Counting the days

Been very busy at work lately, we were preparing for the summer shutdown here at Toyota motor United Kingdom, TMUK as we call it. Started yesterday and so far it is going well, with a good plan, everything usually goes smoothly.

Two more weeks of babysitting them Brits and then will back off. Time to see if they can fly on their own, sink or swim. After that I will be counting the days to October first, that is when I am done here, starting to get boring around here. I have made great friends over here, and some will be life long friends but I do miss my Tillsonburg friends and especially Carol.

Carol and I will be going to Spain first for a week, for a well deserved vacation and then will be going back home finaly, to enjoy another two weeks of time off. October is already pretty booked, golf tournament on the 14th, best man at my best buddy's wedding on the 27th, shit, got to go get measured up for the tux, cant wait till I get back, will be to late, no worries, my best mate Mark is taking me today to do that. Speaking of Mark, never ever met a guy like that in my life, this guy is something else, would not know that by just looking at him, earrings in the ear and eyebrows, tattoos everywhere, but this bloke has an heart of gold. He is taking me everywhere, treating me like a brother. If we are at the pub together, he will not let me walk home by myself, and its just a 2 minutes walk, he will either walk me home or have 2 of his sons, Ben and Stu escort me home. Sometimes there is 4 or 5 walking me home. One night when Carol was here, they drove us home just to make sure we were safe. There will always be a strongbow in the fridge waiting for him, if he ever decide to come and visit me in Tillsonburg.

Anyway, this as been a great experience that I will never forget, but now I am ready to go home anytime, I will certainly miss this place and the crew at the pub, what a crew them boys are, from fat bastard also known as silent killer, Irish Mick, Paul, dodgy Dave to name a few, good laugh we had together, genuine good people that adopted me like one of their own, I will never forget what you guys did for me. Almost forgot Ray, this man went out of is way, to gather 5 sets of golf clubs so that myself, the owner of the company, the VP and the US general manager could go golf, he did not have to do that, we could of rented clubs but he would have none of that, what a gentlemen.

More later folks