The Geezer is back in the USA!!
The Missus and I got my Green Card approved in early April and undertook our long-awaited move back to the United States just a week ago. It was a rapid relocation but It's great to be back! I'm in Worcester, Massachusetts, my new home. You'll hear a lot about Worcester, a great American city I have a lot of time for, as I breathe life back into my American blog after four years of hibernation during our stay in London. Stay tuned for reflections on four years in "River City" as Darius Jedburgh called it.
My last post was on 24 September 2004 and it was posted from Santorini, the location that my wife and I chose for the holiday we spent as a "thank-you" to ourselves at the end of a punishing last few months in the USA. That summer of 2004, I wrote two books and held down a few jobs simultaneously and it damn near killed me. Looking back, it wasn't so hard; in the almost four years since, I've discovered that things could definitely get more hectic. I thought I was going to fully burn out a few times, but it never quite happened. In the blogs to come, I'll be reflecting on the whole work/life balance thing or, put another way, "how to be a perfectionist and a control freak and a money junkie ... and still have a life..."
Some of my blogs will reflect on my work life in detail. I'm a threat analyst and my focus is security in the Middle East. I have spent most of the last decade looking at security in Iraq and the Gulf. Four years ago I thought I was a genius; now I know I'm not. But I know what I am; I'm an analyst. I love problem-solving and my area of experise is security in the Arab world. Stay tuned for predictions, reflections and rants.
I'll also be displaying my nerdy side; I'm a dice and pen roleplayer (yeah, like Dungeons and Dragons, kinda), a wargamer (yeah, toy soldiers, kinda), a military history buff and a SciFi junkie. When I see a SciFi film, I almost always think i could have done a better job of the script and the plotting. More on that later ...
But mostly, you'll be getting my take on America and particularly Worcester, Massachusetts. Americans are fortunate people, but there is one thing that many of them will never be lucky enough to experience; coming to America!!
Comments