 4am. I believe I have achieved some sort of ‘platinum…
So I’m a gold card Starbucks coffee club member. When you stop and get an iced coffee four or five times a week before yoga, it’s just easy to rack up points and get the benefits of their program (like…
I love shopping. More and more and more, I love shopping… but really truly only if you can actually afford to buy anything. The prices at the Hong Kong airport border on obscene. So – nice ‘looking’ during my 6hr…
Well, you know Dalian is closer in distance to North Korea than it is to Beijing… so it would be no surprise that we went to dinner on Friday night at a place that is known for Korean barbecue. The…
When I first started to put the Dalian site together, there was no team in China. Just me… me and Phoebe. Phoebe was the project manager assigned by the Dalian Software Park team to help us negotiate the task of…
One of my colleagues, Tracy, had been to Nashville a year or so ago and we spent a lot of time together then. She took me shopping on Wednesday night. I wasn’t good company – the jet lag had hit…
