Nothing to Post Again

Yeah, nothing is really happening. My mind is focused on the big trip to the U.S., which makes it that much harder to focus on my work. The weather is getting colder. There is no humidity during the summer on a wind chill factor. The weather people keep promising that it will get nice eventually, but I trust them about as much as I trust the government here. Everyday I read the paper and its just more examples of how people can't work together. The governments and businesses have finally gotten everything ready to start building the large hockey hall needed for the 2006 World Championships here in Riga. Now they are trying to build a small hall which is also necessary. It could be a bigger debacle, because the mayor of Ventspils is involved. This guy is a millionaire who got his money by buying all of the privatization certificates in the town and sold them back to the people who lived there. He then became mayor and gave all the city contracts to companies that he owns. He has helped the town a lot and no body can prove anything, so he keeps doing what he's doing. Atleast it gives me something to read in the paper.