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Not only do we have “the internets” we now have “The Google”. Check out this clip of our commander and chief:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ0BtSLD3sc

I’m walking and talking real slow
Out where the tumbleweeds blow
Hey ma, hey pa
Let those wagons roll

I almost forgot one of the best parts about the whole trip. We were driving back to the hotel from the plant. We went around a turn, I looked down at the radio, and the other consultant says. “What the hell is that?” I looked up and to my excitement I saw my very first tumbleweed! I marvelled at how big… and well, how dead it was as it rolled onto the road and….well…

…I, uh..

…ran over it with the car.

Yup John Wayne’s Dream. Good ol’ Nampa Idaho. Atleast I can say I saw (briefly) my first tumbleweed.

It’s nice to be home and get to relax a bit. I wasn’t able to post regularly when I was away, so I posted them today. I put dates on them to show when they were actually written. Check it out.

Friday, Dec., 8 2006

Today I finally get to go home. Sleep in my bed. Make my own meals. Blah blah blah. I think I gained 10 pounds on this trip between not exercising enough and eating way too much. Plus, the other consultant wanted to go to McDonalds all the time. That food is bloody awful for you. Plus, this guy would drink like 6 cups of coffee a day and go smoke a cigarette every 30 minutes. Then he complained that there is no good food in North America. That’s because you always go to McDonald’s! The consultants love McD’s because it is fast and easy. The other guy that is my office once told me that he doesn’t like subway at all. I would have killed for a subway the past two weeks. At least it’s not McDonald’s.

CSB booked me on Southwestern on the return flight. I had to fly from Boise to Vegas, stop in Pittsburgh and then to Philly. It’s a terrible trip, but it was cheap. I guess I’m spoiled or something I would pay a little more just for the convenience of not having to spend an entire day just to fly across the country. I’m on the Amtrak from Philly to Lancaster now. My total travel time will be something like 14 hours. I could have flown to Germany for that amount of time.

This is my first time flying Southwestern and I’m not that impressed. I’ll have to say I’m not a big fan of having to fight for a seat. Plus, the first leg from Boise to Vegas I got stuck next to a guy that had the worst breath and kept talking to the guy on the other side of me. He also had a real issue with staying on his side of the armrest. He had his legs spread so far that he kept trying to be halfway onto me seat, I had to keep pushing him back. Then the second leg was an hour and a half late.

Thursday, Dec., 7, 2006

So we’ve made some good progress with getting things set up at the new plant. But, it is freezing. I think I’m getting sick. The office still has no heat. We have to wear our coats all day and really I wish I had a freakin’ snowmobile suite! The first day we left early because we couldn’t take it anymore, and we thought we could log in from the Hotel. Unfortunately the security on the system wouldn’t allow us to log in through a wireless connection which is all the hotel has. So, the rest of the week we had to stay there the whole day.

I had my flight booked for Friday for 2 reasons: one because the other guy from Germany said we would be doing some work on Thursday morning, his flight was in the afternoon. I would have had to fly this morning at like 9. Second because then I wouldn’t have to go to work on Friday and would have the weekend to recover. Then he decides that he isn’t going to the plant on today at all! I could have left on Thursday. But, I guess it is better anyway. I have the weekend to recover. Plus, I didn’t go back after I took him to the airport at noon. I went back to my hotel and crashed. I am feeling pretty sick from sitting in the cold all week. I mean there is really no place to get warm there. The people like the plant manager, that work there never offered to let us come in there offices where they have portable heaters, and they didn’t offer us one of course. The only thing we have is maybe the server room….