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Is everything all right? Sure it is! Don’t worry, I haven’t been in my underground shelter today… It’s just quite busy and I’ve been bothered with a cold, so I chose to go to bed early this week. Getting up early and coming home late takes its toll after a while.
There is some good news [...]

You can never be to careful nowadays. Before you know it a terrorist dresses-up as a penguin to hijack an airplane. Better have the penguins go through screening as well!

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Just a little update of what we have been up to.
Friday was another day at the office. After it took us three record-breaking hours to get to the office due to a traffic jam caused by a tractor-trailer with frozen chicken tumbling over and covering the highway. When we finally got there we worked some [...]

Yesterday and today we had training both in the lab and in sales. The sales training are basically techniques take straight from the experience of sales managers who have been in the aerospace coatings business for more than half of their life. Even though they have so much experience, they are all very well in [...]

Today we tried mixing colors at the lab. I can tell you it is not as easy as it was in grade school…We got a mixing formula from Johan, our technical director. He showed us what to do and we went to it. Basically you get a recipe of what pigments go into the color [...]

If you would have been looking for us today, you would have found us in the lab mixing colors. The full story later tonight.

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

After almost 10 days of talking theory about paint, it was finally time to get our pretty little hands dirty! Today was our first time in the spray-booth applying coatings to metal pieces and doors from the overhead bins. And let me assure you it’s not as easy as it seems. Although Alain really did [...]

The New Yorker has a great article about how the weak Dollar is not effecting the US economy a great deal and why China and Japan are keeping the US economy afloat:
The dollar’s decline, grim as it seems, has so far had little impact on the everyday lives of most Americans. To be sure, there [...]

The first half of the first week in our new office are in the bag. So far, so good. It is all still very interesting. As some of you know I’ve been interested in aviation since I was 6 years old, so it should be interesting to me! Luckily Lisette finds it all very interesting [...]