It’s interesting that I’m on the bullet train again today as I write this but I first rode one last Friday.  We took the train about 1.5 hours to Toyohashi to talk with a key doctor there about Rhythmia. We were a little spoiled I think since we rode I the “Green Car”, which is like their First Class with reserved seats, etc.

 It’s a very smooth ride and very interesting as the landscape is constantly changing and these trains fly.  Continue reading

I wish that I had more time to write up posts for this blog! The past week and a half have been a flurry of Japan work, managing my previous MN work remotely (it hasn’t been transitioned yet), and doing relocation work during any spare moment. I have a backlog of things that I want to post.  However, a friend asked for pictures that were not just of workouts or trains so I wanted to post some pics of my great support here.
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Feeling so successful that I left the hotel on my own, took a taxi to Chikara Crossfit and had a great workout. Left the hotel at 5:40 AM and got to CF at 6 AM for 6:15 class. The instructor was great and everything was in English. Class size of ~8 and good coaching. Here was the workout:

• Workout of the Day – April 6, 2016
  • 15min EMOM
    • 1st min Handstand Hold
    • 2nd min Farmers Carry
    • 3rd min Walking Lunges
  • 10min AMRAP
    • Run 200m
    • 10 Wall Balls
    • 10 Toes to Bar

Very small box but good mix of competitive and recreational.  Feel a lot spoiled with Northern Lights and will look for a larger and more competitive box I think.

Showered at the gym and wandered around to a main street after workout and found a cab. They took right to the hotel but dropped me off at a different door.  I had a brief panic attack that it was the wrong place but walked down the block to find the correct lobby.  🙂  Changed into work clothes and took a cab to the office.  So happy that I got to do some crossfit today!!!

This afternoon I got “the call” from my boss with an official offer.  The wait is finally over!  Or, somewhat over, or just beginning, depending on how you look at it.  First my boss confused me by saying he had good new and bad news but there was never any bad news so I was waiting for the other shoe to drop for half the call before finding out there wasn’t bad news.

However, the good news was very good news. I feel that I got everything I wanted and even more so praise God for his favor and blessings! 
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So we have been waiting on news from my company and there always seems to be something new to have to wait for. I guess we are all waiting for something and it starts to wear on  you. I’m not the most patient person so waiting is difficult for me.

This weekend it was waiting for news from the corporate HR meeting with my divisional HR as well as Japan alignment on the position. I was hoping to have news on Friday but I’m still… waiting..

During church this morning I picked up a bible and flipped to the Psalms and chapter 62 (NLT) jumped out at me: Continue reading

Hey family,

I wanted to go over this in our family call but it hasn’t worked out the last couple weeks so I’m going to use email and we can follow up with conversation later. First of all, I’m guessing that most of you noticed that we got a Facebook account for Zeke & Anna and I want to tell you about that but I can’t really explain it without unraveling Japan. So here’s the BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) as Charles would say: We are very likely going to move to Japan for 1-2 years for Boston Scientific!
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