I might need to spend less time at the office

Well, there's been a little excitement over the past several days (you can read about our company retreat here), but mostly just a daily routine without much to report. But today is definitely worth sharing, so here goes (in schedule form).

7:40 Wake up, shower, dress
8:20 Arrive at the office, take care of emails and small computer tasks
9:30 Take passport photos of each staff member using the tiny webcam on my netbook
10:00 Try to set up the office bike to go around for demonstrations
10:10 Lose the master link in the bike chain and futilely attempt to search for it
10:30 Abandon search for master link and just grab a new chain
10:32 Attempt to pump up deflated tires on the bike
10:40 Passerby informs me that the rear tube is broken and can't be pumped.
10:45 Abandon plan of traveling for demonstrations to day and settle in for more computer tasks
11:15 Take some cold medicine and run to the supermarket for a liter of orange juice
11:30 Make some phone calls to Kenya to schedule meetings for next week
12:00PM Work on improving current accounting system on QuickBooks
12:30 Ugali and kales for lunch
12:45 More QuickBooks
2:30 Brain switches off, transition to reading The Economist and organizing some company files and weeding through emails
4:30 Head to the barber and lose the beard (takes about five years off of my face)
4:50 Come back to the office, settle in to QuickBooks and set up an esoteric playlist to make it more bearable
7:00 Run home and eat 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
7:10 More QuickBooks (this time, it was rather more triumphant)
10:45 Pack up the office and go home for the day (fortunately home is right next door to the office; unfortunately, Jodie and I find the arrangement allows us to stay at work until much too late)
10:47 Crash a bit and read the new issue of The Economist
11:00 More peanut butter and jelly
11:10 Left-overs (reheated groundnut stew, I tried it cold, but that was lousy; also, Jodie agreed that the taste was definitely Ghanaian)
11:45 Head out to the club (Via-Via) to watch some friends perform (I haven't seen Mic, Mass and the rest of the B-Boys on stage since January and I hadn't seen several of them since May)
12:02AM Arrive just in time for the show to start
12:25 Riotous applause
12:30 Try out the dance floor (I wasn't exactly dressed for the club with my hiking boots, dirty khakis and T-shirt, but at least I ditched the oversized MIT hoodie)
12:35 Abandon hope of good music coming on, order a coke and settle in to read The Economist off to the side
12:55 Decide to head home
12:57 DJ finally starts playing good music
1:10 Arrive home, sign in to Skype for IDDS meeting
2:30 Sign out of Skype, climb into bed and set alarm for 7:50 AM

Not really a typical day, but in some ways, not exactly atypical either. Stay tuned for another Kenyan adventure coming soon :)