Now that I have settled into my new spot as Senior Architect for the Benghazi project, I was given a surprise gift from our IT manager. He gave me a shiny new Sony digital camera with 12 Megapixels with a wide angle lens. I would have preferred an SLR, but I
cannot complain. It should do a great job in documenting the terrific construction practices used in Libya. I did not know that anyone had thought about getting one for the department and now I don’t have to worry about taking my own camera to the job site. Pretty good deal.....
I hope no one tried to call my Libyan mobile number......I discovered that I only had 24 cents left on the meter. Here you have to buy phone cards and put credits into the phone. Similar to what I had to do in Abu Dhabi. It is an OK system, but just a hassle when you have your boss on the phone and the phone dies because there are not enough credits available.
Decided to do laundry today.......or should I say have laundry service pickup my laundry.
Another situation that I hope does not go wrong......the bellman likes to say “No Problem”. That is when I think there will be a “problem”. Have to wait and see how many shirts and pants come back bundled together for MY room.
Actually I am more interested in how many pairs of underwear come back to the room.
All in all a pretty good day today......solved a few construction detail issues on-site. Generated a lot of questions for our upcoming design coordination meeting for next week. Tuesday is one of the few days during the week that I do not have scheduled meetings, but you never know, they like to have what they call workshops around here to work out details and make selections for various materials.
BTW.....the imodium seems to be working......just thought everyone would like to know that.
Tony, how exciting! I can't wait to see more images of the hotel, what a neat project. Hope you get to travel and visit the product/manufacturer locations, that would really be fun. Take care!
ReplyDeleteHi Blake.....it is funny you mentioned the product trips. It was talked about in one of our progress meetings that we might be having a trip to Rome and possibly Thailand in order to see some of the products proposed for the hotel. I will let you know how all of that works out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the immodium updates here! Sounds like you are doing pretty well considering technology issues! Keep it coming! Blessings!
ReplyDeletehope your laundry came back ok....when we were in Thailand, we all sent ours to the laundry-one of the students went with the head professor. They arrived back at the architecture school with a bag full of my dirty underwear. Apparently they don't *do* underwear. It was rather embarrassing!
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