Anniversary time

As of today I have been in this country for one full year. Once again I have to wonder out loud how fast does the time indeed fly by. It has been and continues to be one exciting adventure!

Furthermore it has been an enjoyable experience to be sharing some of the observations from relocation through this blog. It feels good to see that there has been an ever increasing number of people actually reading these entries. I would like to use this opportunity to apologise publicly to one specific reader who stumbled upon the blog with the following Google query: "barbecue Finland bear". I am not sure if you ever found what you were looking for from here.

I'm anxiously looking forward to the remaining year of my two year assignment. Going into next set of 12 months, I promise to think real hard on how I could expand the blog coverage on grilling various forest creatures to keep all my readers satisfied.

1k

Yay! Just noticed from the blog statistics that there has been more than 1000 different visitor sessions logged into my little relocation blog. It feels weird as the whole thing started as a means to share some experiences mainly to a relatively limited group of my old colleagues. Remember me accepting the challenge more than a half a year ago.

Then again it just might be my dear own mother who is logging in to see several times a day on how's life treating me & my family on the other side of the globe. Obviously she is using a private VPN connection to get around obnoxious regional limitations and accessing this blog from US, Germany, Russia, UK, Nigeria (!), Korea (south, in case you are wondering) or just from the other Nordic countries. In addition to reading it mostly from Finland and Singapore of course. And naturally she would be using at least occasionally Linux with YaBrowser -- that's just given.

Be that as it may, big thanks to all you readers out there (mom included)! Makes it worthwhile to continue blogging knowing that someone actually is reading my ramblings. And watching the Blogger provided statistics is kinda addictive on its own as well.