busy renovating... place looks like a mess...unfortunately all this work has to be put on hold after the lil old Greek lady complained, and the Department of Heritage served me a stop order to immediately cease all work. The process is slightly cumbersome as the submission requires original building plans (from 1948), unit plans, locallity maps, pictures of inside and out, and a motivation on these renovations. Once approved by Mrs Bird and the Heritage Trust, I'll have authorisation to continue and clear the remaining change of use with City Council. Now, regardless of which country one might be from; the red tape of any City Council naturally causes sleepless nights...and I'll hopefully get this approval wound up within 3 weeks.

Was supposed to have a meeting today with a Russian technology company, and expected to meet them here in Moscow. This seemingly was our arrangement until I received email advice that the discussion will be Skype as the lead had returned to St Peterburg. Now while I'm very comfortable using various technologies and personally thrive on working in a distributed fashion, their instruction somehow seemed more of an excuss. Unsure why, the impression it left was a lack of effort, and in order to satisfy the request (to meet) we should use technology. I've personally never excused work because of technology alternatives, yet would think that this probably happens in some context more often that one notices. Of course, time zones are a completely different problem all together, and far more excusable)) -- Sent from my mobile device