The challenge of living abroad for a year, and continuing to work on projects back home, is the time-zone difference (7 hours in my case). Even a meeting as "late" as 9a in Arkansas is 4p here in Graz.
As not every meeting back home can be scheduled for 9a or earlier, I have designated Wednesdays as the day of the week that I'll accept meetings that start after 9a. On most Wednesdays I have a noon meeting, which means that I'm finished around 8p local time (which means that I miss dinner and bedtime at home with Sue and the kids). But yesterday, a meeting I have been trying to schedule with a company representative for over a week could only be scheduled at 2:30p. That means, yes, my day ended at 10:30p.
Like I said, it's a challenge, but while the US slept this morning I spent a fairly relaxed morning going with Sue to the butcher to pick up tonight's meal, we then met a friend for coffee, and I bought my lunch at the farmer's market on the way into the office. So, it's not all bad to be out of sync with the US :-)
Russ
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