No snow here, although I'm glad not to be in PA.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Snow, just not here
I spent a good bit of time traveling to workshops and conferences for work these last two weeks. I haven't been anywhere exciting though, just rural middle England.
Last weekend I did family stuff with James's family. This weekend we went to Romford for drinks with James's old school friends (have I ever had a drink with a high school friend?), and I went out for pizza and drinks with Belgium David from Lehigh and a friend from work. Woot.
No snow here, although I'm glad not to be in PA.
No snow here, although I'm glad not to be in PA.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Liverpool
Hmm, I guess it's been two weeks since an update. Oops.
Our pretend-to-be-careless-students girls night was a bit disappointing because we spent too much time hanging out and chatting in Tricia's dorm. By the time we went out at 12:30am, the pubs and clubs were full and not letting more people in. Oh well.
I don't honestly remember what if I did anything exciting that week. We went to a beer garden with an old Lehigh friend, had lots of birthday dinners and birthday lunches and birthday drinks (couples here must love the month of April). We made an amazing pizza at some point.
(Has anyone else noticed that the key points in my life seems to be related to food?)
On Thursday I went with some co-workers on a tour of a steel mill in the north. It's operated by client that I'm working on a huge project at work for. The mill was awesome! We saw the blast furnaces, where iron ore is melted at an extremely high temperature and molten iron and black goo come out. We also saw how the liquid steel is poured into molds and transported or rolled into specific shapes. There must be a lot of satisfaction in a job that produces tangible products (Sara, I'm jealous).
On Friday I returned north to Liverpool to be the independent auditor for EuroMillions again. The lottery is run from Brussels. the pretty girl that draws the numbers from the machine is in France, the software that determines ticket sales and winners sits on servers in London, and the team who operates this software is in Liverpool. Damn I love outsourcing!
It was a lonely Friday night, but at least I was free to roam around Liverpool with my camera for a few hours on Saturday morning. :-)
Love always,
Melanie
Our pretend-to-be-careless-students girls night was a bit disappointing because we spent too much time hanging out and chatting in Tricia's dorm. By the time we went out at 12:30am, the pubs and clubs were full and not letting more people in. Oh well.
I don't honestly remember what if I did anything exciting that week. We went to a beer garden with an old Lehigh friend, had lots of birthday dinners and birthday lunches and birthday drinks (couples here must love the month of April). We made an amazing pizza at some point.
(Has anyone else noticed that the key points in my life seems to be related to food?)
On Thursday I went with some co-workers on a tour of a steel mill in the north. It's operated by client that I'm working on a huge project at work for. The mill was awesome! We saw the blast furnaces, where iron ore is melted at an extremely high temperature and molten iron and black goo come out. We also saw how the liquid steel is poured into molds and transported or rolled into specific shapes. There must be a lot of satisfaction in a job that produces tangible products (Sara, I'm jealous).
On Friday I returned north to Liverpool to be the independent auditor for EuroMillions again. The lottery is run from Brussels. the pretty girl that draws the numbers from the machine is in France, the software that determines ticket sales and winners sits on servers in London, and the team who operates this software is in Liverpool. Damn I love outsourcing!
It was a lonely Friday night, but at least I was free to roam around Liverpool with my camera for a few hours on Saturday morning. :-)
Love always,
Melanie
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