Saturday, March 8, 2008

Not A Lot Going On

Getting into a bit of a habit of posting every couple of weeks, wish I was as prolific as some people I know, Phil and Claire to be precise. I’m consoling myself that they are either on holiday or doing something along the lines of working on a project for themselves much more interesting than working, that’s my excuse for not posting more frequently anyway and I'm sticking to it.
Congratulation to both of them though, for anyone that doesn’t know they got married this week in Barbados, nice one you two.
Was hoping to be able to catch up with you both in New York next week but that looks a bit doubtful right now as it’s in the middle of the week and don’t think I can get away from work. I’m booked to come back to the UK on the 28th March so will see you after that if I don’t get chance next week.
Haven’t really done a lot again this week or so other than work and i said at the beginning of this blog was not really going to talk about work, it’s pretty boring to me so am sure it will be for you guy’s.
Not been out much other than to go to work, pretty boring really, that’s the problem with working abroad your not there on holiday so you don’t get to see much.
Did go out to a Korean restaurant with a friend of mine the other day and had Sangyupsal which was one of the dishes I liked when I was working over in Korea. Sangyupsal’s a bacon dish and a staple over in Korea, basically small strips of thin bacon that you cook at the table wrap in a lettuce leaf with bits of other side dishes and eat like a little wrap. Also found a bar the other Friday night called the Flying Saucer, nearest thing I’ve seen over here to an English bar, not a traditional one but something like you would find in the center of town.
Went in and ordered a Miller Lite that was before I realized they had beer on draft, over seventy five of them to be precise from all over the world., Boddingtons, Old Speckled Hen and Fullers to name a few from our neck of the woods and I ordered a Miller Lite imagine that.
Not at work right now have to go and change my car again, I’m with Budget rent a car at the moment and not Dollar there’s not much to choose between both rental companies, reasonably cheap and the cars work what can I say.
It’s a bit frustrating that you cant hire a car for more then 28day with either one of them though without going into one of there locations to extend. For some reason they won’t let you over the phone if you’ve had it more than 28day, another Americanism I guess, not sure if it’s all the rental companies or just these two.
Oh did one more thing the other day, got my hair cut which in it's self is not much of an event, but when i asked how much, i don't have much to cut don't forget. $15 it cost was pretty surprised was expecting around $10, pretty much equates to what i pay back in the UK so not everything is cheaper over in the states. Have noticed quite a few food items that are equally as expensive as the UK, especially fruit and vegetables and not as good quality, at least here, meat is real cheap here though in comparison.
The other thing i noticed and i don't usually go round looking at bags of self raising flour as that's pretty sad even for me. The size caught my eye though when i was in WalMart, a 25Lb bag, just cant remember seeing anything that big in a regular supermarket back home, you can tell I'm pretty bored and grasping at straws or bags of flour to write about so got to go now before it get worse, catch you all later.
Will try and find some photos for this blog but as I haven’t done a lot it’s probably going to be difficult and when I did do something did not have my camera with me.
And no I'm not going into WalMart to get a photo of the flour.

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