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When my boss told me that he had an opportunity for me in Budapest, I’ll have to admit that I had to look it up on a map. I was not sure where Hungary was even located. I knew it was in Europe, but I’ll admit that I am not so savvy on the European geography. I up looked Hungary on the CIA World Fact Book website and knew I was supposed to come here when the site described the size of Hungary as “a little smaller than Indiana”. I thought, heck! It was meant to be!!

Something that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately is that here I am in Hungary, a country just a little smaller than Indiana and they have their own entire language and their very own unique culture. It’s amazing really, isn’t it? I mean, that would be like Hoosier’s having an entirely different language than folks from Ohio. It’s just strange to get your mind around really. And this Hungarian language is nothing like Romanian or…. well… whatever it is they speak in Slovakia or Croatia. Somehow, over thousands and thousands and thousands of years they have managed to maintain their own language and cultures. Amazing!

This hurricane business is just crazy. I can’t believe how much it is affecting me all the way on the other side of the world. Many of the folks that I work with are in Houston and the stories are just crazy. It seems that everyone has settled just now but now we just wait…. that’s all we can do. For the last two days we’ve done a lot of ‘what-if’ talking… what if the servers are destroyed, where are the back-ups, what can we do with what we have outside of Houston. … but it’s all for nothing as we have no idea what is going to happen. Now we all understand how important disaster recover testing is(yes, we really do this regularly) . Most of our plans for next week are contingent on the situation. I really really am just hoping that the whole thing just completely dies. Even for the efforts of getting out… those long drives… so what. Just MISS!!

Wow. I can’t say that I miss being there… it’s scary. Anyway… I’ll be watchin’ and prayin’… as is the rest of the world… really. EVERYONE is watching.

:)

On the way home from sushi the other night, Simone and I got off at the 4/6 tram stop at Nugati Payudvar (like you know where that is) and I needed to get some milk for my morning cereal. It was about 11:30 at night so a bit late but the nice thing about Budpapest is that they have these non-stop shops. We would call them 24-hour convinience stores. So I stood in a long line at the tiny store and made my purchase. As I walked away I saw Simone giggling… “what’s up, Simone?” She said that she thought it was funny that here are all these people in line at the store with beer, wine or liqour of some sort and I walk up and slam my milk on the counter like it’s nothing.
Ahhh… milk. It does a body good. heehee

Many of you know that I love sushi. This has been something I’ve been building up to for my four years in Houston. But I am finally at that stage where I love it and I crave it. Sooooo this is something I’ve really been missing since I’ve been here. One of my co-workers told me of a good place to go so Thursday night Simone and I ventured to this place. … it was GREAT! It was all you can eat for like $25. This makes me very happy… as you can see:

When I mean all you can eat… it was! The place was set up so that all the tables were around this conveyer belt. The chef would place the sushi and other items on the belt and then it was on the way!!

So funny… I’ve never seen anything like it. I got my fill of salmon (sake). Sooooooo good. I realized though that I can’t eat as much as I used to… I think I only had about 30 plates. haha! j/k

More sushi as it strolls by….