Hello! I'm Erik Piper, and I've agreed to do some blogging for Czech Update in addition to Dominik's entries. My approach will be fairly casual; that is, I'll be adding content when I have time. I'm an American living in Brno, so those two topics may be coming up a lot -- "America" as a topic only in relation to the Czech Republic, of course. Not that there are any noteworthy topics in Czech-American relations on the radar right now, mind you.

So... what am I like? I'm just this guy. I've been living here for 14 years, and am married, with one daughter. I'm employed as IT tech support and as my employer's internal ("dvorní") translator. Yes, I also moonlight. No, I don't moonlight much. Yes, I would say that even if I did moonlight often. But... trust me!