The good part about my job - travel

I enjoy traveling, seeing new places, visiting airports, filling my passport, etc. With my job and location, it's been very good for me. I flew more than 100,000 miles last year - unfortunately, not all on one airline :(

I'm really enjoying this 6 week stretch:
March 13-17 Singapore
April 11-12 Taiwan
April 13-21 Australia

and the rest of the time I am in China. And I might have SG again in May, or maybe Israel. And the US. It could only be better if some of the trips were by motorcycle. I miss my VFR :( maybe I'll try to look for a bike again here in China.

Sunday I was looking at a huge stack of work and it turns out I've been able to keep up the pace. I'm finding every month that I am more capable than I use to believe, especially in terms of management (prioritizing, steering engineers, making decisions) and customers. A customer visit can be a very humbling experience, especially since we are usually visiting to apologize and swear we will do better.

Tonight, I can't decide between a 100 minute massage and German dinner or watching TV and cooking at home. Either way I'll be smiling :^)

One final note - Happy (belated) Birthday to Erin! I'm so so so so sorry I didn't mention yours earlier, sweetie. Just for that, you don't have to count that birthday this year :)