And yes, I do plan to start blogging more frequently than monthly, for now though I that you just be happy it hasn’t been 8 months again.
Most significantly Leanne is now living here in Columbus – technically Dublin. (As an aside, I think just about ever major European city has some village at least in Ohio named after it.) Anyhow, she’s settling in pretty well and things are good.
We spent much of the first few days here running around to various stores so she could get her apartment stocked up. She’s also waiting on some stuff to be mailed from Alabama (where she lived, as opposed to Utah where she was working). I’ve managed not to stay over at her place /too/ much, I’m trying to not make an annoyance of myself with her roommate if nothing else.
Of course there are some very nice things about spending the night. 
Mmm, other that, there was a brief period of time at work where a number of us were concerned about being layed off. When your managers start telling you to polish up your resume and schmooze other folks around the bank in the hopes of getting a job with them, that tends to make us nervous.
But, at least for the next year or so it looks like we’re reasonable safe. My group, at least most of it is being transferred en masse to another line of business. So, I get to keep half my job (the other job I did is being left within my old LOB) and my manager, not something I can really complain about.
Other than that little hiccup, work has been mainly crazy-busy. I think I put in nearly 70 hours last week and over the weekend. That should be the last of that level of crazy business for a while – it’s uncertain what will happen exactly once we’re in our new LOB, but that doesn’t happen until the new year.
Getting back to Leanne, and more specifically where she lives, we discovered a very nice Greek restaurant right near her place. It looked like a little hole in the wall gyro places, but turning out to be good-size authentic Greek restaurant. We feasted, remarked upon our luck and drank ouzo. It was VERY good.
What else?
Ah, went and saw my cousin’s new baby – her mother’s first grandchild. He’s small, cute and farted on me a lot. I suppose karmically I had it coming. Alas. My mom and sister were along too, we went out to dinner at a quasi-Greek place for dinner. When it rains it pours, or something like that. They asked about Leanne a little, I showed them some pictures of her I have on my phone. I think she won points for being so pretty. Heh.
Hurm, I let this post sit unfinished for about a week and I’ve totally lost my feel for it, so I’m just going to publish it. Enjoy. 
You know I’m always very glad to know things are going fine with you, and to know you’re blogging some again, especially since I don’t often ask you in detail when we talk over IM lately (I tend to feel like I’m being too nosy.)
Keeping half your job is good. I hope you won’t have too much troubles with whatever other half you’re starting now. (You’re starting another on that new line of business, right?)
You should update, love.