I'm Ready

Well I am ready to go home and still about three months left here. We lost the first member of our close team and already he is missed and I already know he can never be replaced. a few more months enduring the "bullshit" here which has become the norm. The actual job is not a problem. However, I guess it is good because now I want to leave and not really miss the place.

Away from work it is still the same for me. Reading, running and watching the clouds fly by is my normal days off. Last Saturday was a 10 mile trail run where I was able to run it and it went rather well as I didn't mess up my ankle and didn't feel wasted. A decent turn out and I was hoping much bigger for these running events in this place but lots of lazy people around. The trail was very familiar to me and and I felt comfortable on it. In the end I kept my pace and finished in 1h 34m. This month I ran 132kms around this place and hope to make it over 150kms next month.

Still reading my normal pace and finished a rather interesting book in Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy published in 1888. Amazing the views and predictions the author made back in the 1888. Already have a nice stack of books to read here.

Natalia is doing good and our communication, though not often it is good for me to hear her and see her.

Where's Winter?

Not writing much as things here are always the same and I can't talk about work. What I will say is that I am now looking forward to getting out of here. I've done all aspects of the job here and a little disappointed at the command here but that seems to be the norm. Soon we will loose a big part of the team and that spot may be hard to fill. In such a short time I have come to get close with very few people and the time is slowly coming to part ways.

"My greatest skill in life has been but to want little"

 

- Henry David Thoreau 

I am running more and more and hope to maintain that regimen. I am working to 10k with a good pace and slowly upping that distance to 15km. Also doing more trail runs, which are slowly getting boring as not many choices for trails. Reading also has been a big part of my time here and lately re-read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman as well as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Now reading one of these popular thrillers in The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer.

Weather here is the same everyday as you can see by the picture. Early February and beach weather every day here. Many like this but I always welcome some kind of change to remind me of the movement of time. As someone put it to me the other day- "It is like Groundhogs day everyday here". I sit outside and read while taking in the quietness and peace while present as this will not always be.

So far everything has been good with Natalia as I try to call her as much as possible considering my schedule. Every time she is having a great time with my parents and I can't wait to get home and see her face and get back to normal.