Woohoo! I am caught up on my e-mail. I wrote/replied to virtually nothing for a week, which caused quite a backlog... Things have been going good... I finally got my wire transfer on Tuesday, and the recieving bank THEN tells me they can't give me the $ until the next day because they have to get the money ready :-))) So I got it the next day, and then went to HSBC to open an account. That went quite smoothly except when the girl helping me got really pissed off at me for not wanting to fill out the fields about my education and job. That is none of their business, all I need is for them to hold my cash for me, and they don't even give me interest on it!!! (What an incredibly good deal for them, it show that there is room on the market here for another western bank to compete with them). Anyways, I told her not to take it personally, it was just none of the banks business, but she continued to take it personally. Oh well, can't please them all.

Today we play Diplomacy, which I haven't played in a decade, it is always an interesting ride...