SURPRISE!!!

today is the 2nd to last day of work for me. I've been so anxious to go and start my new life in Tel Aviv and I don't like or deal with goodbyes that well, so I've really just been wanting it to be over here.
I've also had a nagging guilty feeling that I'm leaving my job after six months and I think I've been preogecting my shitty feelings on everyone else and then thinking that they must be mad at me.

That's why I was so surprisd when they gave me a going away party today.

They called me into the main office at about 4:30 and everyone was in there with cake and drinks. It made me uncomfortably emotional even just standing there, so when people started speaking I sort of momentarily panicked.
I said a few words though and it was actually really nice in the end and felt like a good way to have closure. It was a good reminder of how sometimes by doing things i don't want to I'll actually be happy with how I feel afterwards.

2 more days

two more days and i am done at my current job. the next morning i'm going to sign the lease for my great apt in Tel Aviv.
Once again, things are falling into place for me. It's an amazing reminder of what can happen when you go for what you want and let go of the results.
So, no more Crytec and hello The Nation Traffic Ltd.
I really have a good feeling about this new job and I'm hoping I can grow there and stay for a few years.

I miss my family and friends at home and i can't wait until the next time I visit. It will have been so long.

lost my wallet

I lost my wallet tonight. It had my Israeli identity card and a bank card and about $50 in it. I used it to buy a skateboard right before I went to the gym. I'd been thinking about this skateboard for a week now since I tried it out the first time in the store. It's a weird hybrid skateboard with only two wheels, one on each end. It's supposed to simulate a surfboard. I went and worked out after I bought it and after my workout, at dinner, I noticed it wasn't there. I didn't stress, I knew it was probably at the store or the gym. Later that night I got a call that it somone found it and my credit card, no $50 though. That's the end of my boring story.

MORE exciting is that I got two job interviews lined up for later this week!!

Times they are a changin

Well, it's another case of the I wish it were a real sunday blues, but I'm here working because thats the way we do it here in the land.
I'm a little bit in many places at once. Here in Be'er Sheva, in Jerusalem a year ago, back home after deciding to come back to the states, and in Tel Aviv settled in my new home and Job. I don't know how exactly this is all turnin out but I'm hangin on the seat of my pants to see. that is what i'm reminding myself of anyway. this is all just one big adventure.

Thrilled by Thriller

Just when you think the world can't get any better, along comes the remake to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
It's rare that a remake out does the original, but I think we have a contender here.

Last adventure and final thoughts

Well, I'm sitting in my hotel room with my bags packed. I'm only wearing a sweater, my jacket is packed away. Normally I'd never go out so lighlty dressed, but I'm off to the airport and its part of my eagerness to get back to the heat that is prompting me into temporary denial about the outside temperature.
The photos here are of downtown Reyjkavik, Iceland's largest city, home to about 120,000 people. It, like every other place in Iceland, is situated amongst amazing physical beauty. It is on the water with views of a foreboding deep blue ocean. At its back are climbing mountains and even a few glaciers. You can see these views thru cross streets even as you stroll the downtown.
The other photos here are from a drive I did from Akuryeri, in the northern and eastern side of the country back to Reykavik.
More stunning fields, mountains, ocean and glaciers. thank you iceland.
I am grateful for the beauty here, the same way I am grateful for beauty everywhere. Here there is just so much of it. I am grateful for the friends I made here, Glen, Harry, Erla, Lynn, Erik and Gustav, I hope to see you as we trudge the road to happy destiny.

oh yeah...i'm a swinger

it's amazing what you can do when you have a few minutes free time in iceland between business meetings