EV1

Tonight I went over to Bill and Mary Kay's house in Troy, which is north of Detroit and about 45 minutes from me (just to show you how big the metro Detroit area is). Traffic was really bad. I left work around 5:15 or so and stopped by Meijer (Michigan's grocery store) to buy some flowers for Mary Kay making dinner and got money out of my bank for the weekend. The interstates here are interesting. People going 80, 90...faster is common and potholes/cracks in the roads are everywhere. All of a sudden people slammed on their brakes and traffic slowed, and I see glass all over the road and a random bumper in the middle, and people just drive around it and get back up to 80 mph. Apparantly about 7 cars slid all over the road smashing into each other, but what I liked is that they were smart enough to MOVE into the emergency lane so traffic could keep moving. Normally that kind of wreck would back traffic way up elsewhere. I guess these people are more accustomed to that happening everyday.

Dinner was really nice though. In case you didn't know, Bill was an electrical engineer for the GM EV1 since the beginning, and is retired now. He's a huge fan and share's my interest and perspective on the EV1. We ate pork, green beans, carrots, and some apple stuff with breadcrumbs for dinner and talked about Detroit, then after dinner he showed me all his EV1 paraphanalia like brochures, posters, documents etc. I was there for around 3 hours and didn't see 1/4 of what he had.

Work is still really great, each day is better as I get to know people more. There's an administrative assistant named Jamie who lived in North Carolina for a few years, and moved back here to Michigan. She asked me today if I was going to miss southern food, and I said "no, not really". She said "You know we don't have Sonic or Chick Fil A here, right". I didn't know that, now I will miss it. Apparantly she drives to Indiana to go to Sonic. I won't miss it THAT much.

Everyone at work though has been really helpful and easy to talk to. I think at Bosch people were so uptight all the time looking back on it. At the time I thought that's how office settings were, but now I know it was just Bosch. My group is a fun group, people laugh and make jokes and are down to earth. I like it.

What else...what else can I tell you...? Oh yeah, tomorrow I'm going to Tanger outlets in Brighton (between Detroit and Lansing) because I need some more clothes for work. I went to a huge mall here called 12 Oaks and the stuff was too expensive, so I'm going to go outlet shopping and get the clothes cheaper. I filled up with gas today. $3.27 / gallon and $30 to fill up a little over 3/4 of my tank. I've never had to pay that much before. Atleast I live close to work/shopping/stores.

Well that's all for now. I need to take pictures of my apartment and post them. I tried taking some pictures the other night but my camera is really junky now that I have used mom's 7.2 MP camera.