Well, here I am, in the States.

Yeah, it's been a while since I updated. Meant to do it at home, where I've been for the past 2 weeks, but never got around to it.

The past 2 weeks have been ok. Was good to see family again, and was able to properly relax during the day, something I haven't done it a while. Bought "Destroy all Humans", and completed it, watched all of Firefly (soooooooo excellent, thanks Kim :) ), read books, and generally mooched.

Got my visa through from the embassy, after much bother, on Friday afternoon, and a flight was booked for me that evening for Saturday. The flight over was ok, fairly boring and managed to sleep through a fair bit of it. Landed on time at JFK, but sat on the tarmac for a good 40 mins, reducing my 90 min changeover time to 30 min by the time I got to passport control. Managed to get to my flight *just* before it left, which was good, but my bags didn't; they arrived on the next flight, and should be delivered to me shortly.

My apartment in this hotel rocks, and there's huuuuge ammounts of places to eat out around here, although not much in the way of nightlife at all, sadly. I'm in a town called Newark, just across the bay from San Fransisco. Check Google Maps and the Hotel Website.

My address here is:

Room 224, 35466 Dumbarton Court
Newark, CA 94560


and my phone number is (510) 739-6000 (or 0015107396000 from the UK)... ask to be connected to room 224.



So, there we go. More from me tomorrow, when I start work.