My Way News

My Way News

Ok I saw thiis today and thought, man that would be cool if I could do it. But since 1 hour of TV takes about 1.2 gigs of space and would take forever to come to me via the internet I will have to wait for technology to get up to speed.....

Now if anyone wishes to burn a dvd each week for me and send it in the mail, I am sure we could work something out for payment....

It's finally here!!!!

So my HHE (house hold effects) finally made it here. They 4 crates arrived on Tuesday morning about 10:00am local time. Theresa said it was like Christmas & her birthday rolled into one. Since its been almost 10 months since we last saw most of the stuff, I had forgotten what we owned.

My tools came in just fine. Surprisingly there was no rust on them. The crates were heavy duty, and the insides were sealed in plastic as well. I was expecting rust city on my table saw, but nothing. Simply amazing!

The movers were fast, logical, and professional. I had to ask them if there were in fact Motswanna (that's what people from Botswana call themselves). They were too dedicated to getting it done fast. Simply amazing!!!

They inventories the boxes with Theresa and then she directed them to the correct room. Once everything was in a room and they finished emptying the crates they proceeded to unpack the rooms. They would lay it out on the floor and you just told them where to put it. Have I mentioned it was Simply amazing?? !!!!!!

My car should be here next week hopefully. Then the staff will get it registered and plates for it. Then I should be all set. All my camping gear got here and I can't wait to go out in the bush....

The heat is staying up pretty high lately, but since I work inside it doesn't really bother me. Plus everyplace has AirCon. (or airconditioning).

Monday is another holiday. Martin Luther King's birthday. I am not sure if I can handle anymore time off!!! It seems that's all we do around here. We catch up from time off, only to get ready to take time off.

Man life is good. No more working like a dog for the man. No more worry about a quarterly number. No working from home, traveling all the time, and worrying.... Life is good

I got the fever!!!

Well I was a little late in writing my last blog. The last one was on 14 Dec 2004. I didn't update and had hoped to before the 25th. Needless to say I didn't.

Then on the 24th I went out to play some golf. I ended up getting bitten by a tick and came down with Tick Bite Fever. Its like Packman Fever, Saturday Night fever, and the fever for the flavor of a Pringle all rolled into one.

It basically works like this. You get bitten. You then run a fever between 101-103 F (38-40C) and you get the cold shakes and the hot hots (but I didn't sweat). I ended up missing a few days of work, and went not only to our health unit but ended up in the ER at Midnight.

I was sort of in and out of it that night. I came up with the brilliant idea that if I shut off the AC (I was in the living room and didn't want to go to the bedroom because I was feeling nauseated) and allow the room tempature to get to the same as my body tempature I would not be sick anymore. (I was watching that show Alias and they did something like that to get past a heat sensor). Needless to say it didn't work, and I got really sick then.

I woke up Theresa and said something she has never heard from me before "I'm sick, and need to go to the ER". Dazed and confused from sleeping, she looked at me, blinked, and then jumped out of bed and got dressed and off we went.

The nurse from the health unit (we have our own clinic for Embassy staff and family) met us at the hospital and made sure I was taken care of. I got an IV and some drugs for it all. After about 2 hours I left there (the nurse stayed until I left). I could have stayed overnight, but I wanted to go home. If I would have stayed there all my medical bills would have been covered.

The department has a policy that if you stay in a hospital and are admitted overnight they will pay everything 100%. I didn't want to waste precious taxpayer money, so I choose to get discharged for you, my fellow Americans. Theresa checked me out and paid the bill with our credit card. For the whole time I was there and prescriptions it came out to about $50 USD. My insurance will pay most of it and I will own about $7-$9 USD. Not to bad actually!

I am not 100% normal, but I am getting there. Good news is my HouseHold Effects (aka everything I own) will be here tomorrow. And the car should get here about the 15th or so.