I got back from the states on Monday, and have slowly been readjusting my body clock since. Slowly, because it requires getting up in the morning when you’re still tired. Chicago, St. Louis and Washington DC were all amazing. I made it up the SEARS tower in Chicago. Went to a baseball game in St. Louis. Walked around the Capitol Building in DC.
People in Europe generally like to hate the states, look down on it, blame it for everything. But I find it refreshing. Everything is new. There is space to breath. There is more of a “go for it” attitude. And everything is so cheap compared to the UK! You can eat out more often, and when you do you get way better service. You can buy a camera lens (Sigma EX 10-20mm) and not feel so guilty.
I might have blogged sooner but my laptop is a little broke at the moment. I used to happily dual boot Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux. But a few days ago Vista started refusing to boot on account of a hard drive issue that I suspect was caused by Vista’s inability to share a PC with another OS. If Adobe made Photoshop and Dreamweaver for Linux I would ditch Windows in a breath.
The latest news on the Rwandan job is that I’ll be heading out there at the end of August.
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