The Sundry Seven

I have a request for any input on how Microsoft Flight Simulator X Compares with other simulators out there on the market and whether all the accesories are necessary such as the joystick, pedals and throttle box?

On another note thank you to those who helped with my New Orleans trip. It really was a great experience and also productive on the networking side of things for work. We did stay down the street from Bourbon Street and the group I was with was a bit wild so when I was back to the hotel after dinner at a time I thought was late(10:00pm) they were coming in hours later near 1 or 2 in the morning. Needless to say I was the only one at breakfast at 6 am who could keep their eyes half open without a cup of coffee.

The devastation there is really hard to describe. I took our video camera and shot some video. I will try and get some uploaded on the blog to give you an idea of what it looks like. We worked in the lower 9th ward gutting a home on Monday. It was one home of a duplex and it had not been touched since the hurricane hit. We pulled all the property, sheet rock, insulation and mud and made a huge pile that gets picked up on their rounds once a week. Our question was where do they take it? So needless to say it was pretty gross at times. A lady in our group was emptying the kitchen cabinets before we tore it all down and she opened the cabinet and three rats jumped out bouncing off her chest and running around the apartment until we hurded them out an exit. For Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we worked on roofing on one home and then framing and sheething on a different home. Friday we got rained out as it was pouring rain all morning.

On other topics we're excited to have Kim and Treven coming for Thanksgiving with Melia. Work is going good. I have been spending a lot of time with my Kuna City Engineering assignment. Everyday I am learning more about developing and how that process works with our being the city engineers. Brent and Buffy, I would be interested to talk to you about your home and at what stage of the process it is in. Hopefully they will get it done soon for you.

We are looking forward to a fun Christmas time with everyone that will be able to make it to Vancouver. We will be there from Dec. 24th to Jan.1st. See you all then.

Peter