Well today was the first day of my vacation...oops, I mean Dmitri's vacation. It was very peaceful at work today. I got my usual amount of word done but luckily it was mostly planning and phone calls and only a little bit of cleaning metal samples. Tomorrow will be much busier. I'll spend the whole morning at the plant taking flow readings. I'll probably take a good book with me because it only requires me to get up and walk around every 20 minutes and read some gauges. In the afternoon I'll work with Rob or test the samples I've prepared. As long as I take these three projects each one step at a time I should be able to accomplish a lot. I'll always have something to do and I just have to stay focused. That's one problem with Dmitri. Our talks try to cover the next four or five steps for each one which gets me all confused. He'll just forget about them when I live his office and have me brief him the next day on what I've done. I wish I could just talk to him about my immediate next step. I have the big picture down but filling in ALL the details now is just too hard. It feels like school!

Well two game 7's to watch tonight. I'm cheering for the Habs and Flames which probably means they'll both lose, so maybe I should pick Boston and Vancouver. I also have another volleyball game tonight. Yeah! It's at 8:00 and my goal until then is to convince Chris he needs to play with us. His girlfriend Norma is still here and they're usually out each night. If they have plans we're sunk but if I can make Norma think Chris has become a super awesome player and it would be a very exciting game with him there, then maybe she'll want to go and bring Chris with her. Chris listens to Norma. Game on!

Oh, on another note I've been talking to Regina Lee a couple times recently. She used to live in Nanton and I haven't seen her since about grade 6 but she's at the University of Toronto right now. It'll be nice to have someone there who knows the city, I'm going to try and visit her after her exams. Anyway, it's home time!