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Day 3 on a new time zone and I already seem to be on top of it.  This is a new record for me.  Time changes usually kick my ass.  But, so far, I’ve been sleeping just fine on the new schedule and staying awake in class.

This is always an uphill battle for me.  I usually end up knocking off for sleep as soon as I get back to the hotel from work.  But then I wake up sometime just after the restaurants close and get to spend a wonderful night awake and hungry.

Speaking of food though: I’m starving.  So, off I go.

The stack of wedding invitations is growing.  Beth and I spent last night addressing and stuffing envelopes and it looks like we’re about ready to put everything in the mail.

This is all pretty exciting stuff for us.  Our venue is going to be pretty small, so it’s been hard to choose who we won’t be able to invite.  But we’re definitely going to have our closest friends and family there.

With a date, a place, and invitations printed and addressed…  I guess we can’t procrastinate anymore.

It’s always nice to get messages out of the blue from old friends.

Every now and then I get a urge to reconnect with everyone.  It seems to happen more often when I’m traveling, but the feeling came on me a couple weeks ago while I was munching on some sausage and cheese in a pub in the Netherlands.  So, I pulled up a word processor and quickly had a note put together and ready to send.  So I opened up e-mail and just as I’m ready to press send…

I don’t have her e-mail address.

I checked facebook: her account lapsed. I searched the internet: only old contact info.  Even worse, none of my other friends could help it seemed.

So I just pressed save and ordered another beer.

But wait long enough and apparently the world will come to you.  Either that or she saw my name on someone else’s blog.

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It’s shaping up to be a busy year.  Beth and I are finally getting married, more details to come once the invitations go out. So there’s a wedding and a honeymoon to go on, which will probably be two separate events for our own sanity.  Work is looking like it’s going to be a lot of fun too.  I’ve got a new system coming this fall that is going to be some of our newest and greatest technology.  I’ve been wanting to work on these for a while, and I’ll finally get the factory training to go with it.

So the calendar is really starting to fill up and  I’m excited for all of it.