Back in Laramie

I'm in Laramie, and this time you can actually go outside without appendages freezing off: it must be spring. I am adjusting reasonably well- I'm managing to get up in the mornings, but I am getting very tired at the end of the working day. Not that I'm working amazingly hard at the moment- I have all the ususal new job issues of paperwork and trying to get computers to work. I'm going to be working initially on sorting out a dataset that appears to have been randomly distributed across a large number of computers following no pattern and with no documentation. To say it's disorganised would be something of an understatement. Ah well, I'm being paid so I'll grin and bear it. I have a US bank now, but I have to go to the state capital Chyenne to order a social security number so I can offically 'exist' in the system here. Everything is fine; there was no culture shock this time but two things are perplexing me: why can you only buy toothbrushes with enourmous heads, and who would think an 8 foot varnished bear was a good garden ornament? The trip out was a little traumatic- 3 flights and then a minor hitch at immigration when my paperwork was a tiny bit iffy. All sorted now, amd Andy is making turkry burgers tonight, mm!