erin's blog

Really WTF.

I am from New York, I want Obama to win. I know that MY WHOLE state will go Dem, that is why Hillary carpet bagged her ass up there.
Even with that can we at least try to cover the election with a little bit of "truthieness".

NEW YORK
0% of the precincts reporting.
0% votes counted.

But hey what the heck, lets tick this one of for Obama.

BABY!

Yep I said it BABY! I have been meaning to post this for a while but just have not had the time. Between work family and rugby I have been meaning to tell you that Satomi and I are expecting our second child, sometimes in early December.

Things have not been easy lately especially for Satomi with the weather in Tokyo being so hot and sticky but now that fall is finally here things seem to be getting a little better.

Here is a picture of the baby Satomi is telling me will definitely be a girl, but I think she and the doctors are wrong and am trying to prepare her for that.

There were many aspects of the project that I was very detached from. Like billing. Frequently while I was setting up for the next set of upgrades I would be approached with billing questions. I simply was not involved in billing decisions and while I had made my "advice" known I know no one cared what I said it was the smile and nod parade as they went past my desk on the way to the meeting I was not invited to.

Later this became OK with me, as unfortunate as it may be, I learned to accept the Japanese way. Meetings are so superiors can tell inferiors what to do. Formally. Very little real "working things out happen there", mostly it was you do this and you do that.

So it is finished.

There is allot of things I have been neglecting over the past 6-9
months. This blog is one of them.

About 2 years ago I saw the first boss I had in Tokyo in the lobby of the building I work in.

He said "You finally made it."

"The only people who believed I could not do it were you and my wife." I replied.

In some ways I regret that statement, even though it was true. About my former boss, I owe him allot. I was in a pretty messed up place when we met and he helped me out, allot.

When we met I had nothing. He recognized my talent but later did not exactly know how to apply it. None the less he gave me a good salary and in addition and set me up in a place in Tokyo. No small feat at that time because just getting a place, a tiny 1 bedroom apartment took almost 5000 American dollars, and involved jumping through more hoops than a circus seal. He fronted it all for me and managed me paying him back out of my salary over 6-7 months.