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I don't want to call them on their day off. Thanks.

thisisreallycomplicated wrote:I don't want to call them on their day off. Thanks.

He is posting and its snow around his house so no BBQ, call.

Thanks, it's weird having winter in July. I just checked the weather where I'm from, and I'm really happy I won't be there on Friday. It's supposed to be over 100, and I don't remember it ever being that hot. If it gets that hot, it might be the hottest day on record. But the weather forecast is usually wrong, so maybe it won't be so bad.

I am sitting at my desk right now.

I have had some calls from family in Chile encouraging me to leave, and go have dinner to celebrate. Which I might at some point. But as of 7:30 pm, I am still in the office.

Really we normally work most holidays excluding the big ones that are shared (Christmas for instance), for one simple reason: only half of the World tends to bother us on those days, and so we can get a lot done in the other half. If it is a Chilean holiday, then we get caught up easily on all of our buisness outside of the country because the Chilean phone lines are dead. If it is a Gringo holiday like today, we get a lot done inside Chile because the gringo lines are dead. It is not a hard and fast rule, and often does not really work out that way, but generally we tend to work most holidays. Sometimes we just decide to invoke a holiday, that we might have worked in previous years.

Strangely, some holidays we get a lot of calls from gringos that have a moment to think about moving to Chile. Day after Christmas is often a pretty active one. I have had two or three calls today from people that had a day off, and decided to give Chile some more thought. Again, no real rule to any of it.

By the way, we are always available for emergencies for clients 24/7. Clients generally have our unpublished lines however.

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Happy 4th of july.... My 3000th post

** edit so i dont go over 3000 , going to get completo and beer! time to leave the office for the night, im sure its 0 degrees here!

(we have heating vents about our desks, but it took the aircon guys 6 months and 9 visits to figure out there are no pipes attached to them in the roof, even after they poinedt laser temp gages at them each time and then took 20 minutes to speculate the problem and promise they would be back one day to fix it)...

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Congratulations.

By the way, the snow has stopped in Frutillar. There is now a full moon over the lake. I am hoping the clouds will break around the volcano because it should be completely covered in snow and the moon should light it up nicely. I could see the snow line was down to the lake on the other side. Perhaps that will be as close as I get to fireworks this 4th of july.

I'd like to see snow again some day. This desert takes getting used to. But I heard we have penguins here, so that kinda makes up for it, if I ever get enough time away from work to go see them.