Flat Tires, Kindles, New Travel, and Weekly SitRep
Trip Start
Jan 01, 2009
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Trip End
Dec 31, 2009
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Tres Lagoas,
Brazil
Sunday, February 15, 2009
- Got a flat tire on Friday the 13th...go figure (and no, it wasn't caused by the mudding, I picked up a screw on-site somewhere)
- I got a real pass to get into the mill, instead of using the Visitor's pass I had been using. And they also extended my ability to enter the mill until the end of Feb.
- I got Jacqui some potted flowers for her birthday, then a few days later they died from being overrun by tiny little caterpillars. There were probably more than 100!
- It's beginning to look like the 40-day trip to Europe this summer is more and more a definite thing
- I'm also 95% certain I will be heading to Russia for work in August & September...but that's dependent on the mill's schedule and hinges on my ability to get a Russian work visa. Apparently, the Russian work visa is even harder to get than the Brazilian one!
In other news, Jacqui has decided she really wants a 2nd-generation Kindle. She's almost run out of reading material (and will run out in a week or so) for this trip. And she doesn't want to have to lug 6 months of reading material on these long trips. I personally like reading a real book, and building a personal library, but she argues what's the point of having a personal library if we're never home. That's a valid point, but I still want a library, even if it's just set up in a storage unit somewhere. So do any of you have a Kindle and recommend it, or don't recommend it?
