New stuff

A few things have changed in cyberspace since I rode around South America. Memory is now rediculously cheap, computers are smaller and faster (I didn’t say I was surprised!), and Google has a browser. I’m playing with it now, it seems like it has a few cool features that Firefox 3 should soon have (which is also new), but the reason I wrote this is it has a button that says “Stats for nerds”. Thanks Google.

Update

Well, it’s been two weeks. I’ve been to Canada for Stuart and Rachel’s wedding, started working and been on two runs.

For a bit of a coincidence my old boss was also in Houston this week. So we saw the NASA center together.

Lots has happened, but writing about it doesn’t get the focus at the moment. Perhaps it will when life settles down again.

Adventures?

I think the adventures are over for now. I have my email accounts all set up again, I’ve worked 11 days straight, mostly at 12hrs a day, and I haven’t had time to do more than eat and sleep outside of the refinery. Quite a shock to the routine (not that I had a routine – perhaps that’s what is making this a shock).

Sanity is being preserved by the knowledge that Stu’s wedding is next weekend in Winnipeg, and that hopefully the Spain thing will still happen in the short term. Then the adventures will begin again, unless I can find a few spare minutes to look around this tiny island I’ve been placed on (apparently it takes a few hours to explore – I commute 30 odd mins each way, but have only seen a few roads and restaurants). There should be some great snorkeling / diving out there. I’ll have a look in the next few weeks. I’ll let you know if I do.

US Radio

On the way in to work this morning I was singing along to a song on the radio, still trying to wake up (unless you are deaf or want a good laugh don’t, repeat don’t listen to me sing when I’m on my own in the car). I suddenly noticed I was singing to Missy Higgins. Hang on, I’m not in Australia – this is the US! Actually it is more Caribbean than US, but still.

Impressed; they have some taste for music after all (at 5:30am…).

Actually, three days in a row, at the same point on the road, the same song has come on (not by Missy – a Canadian I saw in Victoria a few weeks ago). Those weeks feel like months! Maybe 5:30 to 6:00 am is the international timeslot.

I am still here

Yes, I’m still kicking. I’m at work at the moment – it was a rapid transition from play to work, but I’m here now. I’m in the US Virgin Islands at the moment, but hoping to be in Europe in the not too distant future. I will update when I get a few minutes off work…