Welcome (to Dublin ...) and starting up

Hi all,

After some basic experimenting, I decided that my recent official entry into the WW-Information world is a good excuse to join the rest of the world with a BLOG ...

Hopefully, this can help keep everyone more or less in line with what's going on with me when I find the time (and more important) to write down a few lines without having to go through the same stories with each of you seperately.

One might expect that after the long stories I have written and sent out about my experience in Japan, Cuba and Mexico this site might be filled soon with many stories.
The last experience in Brazil, however suggests that I am not so big on writing any more.
But maybe I am to bag-log some of the stories of my recent visit to Brazil. I guess the picasa thing helped me be lazy trusting the "a picture is worth a 1,000 words" thing.

Time will tell.

Anyway, about to run into the 2-week mark since arriving in Dublin, I am almost set with a local bank account, a local social security and immigration numbers, and a few other basics.
Am yet to find my own apartment, and to get myself a phone number though.

After relaxing abit from eating at my new workplace - Jumping between breakfast to snacks to lunch (Sushi / Mexican / Mediterranean/ etc ...) and back to snacks, I finally decided to think about finding out what I am actually supposed to do here, and so I registered myself to the gym that we have here in the company.
The snacks and drinks that are available everywhere you go here (just by the coffee machines) are a real danger, but they keep me up and running till it gets dark here (and it doesn't really get properly dark before 22:00), along with the 2~3 double espressos/Machiatos.

Coming friday, I am about to be ridicouled as a newby in front of the all company (along with many other than joined recently) - everybody will be drinking as well, so this should prove to be interesting :)

Last sunday, I was already invited (thanks to the local in-house Israeli mini-Gmafia) to a "singles" party (whatever is the proper term for it) of the local Jewish community.

Since the community here consists of about 1,000 people, about 80% of which are over 50 and the "young ones" are long married, I had - let's say - not too many expectations of the event, but as it turned out, the real local Jewish community was almost no part of it, and instead many "temps" such as myself.
By yhr time I arrived, everybody was quite drunk with the free wine and beers, and the guy that took up DJing decided to play a kind of funky/ jazzy afro-house kind of thing, which seemed to be working quite well with the wine(s). By the end of the evening he was escorted by a guy playing saxophone live and a girl singing "da-ba-da-ba". Quite a surprising (and fun) experience.

Hopppefully, ... before too long I might be able to give a report from the London Film Festival in which Eran's Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (The Band's visit) will be starring like it does in any other festival recently :)