(186 - 5) and (10 + 2) and (4)

Back from really deep inside the Tube...

The Long Silence was spent getting my own stuff of the superduper Project ready for implementation, then actually installing it and making sure everything was in place, then activating most of this and babysitting the processes. All this while being the oncall person for our regular processing. Still, the Project is winding down, which means the possibility that my life will return to normal, or as normal as it can be when you work for a big American corporation and where your manager expects you to be electronically connected at all times and you already have a bunch of new projects that MUST be completed by August 4.

A normal life...

I did manage to return to regular workouts at the gym after nearly two months of staying pretty much away. Interestingly, I didn't gain any weight during my forced absence. I actually lost some, and went from the usual 186 pounds down to 181.

Besides that, I recently celebrated with Sue the 12th anniversary of my becoming an American citizen, not on the actual date of June 23 though, because that's when the Project was being installed. Instead, Sue and I went out to a restaurant on June 29 then to a new movie about America's ultimate immigrant, aka the Last Son of Krypton. Flawed, but enjoyable. There was no flaw though in the scene where he is reunited with Lois Lane, after having mysteriously left Earth for 5 years: he catches a huge plane falling from the sky, barely keeps it from crashing into a baseball field, comes inside the crowded plane and asks "Are you all right?" But none of the passengers say a word, silently observing the only person to whom Superman is really saying those words.

Got to go now. But, slacker that I am, I may actually take tomorrow off and enjoy the Fourth. I'll probably pop in our DVD of James Cagney's Yankee Doodle Dandee and/or the musical 1776. I especially like the scene where Ben Franklin and John Adams sing to Thomas Jefferson about why they can't write the Declaration of Independence and why he should be the one doing it.