Blend this.

My vacation has been extended. Going on 3 weeks now. Not quite sure when I will be able to get back to work either. If you can't tell, I am just dying to return to the salt mines! Actually, the shear boredom of sitting here day after day, waiting for the paperwork to be processed and the phone call telling me that I'm free to cause havoc, is weighing me down. I feel lethargic and lazy all day long. Jeannette is good about making me go to the gym and work out. Otherwise, I would just sit around and surf the net. Thank goodness for that otherwise I would go crazy. I would love to go outside and play, but there is just one small problem. We are currently in the hottest months of the year. It gets up to about 115 in the afternoon. The early mornings are nice though. The temps are right about 85 and then just climb from there. By 10 it's too hot for me to be outside.

I was going to buy a scooter over here. Talked myself into it and everything. Yes I know that it's dangerous, but to get around town it would be nice. Total reliance on a tuk-tuk is frustrating to say the least. Anyway, I won't be buying on this month. Maybe next month. For the limited amount of time that I have left over here, 7 months, I'm not sure that I need one. I'm still weighing the pros and cons. Not sure I want to go home in a pine box. That seems to be the biggest con and surprisingly carries a lot of weight. It seems to trump my pros nicely.

Jeannette and I have joined the gym and pool club over here. It's been great so far. The evenings are the best to go to the gym. I tried mornings and it was packed! No thank you! So I'll stick to the evenings for now. Once I start working again, I probably will not be able to pick my time of attendance, but for now I can. 

In other boring news, I am currently drafting a copy of some new operating procedures for the company. Hopefully some of my work can be useful and not in vain. I've spent quite a few hours pecking away at the keyboard. I think it's good, but it will probably get shot down at the higher level. In order to get off the computer, last time at the store, I picked up an artists pad and some pencils. I think I might try to get back into sketching again. I have the time for sure. 

Since being here I've realized that I need to spend my time differently when I return back home. I've realized that I need to spend more time away from home doing other things, spending time with others, and making my time count. But the funny thing is, as I sit here and think of all these things, I think of things that I need, or want, to do back home. Then I make lists of things to do! Crazy. So once again I have lists of things to do back home. I have toned down though and realize that I need to be a little more realistic in my approach to projects. I simply do not have enough time to do everything. Sad, but true. If there was a way to clone myself or figure out a way to survive on less sleep......

I just love funny events and there is no shortage of them here.  We went to buy a blender the other day. They had close to 15 display models out for viewing. We cruised around looking at this one and that one. Then we found one that we liked and asked a store employee, that was conveniently hoovering 13 inches away from my face, how much it was. “That's not for sale,” he said.

“What do you mean, not for sale?”

Head waggle and then again “that's not for sale.”

“OK, yes this one in my hand, but how about one in a box?”

“No, Sir.”

“There isn't one in a box somewhere?”

“No, Sir.”

“Is there one in the back, that's in a box, that I could buy?”

“No, Sir.”

“Well, are they not in stock right now?”

“No, Sir”

“Well, when is it going to be stocked?”

“We don't stock those anymore.”

“Ever??”

“No, Sir.”

“So this one in my hand is not ever going to be stocked here in the store again, ever?”

“Yes, Sir.”

“Then why is it out here?”

Head waggle.

“Can I buy this one since it's the last one then?”

“No, Sir.”

“Well why is it out here then?”

Head waggle.

“OK, can you please show me one that you do sell then, instead of looking at the ones that you just have on display for fun?”

They had about 6 actual blenders for sale.