Day 56

We had an adventure this morning!  After I had showered, I logged back onto gmail and I simultaneously started watching How to Train Your Dragon (cute movie so far, by the way).  However, all of a sudden I heard a pop!  So I took my headphones off, and looked around.  I smelled smoke, which is never good.  It was electrical smoke, so I
looked at my international travel adapter kit I bought in South Carolina.  Of course, it was smoking and hot.  So I pulled it out really fast, set it in the hallway.  But it was pretty much toast.  Unfortunately, it tripped all power to our room.  Grrr.  So we had no lights, no AC unit, no outlet power.  So we went to the US NSE (National Support Entity, I think) and a guy walked back with us and showed us another set of breakers on the outside of the building.  Ours had tripped, and after we flipped them back everything was fine.  Unfortunately, I now had no way to power my laptop.  So Kevin and I walked to Eggers to the Exchange and bought a couple outlet adapters.
It's pretty ghetto, because it's a UK outlet I think, and we had another adapter, and a second adapter for US.  I'll try to take a picture of it later.  I think I may unplug things when I leave the room though.  It was certainly an adventure though.  I think we'll be good though, and I shouldn't need a power strip, provided all the outlets continue to work.


After that, we went to lunch and then to work.  More progress was made today, and it looks like things may come together.  So we'll see.  I had a good dinner with Rob in my office.  He explained how FTS works, Reserves, etc.  I was curious about the various ways of retiring, so it is marginally more clear now. 


When I came out of the office this evening, there were TWO cats waiting for me.  It looks like Pumpkin got the word out that there are good treats over here.  So I petted them and gave them each a treat or two.  The new (to me) cat was an extremely healthy male.  Borderline overweight even!  It didn't look like he was starving at all.  But it was a nice way to end the day.  Well, that's it for tonight!