So yes, I’m back. Did you miss me? Don’t lie! I know you did, ha ha! What a (insert bad word here) week! I’m so glad it’s over, but I know weeks like this one will come again; in fact little hell will visit Bealand until the weekend before Saint Valentine’s. I think I just need to relax and enjoy the bumpy ride at work because at the end of the roller-coaster there will be great things for Bea and Patrice, yeeha!

So, what have I been doing? Working like a “mula” and swearing like I’ve never swore in my whole life thanks to a hacker that managed to enter the office network and mess our files up. I was about to cry on Tuesday when the Saint Valentine’s sales files disappeared from our Sharearea and we could do absolutely nothing. My boss decided to take a vacation precisely during the biggest sale of the year and when the sales assistant told me “But we cannot call a programmer without asking Bossman first” I almost fainted. Give me a break, dude! I was not going to lose weeks of work just because the big bad wolf wasn’t there to authorize a phone call. The good thing is that the boss came back on Wednesday (surprise!) and we got the problem fixed; along with his computer who had a major misconfiguration problem and I don’t know exactly what the heck he did to get his machine in such a mess. I think I’ll buy “PCs for Dummies” and give it to him as a gift… LOL!
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I regret to inform you that I won’t be around, blog-wise, until next Sunday. I just sent an e-mail to Camilo explaining the reasons for the 1-week silence, claiming that I have so many things to do at work (St. Valentine’s flower sale approaching!) and at home (Big mess!) that if I sit in front of this computer to post in my blog, read blogs and look for thought-provoking issues I will end up feeling bad for not doing some other important things, since (confession!) I spend way too much time in the blogosphere. I really need to stop for a few days (it’s a power of will thing I challenged myself with), but I’ll be back to nag you, ha ha!

I owe e-mails to friends, family, bloggers and non-bloggers; I promise you will find a message from me in your inbox within the next few days. I’ll definitely be online (you see, the internet is a drug) working on some projects for my husband and the office, so feel free to e-mail me if you have any question, problem, need or rant. I know I’m not that important, but I thought it more than polite to let the readers know that I won’t be posting.

Take care everyone, and if you’re in eastern Canada please stay warm!

I wonder what this order of priorities in the Yahoo! News Full Coverage means. I’ve been so worried about Iraq and the peace protests, I hadn’t notice that the U.S. Troops are actually moving to my country. To train the army, they claim, but this shows the big nation’s involvement in our land, the biggest in 40 years of civil war, the press says. I really don’t know what to think, if it’s good or if it’s bad. We do have a huge problem with terrorist groups and coca crops, but looking at how Mr. Bush is taking care of business these days I just feel afraid for my family and my friends. I remember some people in my childhood saying that Colombia would become a Vietnam because the U.S. would be involved in the conflict sooner of later, and it sure doesn’t sound nice.
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While drinking a cup of Moka Crème coffee this morning I read an article by Pierre Foglia in La Presse. He writes about the anti-Americanism, what it really is and what it really does. “It is not useless, these days, to revisit the anti-Americanism. To keep ourselves safe, of course. Times of war which are to come promise drifts, overflows, amalgams, cries: assassins, bastards.”

In his article Mr. Foglia (who is one of the most influential and respected journalists in Canada) quotes Henry Miller in “The Glittering Pie” a short essay appearing in his book “The Cosmological Eye“: “Will America destroy the world, or will it be destroyed by the world?“. Then he mentions the article written by John Le Carré about the United States going mad. “The anti-Americanism should be revisited, to understand well what it is. And to understand what it is not. It is not a war crime, or an incurable disease, or a relent of Stalinism, or a mental delirium, or a post-Marxist version of the fight against liberalism, or jealousy, or stupidity, ignorance, paranoia, or resentment.”
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