MrGrumpy reflects on his first week in the USA

So MrGrumpy has completed his first week in the USA, what does he think and how grumpy is he.

Well he is less grumpy than he was the first few days, he has settling into a routine

• up at 5:45am
• Breakfast, Cornflakes followed by Orange Juice 
• arrive at work by 7am
• do stuff around lunch time (buy cars, fix cars, just drive around in the sunshine)
• call Little MissNaughty (aka Wendy)
• eats at 7pm 
• go home about 7:30pm
• watch the 1 channel on TV (Discovery) or listen to music
• drink a beer (or two)
• 10:04pm call Little MissNaughty (wake up call to make sure she does not oversleep)
• 11:00pm ish Sleep

MrGrumpy is starting to be able to translate the american sat nav instructions into something he can follow, he is very wary when the sat nav says "slight right off the freeway" as it generally turns out to be a  270degree banked curve that tightens up on itself, much more like a helter skelter or bob sled run than a "slight right".

MrGrumpy has found that "basic cable TV" actually translates to 1 channel which has anything worth watching, this is one of the Discovery channels, generally either Orange county choppers, a couple of programs about Guns (same style as OCC), deadliest catch or moonshine... so basically the same program with different venues and more or less guns.

MrGrumpy does not understand how Americans don't have local bars, the only "saloon" he found is about 3 miles away and not easily walkable from anywhere (form the outside it looks like an industrial unit, no evidence of it being a bar), so do they only have one beer or do they drive home after being there for several hours? MrGrumpy decided they must be fine to drive home as they are only drinking Bud, and that not real beer.

MrGrumpy is missing is family and friends, facetime, facebook, this blog helps, but at the moment his opportunities to meet new people are limited to the office and coffee room. MrGrumpy is finding it quite difficult to get used to working in a cube farm or locked office, he is used to being able to talk to his fellow MrGeeks and MrPistonHeads and finds the isolation quite difficult. 

Conclusion, MrGrumpy is still grumpy, stuff still annoys him, but the sunshine and technology is helping him to carry on.