At the new work site

<-- the new building is super eco blah blah blah. The green path leads to a dead end at the fence, requiring more fossil fuels to return the way you went. There's a 110km/h freeway out the front, as with most "eco" buildings standing by themselves in the middle of nowhere.

Babyfoot (pronouced babby). Should be like a miniature fusball table, but they made people into the toy figures -->

Today we all went to Carros, where the new office will be. I ran 1km to the bus, and ran another k odd to work, since they said you must be there at 8. I didn't want to be the idiot they're waiting for, when all the buses had been loaded. The plan said the buses would leave 8.10 at the latest, and we took off at about 8.30.

The new place is energy efficient with double glazing, solar panels on the roof and a green path in the front yard. Nothing says green like painted concrete. The car park is very big. There are paper towels in the toilet. They don't use electical power.

I'm in the group doing activities in the morning. There's rock climbing, archery, "babyfoot" (a fusball table) and step class. We get a tour of the M340 factory on site after lunch. I can't understand a thing.

Lunch looks like a Roman feast. A long table full of cheeses, with green grapes and other fruits around the outside. There's 5 different kinds of meat, prawns in hot sauce, some gourmet meatloaf things, quiches and some salad if you look hard. Deserts are fruit flans, brownies, and slices. The marquee in the car park holds about 300 people, and fills with smoke from the rotisserie at times. It's like a bbq at Vince's, but huge.

For now, we're in the old offices at Sophia for another 2 weeks. Then we move to Carros. At the moment, the offices at Carros aren't ready.

The new software is a bit slow, so I bring a book to read while I wait. One of the guys says that we should ship a book with each of the software sold.


<-- Linde supplies a lot of gas to the plant.

See the green checkered path on the left. That's where I get to play frogger with two roads worth of traffic. The path dips down to the far side of the road, then joins up again on the near side in the photo. -->