After a lengthy absence, some quick words

Pardon my recent, multi-month, blogging laziness my dear fans… or magnus, to be specific… I can make up gazillion of perfectly reasonable and worthy excuses, but I refuse to lower myself to this level… it was laziness… laziness… and pure lack of motivation… that’s that….

Given that it’s the end of the year… I figured I can put together something for the departing 2007… and what a fine year it was… it started out in late February, with whiffing and sneezing moi arriving into the snoozing arms of Magnus at Addis Abeba international airport. From there, a few life changing and near life ending experiences later, I came out with a fine photo album, a few more friends and tales of madness and ineptitude that I will be sure to be reciting to my grandchildren 60 years from now…

From there things got more serious.. I had to work on firing a particularly worthless employee of mine… without getting the axe myself… a feat I apparently pulled off with great success…. Except that this lesson in management and human resources wasted a good several months of my career…

And from there, right as I was about to re-orient my sloth-like post-MBA career… just as I was about to peak out into the great wide world to see what fine opportunities are out there for a bright boy like me… there comes the now legendary credit crunch of 2007… and there I am, wasting a perfectly beautiful summer locked up in the office trying to save somebody else’s money and somebody else’s job for reasons that are still not perfectly clear to me…

Then of course there were the trips with Mila to Belize and France… which were good and healthy for I managed not to get us into any legal trouble and my only death-defying inclination was the 70 mile/ hour drive in our Yaris from Monte Carlo to Nice at 4 in the morning, with Timbaland…

Anyway… end of all ends… the year was great and successful… thanks mainly not to the above near debacles… but to the great improvement in my life, health and social standing… (though I am still a fat, overfed pig)…. And all of these, can of course be credited to Mila… that’s that…

Now onto planning our New Years party which I have a feeling will be an absolute organizational mess…