  Day 1 - I'm back baby I am sitting in the office right now and I feel stoned, I mean really stoned. I can't concentrate, I can't focus and everyone wants to tell me their biggest issues right now.
I need to do my best to help but all the complaints are not sinking in. As always, we have multiple issues but today I can't get into it. I flew out of LAX last night at 1.20am (Monday morning) and arrived in Taipei at 6.00am (Tuesday morning). The 13 or so hour flight was brutal and once again full of Vietnamese & Philipino tourists heading back to their homeland.
My attemps at getting sleep were very limited due to the ignorant Vietnamese chick sitting behind me that kept banging the back of my chair and talking to her friend in a voice so loud that my MP3 player could not drown her out. Also experienced some of the worst turbulence I have ever experienced as we flew over Japan towards Taiwan. Women and kids were screaming solid for about 15-20 mins, a kid sitting 2 seats away from me puked all over his mother and her friend (nice smell by the way! ) and I don't mind admitting I was kind of worried we were going to plummet from the sky....... Got to the hotel in Hsin-Chu and checked in about 7.30am.
Took a brief nap until 11.30 and got up, showered and headed into the office, where I now sit in a constant dream world. You know the feeling you get when you take some good flu medicine. That feeling where your head is actually not connected to your body. Well take that and multiple x10 and thats the way I feel. I still can't believe I just got over jetlag and now I am back out here to fight it for 2 more weeks followed by 2 more when I get back... whenever the fuck that will be.
I am still very happy I managed to buy my house in Sunnyvale just before Christmas and it looks like the prices have raised around 30-40K already however I would like the opportunity to spend a bit of time there instead of living out of hotels. I guess this is just my burden in life and hey, this job pays the mortgage... right? On a weird note... check this out: urlLink http://www.stud.ntnu.no/home/alexann 
