Less then a fortnight to go … I have started to pack. The biggest issue is getting the fencing blades back as long as Canada post see them as sports equipment not as blades. It may be easier in the long run to just disassemble the blades, send the guards in the mail and take the raw blades with me in my checked luggage ( Read more... )

Wow the clock keeps winding down, less then 20 days now... The weather here has been cold, we had frost the one night. OK so that may cause every one in Ottawa reading this to roll there eyes, but that's cold here. This started about a week ago the night after I last posted we got a quite large rain storm leaving this place full of water... Even ( Read more... )

I did got two of the boxes I was expecting. Mostly food that is ether hard or impossible to get here including the whiskey BBQ souse I asked Kes to pick up for me. Thank you all for sending the boxes. We are not getting to many flights now as most are going to Haiti ( Read more... )

I now know what it life under a police state would be like. A few days ago you may have heard in the new the increase in security status. Back home that mean little to nothing to most people. Here on the other hand was very much different. We had arm guards check our ID's every ware we went, To go to work, to go eat, or just walking down the road ( Read more... )

One of my little project when I was here was helping out a co-work who has a large collection of “Golden Age Hollywood” and wanted them converted from DVD to computer files so she can send her collection home ware it be safe. Well safer. …. ITS DONE …. 130 Movies in total. Before any one ask the Golden Age for Hollywood is the 1930's to 1960's. ( Read more... )

Fist thing : DON”T SEND ME ANYTHING. It looks like the mail is running at 4 to 6 weeks and so anything sent now will not get to me before I leave ( Read more... )

The following is a collection of stories, gossip that is running around about the people here. None am I author to ( Read more... )

The work is quite here, spend half my time on make work projects. I Have eight weeks left till I am home and the feeling they will be slow weeks. I'm trying to fill my spare time at work doing research but the internet there is slower yet then what I have in my tent space ( Read more... )

Well we lost another person from my department, a linesmen this time and they were short two from vacation and end of contracts. He pulled his back a bit last week and turns out he pinch a nerve in his spine and so his leg went numb over a period of a week. There is a little bit of worries on the status of the insurance as he did not fill out an ( Read more... )

It's a new year here, seems the LJ tradition is to cover what the plan for the year to come. To be honest not sure if I have the energy, at this point I should warn everyone now the first half of this post is going to be a bit dark ( Read more... )