Dear Family and friends:
Another week gone; hard to believe! A lot happened at work this week. One plant was taken down on purpose and the other one went down due to problems. Neither plant is entirely up yet but both are getting close. Not sure anyone likes me after the week though. On Monday evening I couldn’t sleep so I went into work and didn’t find much going on and then at about 2:30 in the morning I went in again and nothing was going on. And in addition to nothing going on, I found most workers either asleep or playing card games on the computer. So I got all the managers together and gave them a list of expectations and sleeping on the job and not working 24 hours a day during an outage were not on the list. Not sure I made any friends that morning. And yesterday I had to call the mine manager and tell him to come to work over the weekend because the mine is having a terrible time keeping up with production. So after those meetings during the week, I got people stirred up. One fellow, who does a very good job of planning maintenance work told me he was excited to hear me trying to get people worked up, he said it was long overdue and he wished it had been done years ago. Today one of the maintenance foremen told me they had accomplished as much during the week as they had during previous month long outages. So maybe some progress is being made. In spite of the progress we are way behind on orders. Soda ash sales have gone through the roof; now is the time to be running and not shut down.
So what else is there to tell? I’m trying to figure out hair. On guys over here it is pretty easy. 99% are bald (shaved heads). But the women, I can’t figure out. Some look like they have burber (sp) carpet attached to their heads. Those are easy to identify. Others look like they have twisted up a black cotton t shirt and woven it into their own hair. Those are easy to pick out too. But some hair looks like it is real. Can’t decide if I would get back handed if I just went up and asked. Maybe I’ll wait until Debi gets here and let her be the judge and figure it out for me.
Looks like there will be a g
uy (Andy Voytko) coming over here that I worked with at General to help with maintenance. It will be good to have some help. Plus he is excited to come to Kenya. He retired about three years ago and wants to work again. I guess not working isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I’d like to give it a try for a while though.
Well one last comment: Happy Mother’s day!! Mom thanks for all you did and continue to do for me. Had to come to work over here to try and earn enough money to pay you back for all the brooms you broke on my butt. Thanks for all your efforts on my behalf. I don’t think I could begin to list all you have done for me. But know how much I appreciate all you have done for me. You are a great Mom!
And Debi: Happy mother’s day. I hope your girls know what a great Mom they have. You saved their lives many times from a father who was ready to shoot them. You put their happiness ahead of yours and have always done what was best for them. You are a good example for them to follow.
And Mom, sometimes I provoke Debi, and make her yell at me; just wanted to let you know that. Sometimes (actually most of the time) I deserve what I get.
Can’t think of anything else to say, so Ill shut up.
Love you all
Paul/Dad
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