Sunday, November 06, 2005
Job Delay and Snake Day
Yes, this job is probably going to be longer than even I thought when I first got here. I had said First Fire would be in February ’06 and everyone, even the other TA’s on site thought me a little nuts and exaggerating the situation. At one point I backed off to January with some progress that had been made at the time. Now, after recent customer screw ups that have occurred, I’d say February again and maybe even March, although that month might be just a little pessimistic. The way things are going though…
Fortunately I’ll be gone in a couple weeks and it will be someone else’s headache. Still hoping to make it home prior to Thanksgiving but a re-routing of my replacement for an emergency in Spain has thrown a small cloud of doubt over the situation. Not a big cloud as they still expect him to be here prior to my anticipated final day so I’m still counting the days and hoping for the best. Even if I get delayed a couple more days I can get home in time for the holiday.
I know that Stacey is expecting me at least a few day’s before Thanksgiving to lend a hand at getting the house and dinner ready for the throng that is expected to show up. She’s really excited about the prospect of having some of our family and friends join us for Thanksgiving and I’d really be upset if I had to disappoint her and stick her by herself during that time with no help. God bless her and I really love her but she just can’t seem to handle to many things at one time. She gets way to stressed. Hopefully I’ll be there and it will be no problem…
Snake Festival today. They have a festival for everything in this country. Heard about it last night from Nagaraj, our driver, but can’t get any real details since his English is sooo very limited. From what I gather though they put out milk and eggs around areas where snakes are known or thought to be, to feed them but beyond that all we saw this morning was a bunch of people gathered at every bushy area or under a tree apparently trying to flush out the snakes.
Update… OK, just read an article in the paper and without gong into the details, the people actually catch the snakes and force feed them milk and eggs to appease some god or another from way back when… Ironically, this usually kills the snakes since they don’t drink milk and it actually suffocates them. Go figure… Indian logic at work… Kill the god you are supposed to be honoring and worshiping.
Fortunately I’ll be gone in a couple weeks and it will be someone else’s headache. Still hoping to make it home prior to Thanksgiving but a re-routing of my replacement for an emergency in Spain has thrown a small cloud of doubt over the situation. Not a big cloud as they still expect him to be here prior to my anticipated final day so I’m still counting the days and hoping for the best. Even if I get delayed a couple more days I can get home in time for the holiday.
I know that Stacey is expecting me at least a few day’s before Thanksgiving to lend a hand at getting the house and dinner ready for the throng that is expected to show up. She’s really excited about the prospect of having some of our family and friends join us for Thanksgiving and I’d really be upset if I had to disappoint her and stick her by herself during that time with no help. God bless her and I really love her but she just can’t seem to handle to many things at one time. She gets way to stressed. Hopefully I’ll be there and it will be no problem…
Snake Festival today. They have a festival for everything in this country. Heard about it last night from Nagaraj, our driver, but can’t get any real details since his English is sooo very limited. From what I gather though they put out milk and eggs around areas where snakes are known or thought to be, to feed them but beyond that all we saw this morning was a bunch of people gathered at every bushy area or under a tree apparently trying to flush out the snakes.
Update… OK, just read an article in the paper and without gong into the details, the people actually catch the snakes and force feed them milk and eggs to appease some god or another from way back when… Ironically, this usually kills the snakes since they don’t drink milk and it actually suffocates them. Go figure… Indian logic at work… Kill the god you are supposed to be honoring and worshiping.
