Friday....my only day off from the work week. Usually I enjoy sleeping in until 9 or 10 a.m. Not this morning. Since we have had so much rain lately the residential contractors that are working on a house across the street have had their project put on hold due to the weather. So the first morning that they could get back on schedule was "you guessed it" this morning at 7:30 a.m. Just my luck they are building wood forms to pour some concrete. So besides the pounding of nails into the wood forms they then fired up the cement mixer and proceeded to lift the concrete up to the second floor of the project. It appears that the product WD40 does not exist in Libya. That had to be the squeakiest winch ever made. But then again, most of the tools and equipment around here are not that old, it is just that the weather and salt air plays havoc on anything metal.
Talk about problems with metal........we are having trouble figuring out what to do with a number of metal gates that we have planned for the hotel. Being so close to the Sea, the salt air will be very hard on whatever we choose. So the process of finding the right material and testing it to make sure it will work is a whole other process.
We got a special treat yesterday afternoon. To start out the New Year as a team building effort, we had a special luncheon for the whole office. About 20 of us met at this familiar restaurant down the street from my apartment the Pisa Restaurant. They have a very nice banquet room upstairs. We had a full Italian meal from soup to salad to pasta to main dish to dessert. Everyone was stuffed. I came home and took a long nap. I might not have to cook for a couple of days after all of that.
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