Creature comforts

Technology has its ups and downs. It appears that the internet can only go where the money is......again, I have been spoiled by my instant internet connection in Indy. I put my notebook computer on my lap and it finds my home wi-fi and I can communicate with the rest of the World. The World Wide Web is not so WIDE. Today I was so frustrated trying to call my wife using my MagicJack. I was ready to pull my hair out and I do not have that much left. Our conversations were broken up and we would get every third word or no complete words at all. I thought it was the wi-fi at the hotel, but today, I called her from the job trailer and it was not much better.

I might have to resort to email for future conversations, but that is NOT my first choice.

We had some banking issues to resolve today and I could tell that Carol was getting frustrated on the phone too.........

On a less serious note.......I have been doing better getting my stomach adjusted to the food around here. Finally got my eggs this morning , just like I like them and this evening I tried a Benghazi burger. It was not too bad, maybe a quarter pounder on a huge sesame seed bun. The french fries around here are not too bad either. There are no USA food chain restaurants around here. When one of the guys at the job trailer said he was going to get some sandwiches, I asked if he could bring back a Whopper......he speaks English and has lived in the USA for awhile.....he started laughing and said, “I don’t think so, not around here.” The carbonated drinks around here are: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite and Pepsi. So some of the comforts of home are available. Coffee in most places is Nescafe, an instant coffee. They seem to have a lock on all the coffee in most restaurants. We have a coffee person that has my Nescafe ready for me each morning by the time I get my computer logged in.

When it comes to TV shows, we have four soccer matches a day. Today was a cricket match for a change of pace. Two Arabic soap operas, a german news channel, a French movie station with American movies. It is strange to watch Sylvester Stallone yelling at someone with Arabic sub-titles and a French voice being dubbed in. Sort of makes the tough Rambo a sissy........if I do say so myself.

No meetings scheduled at the job trailer tomorrow, but I need to prepare for my first design coordination meeting on Monday morning. A number of things need to be worked out before we get too far along on the project.

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Talk to you soon..........