Second day of work.

I've survived my second day of work, but only just. I was falling asleep about 4:30 ish.

I've taken some photos of the factory in Redwood City. Google Map link.

The small red Toyota Corolla in front of the building is Robert new car. It was cheaper for him to lease a new car than to buy a second hand one. We are both not used to the other side of the road and keep getting in the wrong side of the car ! No accidents or near misses yet, but some wierd road laws. If there is one of the generic big yellow American school buses, stopped on the other side of the road, then we have to stop as well. Just in case the kids run out from behind the bus ....

The blue lines on the floor of the factory in photo 4, is a sketch out of the size of the plant that we are building as a demonstration. The bit that I have been designing is in the bottom left. We had moved the desks away from the wall on the left, as we were getting carpet laid there. We are now moved back next to the wall near the whiteboards, with new red carpet underfoot !

Robert took me down to Palo Alto for dinner and to do some shopping. We went to Il Fornaio and had a lovely Italian dinner and then to Whole foods to stock up on organic muesli and gluten free bread (for Robert).

I also took some photos of Robert house that's 6 minutes drive away from work. And according to Robert a 37 minute walk !

Everything looks just ever so slightly strange, the street signs are a little bit different, the houses look 'American' is a slightly larger than life, fake sort of way, and the cars are huge. They love their large pickup trucks ! There are a lot of Hispanic people in California and a lot of the signs are bilingual English / Spanish.
We went to a Mexican place for lunch and when I ordered, I only understood one word in 5 of what the waitress was saying and I'm not sure if she was talking Spanish or English.

I'll start with getting an apartment tomorrow and also organise to have my bike put back together.

That's all for now, more tomorrow. :)