There is Justice in the World

Ok so maybe not, but at least there is Justice on Project runway. Angela is finally gone. I actually felt sorry for her it was kind of cruel to take her all the way to Paris and send her right back home. My guess for the final three are: Michael, Jeffrey and Uli. My favorite is Laura, but I think the judges might get bored with her at some point.

Anther Week is Gone

I'm back. First I want to thank Justin for posting a comment. I was away visiting family in NYC and than in training in Westchester NY for the past week. It really isn't an excuse for not posing as I had internet access the whole time, but I don't have a better one. I am still struggling with follow through on things, I have a very nasty habit of starting and forgetting about them soon after.

I finally managed to complete my development plan at work today a full half day before it was due . Theoretically I think setting goals and measuring against them is great I just hate actually having to do it. I never know what to write. I thought I will use this blog to complete a personal development plan and due a self assessment in six month (it will probably be the next post) maybe it will help keep me on track.

I also go to spend some time with Family last week-end before the training. My cousin form Israel is here with her 7 month old daughter. Visiting her sister in Long Island for two weeks. I saw the Baby when she was a month old during my trip to Israel. I'm not a baby person and have not spend much time around babies since my brother and sister who are now 20 and 22 were babies. It was amazing how much she grew and changed in 6 months. I thing she is adorable but you can judge for your self (see picture). My other cousin (the one that live in LI) has two kids as well a boy age 7 and a girl age 3 (the other kids in the picture).



I had an exciting week* spending eight hours a day in technical accounting seminars in upstate NY. The technical accounting part was not that great (although some of it was useful), I got to meet some really cool people from all over the world**. The first night we had open bar at dinner, and as is often the case when I am offered free alcohol I tend to over indulge. At dinner we were only offered beer and wine, but for some we ended up at the hotel bar doing shots. I have only a vague recollection of how I got back to my room that night, all I can say is that I didn't find the room by my self. Luckily I don't really work with any one that was present as I'm in a specialized practice group in the firm. I'm not sure why I can't seem to remember that getting hammered at firm sponsored events is not a good idea, unfortunately it has happened more than once in the past.

As it is late I will try to go to sleep now. I promise to blog more tomorrow.


*Actually it was only three days (Tue-Thr) I took Monday off to be with the family.
**The training was for the Metro NY area, and they have a very diverse group of people working there.

The cat's out of the bag

I was at dinner with some friends on Friday night and the subject of bloging came-up. It was suggested that if I should ever have my own blog I should call it Blogah. It's an inside joke that I didn't think even the insiders would understand, but I didn't have a more original name so for now I'll go with it.

A few people found out about this blog, mainly through Dara who has a very popular blog. I will make more of an effort to post interesting things on this blog, but it might take a week or two. Currently I'm trying to catch up on a ton of things I have to do.

I guess this is all for tonight as it is already tomorrow.

Day Two

I wrote running commentary on So You Think You Can Dance while I was watching it last night, but I decided not to post is as it was just too boring. The Show was OK, I did not watch it religiously. All I have to say about the show is that I like Benji and I hope he wins, and I hate Mary Murphy. I got off work early today and I managed to go to the Gym and cancel my membership, but I did not get my development plan complete nor did I call the new Gym to activate the membership. I guess that means I only got 25% of my goals for the day. Hope I do better tomorrow.
Last night on 30 Days an atheist was sent to live with an evangelical Christian family for 30 days. It was a very interesting topic. If you don't believe in anything specific and that is no one right religion how do you argue with some one that believes very strongly that there is only one way and its their highest calling to make sure every one else see things their way? According to the statistics quoted in the show atheist are the least trusted group in the US.
I'm Jewish, but I did not have a religious upbringing and I guess I could be classified as an atheist, as although I celebrate the Jewish holidays I don't believe in God at least not the conventional religious notion of God. I generally try to avoid talking religion as I don't feel that I can easily justify my believe system to other as I don't have a clear understanding myself. A while ago I made the mistake of telling a coworker that I thought the bible was written by man with a certain agenda, and that I did not believe in God. I assumed that the co-worker was Hindu turns out that he was born again Christian, now periodically he tries to get me to accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior.

Goals for tomorrow:
1. Complete yesterday's goals
2. Do at least 2 loads of laundry.

Till tomorrow

There is a First Time for Every Thing

I'm not sure why I decided to start my own blog, I really have nothing to say. For now I'm not going to tell any one about this blog, as I want to see if I can actually follow through with something for once. Part of my reason for bloging is to improve my writing skills. I haven't really written anything since college, five years ago, and my current job requires quite a bit of writing. Another big reason is that I have trouble sharing my feeling with the people closest to me. I'm not sure that I will be able to put my guard down and share them here but I will try. Most my friends are very into blogging and I will probably steal from their blogs from time to time. In the near future I will post links to their blogs and to our communal blog as well. I'm really into TV so a lot of the postings are probably going to be about TV shows I watch. To give you an idea as to how bad my TV habit is I have a two bedroom condo and four TVs and three DVRs, (one of the TVs belongs to my roommate). On average I work about 50-60 hours a week and still manage to watch 4 hours of TV during the week and 6 hours a day on the week-end.

I just ran the spell check for the first time (my spelling sucks) and ironically the spell checker does not recognize the word "blog".

TV show recommendation - Eureka (Tue. 9pm on SciFi) - This is the first show I have watched on SciFi so far it is really good check it out.

Goals for tomorrow:
Work - Get my annual development plan complete.
Personal - cancel Gym membership in old Gym, activate the new membership.

This is it for tonight. I'm not proud of it, but I'm going to watch So You Think You Can Dance. May be in a future blog I will tell you why I watch it (probably tomorrow when they announce the winner) Hopefully I will be back tomorrow.

Peace Love and Diet Coke