It was a big week for Don. On Wednesday I received my household goods shipment. I spent Wednesday and Thursday working to impose order on the Chaos. I'm not there yet and truth be know, I won't be there until Lyn arrives and gives her final stamp of approval to furniture arrangement and Nick knack placement. I'm just trying to get things looking presentable and neat. I've taken some before and after pictures. We'll it's not totally after because I still have to get rid of the boxes and packing material and the loaner furniture from the base. Still it was an interesting to unpack things I had no idea we had. Or maybe that's a bad thing...depends if I just never really noticed the stuff or entirely forgot about it. I am happy to be surrounded by familiar things again. I'm most happy to have my own bed. The loaner one from the base was harder than a concrete slab. I never slept through the night on it.

Today I visited a couple of German stores. The Pratiker which is equivalent to Home Depot and Globus which is sort of Wal-Mart with a way better bakery, produce and fresh meat and fish section. I bought some smoked mackerel just to make Lyn jealous. We bought it all the time in England and I'm happy to be able to find it again. I didn't have my camera with me or I would have taken some photos of the fresh beef tongue in the meat case. Well no I wouldn't have. Just go look at your in the mirror and picture it a hundred bigger and you'll get the image.

The other big event this week was my government travel card arrived, I should visit England and Turkey in March. Work is going well. I really enjoy my job and I actually like going to work in the morning. What a change from my last job!

I've started volunteering time at the churches family history center. It's twice a month for three hours. It seems like a good thing to do with my time.

Until next week's adventure,

Don