And on top of all that ...

... I'm super happy with my first official project. Woo-hoo!

Finally!!! Good news!!!

On vacation last week I got a cryptic email with the subject "All set!!!" 

Yesterday I got a phone call to say, "We're just finishing up the paperwork!"

Today I got the paperwork. And I signed it and sent it back and ... 

As of next Monday I'll officially have transferred to a role of Business Product Manager!

I'm so excited I can hardly type. 

And every time I get a chat that says something like, "sanity prevailed! Congratulations!" my grin gets a little wider.

Home again

The great thing about returning home in the afternoon is that I still have most of a day to laze around - and since I've been up since 2am California time, no pretention to doing anything productive.

And the weather's perfect (if a little smoky - California is still burning).

All that, and the backyard plums are still ripe, and tastiest when they've just had the dust (ashes?) washed off them with the hose. Bliss.