An Update

Hello, faithful readers
As Ive hardly heard from most of you, owing to my rather abrupt disappearance from the blog world, I thought Id post a quick update on what has happened since the previous posting, oh so many moons ago.
After a few more months of travel, I made it back home safe and a little too sound. I loafed around my parents home for a while and took stock of things. The biggest difficulty I had was remembering how to speak English with other English speakers. A year of speaking to foreigners has a strange effect on the dialect, as you tend to use the barest vocabulary imaginable, and sometimes even deliberately mangle the grammar by simplifying it, so as to not confuse those who only know a few sentences.
I soon reacquainted myself with Western life, which turned out to be a little like slipping back into a warm bath from which you only made a desultory effort to get out of the water. I think Ill get up now& ohh, ahh, maybe not. Progress was rapid; I was back to wasting time reading web sites and newspapers in no time.
It was time to get a job. A friend called me up from New York. His company was hiring. Two days later I was on a plane. Back on the IT scene with a vengeance. We worked hard and lived a New York life. It was sweaty, great fun, and just what I needed after a year of meandering.
The company then offered me an assignment in the India office, and I accepted. Which brings me to today, where I write this from an apartment in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, in a room with a bed, a desk, two chairs, and an electrical system that appears to be haunted by ghouls.
I plan to start blogging again, which is not the same thing as actually blogging again, but you know, the best laid plans, etc. Over time Ill post the rest of my journal entries from my trip, which include more India, as well as Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar, as well as a couple places in the UK. I am also posting pictures sometimes.