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Hello starbase, so nice to see you!

It is a lovely home thatched roof and all. You buy the house, we’ll come to visit, Chef Tude will whip up the meals, and we can write some grand poetry in the garden, LOL, how does that sound?

How goes it for you?? Summer slipping away all too rapidly?

Well summer here is about six really hot months long, so it won't slip away until late October, then the temps are much more comfortable.

Luckily we have air conditioning until then. ;-)

Well I'm finally all plugged up with my own laptop and home Internet connection! Whew! Really it just feels like a return to normalcy, but what normalcy it is, my own music, my own bookmarks, all in the comfort of my own home.

And now I can finally get cracking on those professional goals, and so return to the US and a comfortable living again.

Amusingly, they updated the certifications this month anyway, so even if I had gotten those other ones I started, they would have soon been outdated anyway.

And the funniest kicker is, all the software is free for download now! You just can't release professional work with it (have to buy a license), but otherwise I can now really lay into the new credentials.

I'm almost 100% certain I will be ready to return to a comfortable, quiet office job when this contract is finished (in just 8 more months, can you believe 4 months have gone by since I was home writing "Silver Spoons"??!!)

Four months, seems like the blink of an eye!