New Post March 10

Well so much for keeping my blog current. No I won’t give you “the dog ate my homework” excuse but I do have a poor excuse never the less. You see I received a little promotion at work about 7 weeks ago and it has had me going flat out ever since. Since I last wrote, my job has had me go to Hawaii (and before you say poor Simon having to go to Hawaii life sure is bad for him). In the 4 days I was there, I got out of the hotel room for a couple of hours after the sun had gone down. Linnet has a better tan than me. I’ve also been to California 3 times and next week I’m off to Alaska (-10F). Not exactly ideal weather to be looking at wastewater projects. My new job title is territory manager southwest (and before you ask how Alaska made it into the south look on any USA map. Alaska is normally shown in the bottom left corner. ) What it really means is that I spend a lot of time driving around the countryside talking poo. Some would say a perfect job for me. Seriously it is a great job with heaps of opportunity to make an impact on how people deal with stuff we don’t normally talk about in polite society. Linnet is still maintaining her lady of leisure status but has a full time job keeping me sane with all the running around that I am doing. We are probably looking at buying a property closer to Eugene late summer, once I can get a credit rating, and then she can look for something in her field up there. On a brighter note we are going to daylight savings this weekend so I guess I survived my first Oregon winter. A little longer and a little colder that Oz but not as bad as everyone made it out to be. I’m still suffering culture shock and I now have a bloke at work named Joe who is taking great delight in correcting my Aussie-isms when I talk to customers. I make gaffs daily so he has plenty of material to work with. Seriously, it does exhaust me having to make sure everything I say isn’t misinterpreted and then still mucking up. I would kill for a BBQ snag or a meat pie at the moment and I am missing the beach a fair bit (of course I’m missing you mob, but that goes without saying). Anyway that’s about it for now. I will do a small update after Alaska.