Squirrels

Since I’ve been here, I haven’t seen any squirrels. Nor have I seen anything that resembles a squirrel or something from the squirrel/chipmunk/rabbit family. I’m sure they have something here like that, but I haven’t seen one. And I’ve looked. Maybe it’s because Boston was so crowded and there was so much traffic that any little animals that were there just went somewhere else. But I didn’t even see raccoons or other garbage eaters. And I think that our neighborhood in Kissimmee might be so new that the recent construction frightened them all off.

Another thing I haven’t seen here in Kissimmee are a lot of birds. In Boston we had the black birds with big white spots on their wings (I’ll have to call it their elbows) that caused such a ruckus when the sun went down. They would sit in the trees and squawk and get all riled up. I also saw some fat, round robin looking birds. Not a whole lot of them, though. Here in Kissimmee I haven’t seen a whole lot of birds. I have seem some new birds that are black, don’t fly in flocks, and have tails that are slightly longer than ‘normal’ birds. I’ve never seen one on the ground, nor perched in a tree. I wonder where all the birds are.

Allegedly, springtime brings out a lot of mosquitoes. We have malaria pills to take in order to avoid getting sick. Some people don’t take their pills, but what can you do? There were a few cases of malaria last year and from what I’ve been told… it ain’t fun at all. Since we had a relatively dry winter and spring, maybe the mosquitoes won’t be bad this year. The flies are supposed to be real bad also. I’m not looking forward to flies.

Well, I slept in a little bit this morning. I was supposed to go to the gym, but that didn’t happen. I figured I could go later in the afternoon, but that didn’t happen either. We had out formal ‘Welcome ceremony’ for all the new folks that arrived over the past month. I know I’ve said that this is a new office here, and we must have had 75 new people introduced. It took maybe an hour and forty five minutes. It was killing me.

Then we all had to have a group picture taken and that seemed to take forever to get organized. I was in the back of the group talking to Chip and I don’t think that either of us were captured by the camera. We weren’t even trying. Spencer found a chair and he stood on the chair to be seen over the crowd.

We didn’t really get to work until three in the afternoon. And at that point I was way behind on what needed to be done. Mike and Ash were behind also. So we just nugged it out, and skipped the gym. By nine o’clock I was done. I repeatedly asked Mike and Ash if there was anything that I could help them with, but they said that the work they were doing was the kind of work that if more than one person was doing it, it would take longer. I understood and stayed for moral support. But they both told me to get out, so I did. So I went to the gym and burned off some energy.

So after my shower, I sat down and started writing about my day. I passed the 40% mark today. Another milestone!