I think we are settling in finally. Kids are in school (the timing for homeschooling didn’t work out) and we’re making friends.

Work is increasingly challenging. Good opportunities for future work but I really need to manage the client expectations. I keep raising the bar on my deliveries and should back off a little so they won’t expect 150% all the time. That gets tiring and eats into home life.

The family has been wonderfully supportive. This weekend is going to be fun. A day playing Playstation and perhaps watching a movie with the boys while Mom and the girl go look at the dog show and castles and play dress-up.

Just settling in for bedtime and saw the neatest thing. We’re near the airport on the East end of town. The night’s kind of cloudy and I can see the reflections of the buildings’ light rippling off the water from our back patio windows.

Then the neatest sight — the blue & red & white flashing lights of a plane as it comes in for a landing… then another nearby. Soon I see in the sky no less than 5 blinking little sets of airplane lights scooting across the sky like some noisy fireflies overhead.

It’s a nice way to end the day.

My brain is fried from working so my discourse on life in London will be rather terse until my creative juices ripen again…

Work project went live last weekend; celebration at the pub this Tuesday. I’ll pop in to visit but won’t stay long.

Kids are in school; can’t afford homeschool material yet so we’re glad local state school has room for the kids.

Friends are coming in from Germany tomorrow (Sunday) to visit; our kids are going to visit nearby friends today.

this is [—] here, im in londen right now i moved here on june 18 2004. ii went to school just a few weeks ago. My favorite friends are shantel and corrina (they are so cool to me). I am going to corrinas house on saterday. im going to see my cousins that are from germany this sunday but i also have a swimming party for one of my friends the same day so.. bye!!!

Quick update says it all — major software release has been hovering over our collective heads for 4 weeks now. Off-again, on-again approach. Weekend work. Home stuff going on as well. Will post soon but man it’s a whirlwind here.