Lazy

I have been very lazy the last two weeks in regards to my Blog. Tried to upload my Ireland pictures last week. Due to the very slow upload speed we have, even after 2 hrs not one picture had been uploaded so I gave up. The weather the last week has been very, very strange. Not only has the temperature been reasonable (<90) but we have had rain 3 days during the week and although they didn't last more than 30 minutes, it did rain very heavily during that time.

Been busy in the plant area at work. One of my current responsibilites has me out and about all 9 hours that I'm at work each day. When it is all done and over with, I think I will have climbed every tower at least a dozen times and probably every flight of stairs a couple of hundred times. If I can keep my eating under control, I might even be able to lose a few unwanted pounds while I'm at it. Speaking of eating, I have become very addicted to the cafeteria at the plant. I now have a full serving of salad and veggies every lunch. In addition, my daily diet includes soup, rice and olives when I'm at work. To sate my sweet tooth, I have been fortunate in that they have diet desserts every day at the plant. Although they don't have soda fountains, if I do have a soda I try to make sure it is Diet 7Up. The food they serve is really good too (as long as you like either fish, lamb or chicken) and there is a wide enough selection of veggetarian food that if they had a larger selection of non-meat protein I would even try being a veggetarian while here (at least for a while).

Now that I have a roommate (my boss to boot!) I have had to make sure that I pick up after myself a little better and sooner than I would normally. Although I was a little trepidious about having my boss as a roomy it has work out OK so far (only been about 1.5 wks so far). We have already gotten him playing XBox with us, and to our dismay he has picked up EVERY game rather quickly. We would normally 'ease' him into each game, but after about 2 hrs, we had to take the gloves off and get 'serious' or at least as serious as you can with the games we have. Honestly, how seriously can you take a game that lets you jump 30 ft in the air, turn 180 degrees and shoot a rocket launcher across an airfield? Must admit it has been rather fun to play the games on our new 42" plasma TV that we picked up here. Since we split the cost 4 ways it really wasn't too expensive. Now if we could just get a better internet connection I could really enjoy it by playing online with all my friends!

Well, going to try and contact my parents and talk to them for a little bit, so I'm going to cut this post off here.

Hope everyone back in the States is doing well and CONGRATS to Scott and Angela on the newest addition to their family, the daughter Wren Tucker born March 30! Looks like I'm a surrogate Aunt again.