No, I mustn't - Oh all right then - Houston we have a problem!

Here I am in Houston. The weather is good, the food is fattening and the job is boring, boring, boring!

Her indoors is complaining I was only supposed to be here 2 weeks, my company is trying to keep me here for ever, and the work stinks. Better start the tunnel then or perhaps I should go through one of the ones from Mexico

Who invented cherry diet coke? Must have been a sadist on a diet. I have always disliked cherries since I was a child and got given lots of medicine smelling and sort of tasting of cherries - but always with an aftertaste of earwax or bitters. If you were unlucky these would be combined. There must be a whole generation of English kid put off cherries for life. Obviously didn't happen in the US coz cherry seems to be a popular flavor(sic).

I am working with a bunch of Spaniards. In Houston you have breakfast at 7am, lunch at 12 and dinner at 6:30 or 7pm. The restaurants start to close at 10:30. The Spanish are just about ready to go out for a meal then. Lunch would be around two or 3pm when the lunch places are closed. Can't be enough Mexican influence here or do they also eat food early?

Yesterday was Groundhog Day. There was a shadow so 6 more weeks of winter. Only problem is that Phil has only been right 37% of the time. By the law of averages he should be right closer to 50% of the time. Time somebody found a better interpreter.