Man, I was so good for the first month, wasn't I? I mean, I get sent away for five days of "New Employee Orientation" and it all goes to pot. So instead of eating and drinking healthy at the motel I was put up in (actually, it was more like a hotel, but it was called an inn...I'll have to look up the difference later), I ate mostly unhealthy food and drank unhealthy BEvERages. I couldn't really help it because I had to eat was was available to me.

The exercise room at the inn consisted of a treadmill, recumbent stationary bicycle and a stair climber. Oh, and if you wanted a bag of chips or a candy bar, you had to go to the vending machine...LOCATED IN THE EXERCISE ROOM! I guess the logic there is that you can work off the calories while you're stuffing Dairymilks down your throat. Needless to say I never really visited the exercise room.

I brought my trunk, too, because I was told that there was a pool and a hot tub. The pool ended up being waste deep on me, but it had a pretty cool little waterslide that the kids would have enjoyed. The first night there me and the boys jumped in the hot tub to relax. Honestly, I hate hot tubs because I'm pretty sensitive to heat. However, this one was tolerable. Actually, too tolerable. It would have been hotter if I would have peed in it, and from the looks of the foam that remained after the jets were off and the ring around the tub, someone already had!

Whatever! The beds were nice, the pillows were soft, the cable was available and the staff was friendly. A big plus from the last motel I stayed at. I'd recommend it.

I saw my first coyote the other day as we were driving back. It ran across the highway in front of vehicles that wouldn't even have noticed if they ran over it. The road runner must have had a major head start because I didn't see him at all. Guess the coyote should have got one of them ACME rocket packs or something. It was still super fast, though.

So I'm in the shop tomorrow. Yup! I get to start work. What will I be doing besides waiting for Wednesday? I don't really know. The manager made mention about some sort of orientation for working in and around the Suffield British military base, however. So I guess I'll be doing that. That military base, I believe, acts as the emergency snake bite unit for the patch. If you are bitten by one of the Diamond Backs that roam around here in the hotter weather, they air lift you to the hospital. Cool, huh? I might get a helicopter ride.

Time to go get groceries now. It's starting to snow, so I better get a move on. I hope you are all doing well, and I can't wait to come back to Victoria in 11 days. Yaaaaaaay!