Daily Report: At Least Epril Had Fun

I'm going to give up trying to figure out when the rainy season is here. We haven't gone more than a day without a rain shower. Fortunately, rainy weather here isn't like back in New York, where rainy weather was measured in days of rain, not hours or minutes.

On the work front, I (and 5 other people) had lost my psychiatric hospital account to the Indian team. However, the team of 20 there couldn't keep up with what 6 of us were able to do easily every day. My company doesn't mind that Indian workers are so much slower, of course: Their workers are paid based on production, not time. It does make me wonder though how long Indians who speak and understand English well enough to grasp high-level medical terminology will last at whatever crappy amount they are getting paid (around a quarter of what I am paid, plus one third production... thus one twelfth) before going on to something else.

I made a bit of a mistake today: My work computer is still running Internet Explorer 6.0, and every time I tried to upgrade it, the restrictions on my computer stopped me. I finally found a way around those restrictions and upgraded to IE 8.0. I wouldn't have believed it, but there was a reason why we can't upgrade: My company's punch-in / punch-out time clock website won't work with IE 8.0. Fortunately, 8.0 will revert back to 6.0 when it is uninstalled without question or problem.

With all of the clouds moving through, there was a very nice sunset today. Here is what I saw from my office.
I complained about the color of the rice paddy yesterday, and today the sunset colors aren't right: In all the places that weren't red or organge, the sky was a fantastic aubergine. However, that color shows up properly on my camera's view screen, but seems to be lost when viewed on Epril's laptop or my work computer. Does anybody see a vibrant purple sky on their computer screens? I suppose I could go out and buy a copy of Photoshop and color correct the photos back to the way they are supposed to look, but checking to make sure it isn't a local hardware problem first makes sense.

Epril invited her friends over tonight and they all hung out on the rooftop, drank Cagayan Cocktail, and had a blast. (I stayed downstairs and watched Star Trek.) Below is Emmy, Yeng, Donna, and Ardelyn. Epril wants me to find husbands for them. Any takers?