Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Getting ready to live off of fish and chips!

My hotel, literally on the seafront across the street (I should have taken a picture of the seafront, oops!)



Well, I'm here and I am soooo jetlagged and exhausted. I think being 5 hours off here is much worse than being 12 hours off in Taiwan!

Rewinding a little bit, my goodbye lunch and last (sort of) day at Ricardo was good. What threw me off is that I sent out a goodbye email to say goodbye (obviously), and a lot of people seemed to take it as a "say goodbye and send me all the work you need done right away". Grrr.

Everything is going well so far... the flight, the ride from the airport to the hotel, the food (cross your fingers for me!), the people, the weather... I've been too non-functional to actually do or see anything around here. I took a long walk yesterday to find a place to eat but I was just trying to stay out of my room and awake.

The only thing that is kind of annoying me is that the toilet in my hotel room keeps doing crazy things. I think the water pressure just isn't enough for the toilet to actually flush, so I have to use a small cup to try to fill it up with enough water before it will flush. How does a toilet work? I need to figure this out so I can figure out how to get it to properly flush. I'm too settled in the room to ask for a room change, and something tells me I may run into the same problem in a different room anyway.

Buuut I'm going out to lunch with the Harrington McDermott group today (yay) and bowling with the IT group tonight!

More to come, I'm supposed to be working right now but my computer is super slow.

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