Yesterday was the wettest I’ve experienced in a long time: beating rain, so much that standing outside for under a minutes soaked my jacket. However, it melted most of the snow and warmed temps up. Such driving rain always comes from the east; similar weather, though less intense, comes from the southwest. People here are keenly away of global warming. More specifically, if the Gulf Stream alters its course by just a few degrees, we’d end up like nearby Greenland, land-locked in ice.

After work yesterday I decided to check out the Bonus supermarket close to the post. They’re all the same, not unlike American markets, and despite the apartment-like neighborhood, was not as crowded as my local Bonus. By the way, you can always check out what’s up at www.bonus.is That one is situated close to the local Coca Cola bottling plant which long has claimed to produced the best Coke in the world due to the purity of Iceland’s water.

Wednesday is transition at work for many of us. That is to say, I come up a five day morning shift and start a five day afternoon/evening one today, coming in at 2pm. In many ways I like the pm shift: ample time to use the morning hours, fresh for study, etc. Also, in the morning work is generally slower, and I do more general helping out as opposed to focusing upon foreign post in the afternoon.