Friday, April 18, 2008

Sunny traffic jam

Yesterday Mathias' great return, who picked me up at the office, cape on the airport, in order to get some blades shiped right from Nicaragua. It's not easy in the United States to grab a crate coming from a foreign country, above all when this country is Nicaragua (Don't you worry, this is just some AK-47 from the revolution...).
Arrived at the warehouse, we realized that there was a mistake on the check order : "Foreign Air" instead of "Forward Air". That stresses Mathias out who was already thinking about the return to San Francisco. But before it mays cause any issue, the lady who received us tells that we need to go to the us customs in order to make some paper signed, and gives us directions to go there. We painfully arrived to the customs building, and just for :
-Hi, we want to recover a crate come from Nicaragua.
-What's in it ?
-Pieces of wood.
-Ok (signing the paper).Good Bye.
Well...Back to the warehouse thus, and stress about the check comes back too. Would be too bad to do a round trip just for four letters. But the lady doesn't seem to pay attention, fulfills the paperwork, and tells us to wait outside, which we hurry to do. Once the crates grabbed, we try to fasten them securely on the car, waiting for the woman to run out of the building, holding the check, at anytime. "Is that keeping ? Ok, let's get the f*** out of here !"
Cape on Berkeley's College at Richmond, where blueEnergy owns a workshop. But this is the time when things go hard. Indeed, after all these adventures, it is already 3pm, and traffic increases on the freeway...til we get stuck. An hour to make the few miles to the workshop. Sun's heating, and gas' getting into the car by the open trunk...In short, we arrive at last on the wonderful college's territory where i visit the workshop which is much bigger than Bluefields one. Too bad there's nobody to work in it. We set down the crates, and go back to Berkeley where we stop at a friend of Mathias', Christian,who seems like doing pretty much for blueEnergy. Exchange of a few words around a beer, then return to San Francisco, because it's already 5:30. Ahhhhhh it's moving faster this way. So many adventures just for those two crates, it took us all the afternoon. Then we stayed half an hour at the office, til Mathias has been yelled by his wife who wanted to see him at house RIGHT NOW ! It looks hard to be married.
In short, a really busy day even if we have not been doing so many things :)

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