Friday, July 07, 2006
Short Week
This week has FLOWN by, due in no small part, I'm sure, to only working 3 days. Yay for government holidays!!
Mom's visit ended on a high note. We spent Tuesday at a museum near here and then Tuesday night, of course, was all about quesadillas and fireworks. Yeah, we had Mexican food and watched tennis from Britain with no Americans remaining before watching fireworks made in China. All to celebrate Independence Day. Hooah.
Anyway, another one of the arguments for buying this place has turned out to be true: we were able to see the fireworks stretching from the Mall in DC all the way down to cities south of us...at one point we were seeing about a dozen fireworks displays, from Maryland and DC as well as Virginia. Nature added her own fireworks with lightning toward the end (we had a storm earlier in the evening which cleared out in time for the show to go on) and it was all pretty fun to watch. We had decided at the last minute to call Angelo and Josh to come over, so we could share the anticipated spectacle with more than my mom, but they had apparently headed down to the Mall and for some strange reason they didn't drop everything and cancel their plans simply because we called and asked them to do something with no notice. How odd.
(ok, I'm being sarcastic there...yes, we should have called them much earlier)
Wednesday was a work day for both of us...in fact, it was Adrian's first day, and it was an 11-hour one at that, starting with a 90-minute commute (we've worked out a better system for the future) and ending with me picking him up at the Metro and then fixing steaks. He had a good day and we see some great potential in this job. As for me, I've been doing administrative stuff and getting up to speed on what's going on at work and what I'll be doing. It looks like I probably won't have any SE Asia trips for a while, maybe not even this year...I'll mostly be working here in DC and MAYBE taking a trip to Hawaii for a week in the fall. That's too bad, because in addition to doing some work in the field, I want to get to Bangkok and do some Christmas shopping this year.
A couple other things have popped up this week, really odd little occurrences that kinda make you think, but I'll save those and reflect on them a little more for now.
Mom's visit ended on a high note. We spent Tuesday at a museum near here and then Tuesday night, of course, was all about quesadillas and fireworks. Yeah, we had Mexican food and watched tennis from Britain with no Americans remaining before watching fireworks made in China. All to celebrate Independence Day. Hooah.
Anyway, another one of the arguments for buying this place has turned out to be true: we were able to see the fireworks stretching from the Mall in DC all the way down to cities south of us...at one point we were seeing about a dozen fireworks displays, from Maryland and DC as well as Virginia. Nature added her own fireworks with lightning toward the end (we had a storm earlier in the evening which cleared out in time for the show to go on) and it was all pretty fun to watch. We had decided at the last minute to call Angelo and Josh to come over, so we could share the anticipated spectacle with more than my mom, but they had apparently headed down to the Mall and for some strange reason they didn't drop everything and cancel their plans simply because we called and asked them to do something with no notice. How odd.
(ok, I'm being sarcastic there...yes, we should have called them much earlier)
Wednesday was a work day for both of us...in fact, it was Adrian's first day, and it was an 11-hour one at that, starting with a 90-minute commute (we've worked out a better system for the future) and ending with me picking him up at the Metro and then fixing steaks. He had a good day and we see some great potential in this job. As for me, I've been doing administrative stuff and getting up to speed on what's going on at work and what I'll be doing. It looks like I probably won't have any SE Asia trips for a while, maybe not even this year...I'll mostly be working here in DC and MAYBE taking a trip to Hawaii for a week in the fall. That's too bad, because in addition to doing some work in the field, I want to get to Bangkok and do some Christmas shopping this year.
A couple other things have popped up this week, really odd little occurrences that kinda make you think, but I'll save those and reflect on them a little more for now.
