Trabajo y Carros

Well work is going dandily. I am working on two projects. The first, ethanol distillation, consists of using a simulation program (ChemCAD) to see what equipment needs to be used and is gives me a cost estimation. It is not a very good program, well maybe it is good, but it sure is frustrating, especially since I'm new to it and still trying to figure everything out. (Today I switched from version 5.2 to 6.0, to it is much cleaner-looking and hopefully will be more Fernando-friendly, which can be hard to do.) The second project, dealing with biodiesel, I have not really explored, but it involves labwork, hopefully. I will work more on this once the asphalt people are done doing their asphalt experiments in the lab (furnished with a ping pong table) and we can set up our equipment. On a different note, Construction has been going on at the office since I arrived and it will not be completed by the time I leave. Here are some pics from work:


My boss Ásgeir showing off his skills, but still loses to Sindri. Fiddi in the background as we invade his lab space.

The kitchen or food area.

View from my desk, with some guy fixing electrical stuff in the ceiling.

Restroom, with accompanying shower...

View to my right. Zhanna, the Ukrainian electrical engineer, and Guðmundur, the project manager of this office, but I like to call him the bossman.

The mug I use for water and coffee. It's bigger than the other mugs and it brightens my day.

Overall it's a nice office. Oh and the floors are this rock carpet thing, pretty cool, and fun to walk on barefoot. For some reason everyone wears sandals or sandal-like shoes while at work, and when they go outside they wear their other non-sandal shoes. I just walk around in my socks while at work, cuz I don't want to bring my sandals in case I need them at home. Maybe it's an Icelandic office thing, or maybe it's just this office. Either way, I think it's a good idea.


So this one day after work there were these random cars in the town center and a couple of people looking at them and talking in funny languages and so I photographed them. Later on that night in the evening news, they had a story about the cars and the people who were driving. No idea what the story was about, but something about driving around all of Iceland. I think the people came from Norway or perhaps Sweden or maybe Denmark or possibly...well, one of the Scandinavian countries. Why they were driving around Iceland...the world may never know, but I think it was to show off their cars.

Cars looking all 60's/70's in downtown Akureyri.

Map of Iceland and some other stuff.

Army-looking things.

Oldies.


These cars are from Akureyri. Guess the locals want any chance to get to show off the local cars.

Nice color. I wonder if I dye my hair this color blue if it will fade to a lightish green.

The engine, if you're interested in things like that, which I am not.

The interior, if you're interested in things like that, which I am not.

So that's all for this post, but I have many many many many more stories to recall and tell. Until next time.

Bless.