Put some training wheels on it

Greetings from Universiade ground-zero. The games are finally ending, and soon the mess of collegiate athletes and their entourages will be whisked back to their home countries, clad in various metals/medals, and telling friends back home of the strange city in the South of China. And when that happens, maybe all the ridiculous bottlenecks will be gone, and we can once again use the damn impressive metro system that SZ takes for granted.

yep, html humor...

Anyway, the heat has settled in, promised only to stay for a few weeks and 2 months on won't leave or pay rent. Your New England summer seems to be back to normal with your heat largely normal at this stage, and we're pretty jealous of a good ol' summer back home.

The heat's up in many ways. Work is moving forward, and for what seems like the first time in recent memory, there is no ridiculous back-peddling and no heinous delays or abuses of our hard work and/or goodwill. That being said our team puts together some top notch work, and it seems we are now having to put training wheels on some of it to help shop it out to supposed equals who are inquiring about our clients. This can be frustrating, but I find it a benign bump in the road. I have always pointed to the "gray-hairs" that have allowed us to put their names on our products when we were feeling low or dejected. When two people as generally negative as OPJ and myself are living in a place we find less than ideal, it is extremely important to find any silver-lining you can. Little things like the training wheels are what I point out to my frustrated colleagues: This isn't a bad thing, it reiterates the hot-air we tend to blow around here.

Eh, another week goes by, but it's been a good one, and it's only Tuesday.