Monday, July 25, 2022

Photodump: March 2022, Part 5 of 5: Transitioning to a New Era

Technically most of the transitioning happened in April, but the transition into the transition was itself a process.  Besides our aforementioned office move, April almost exactly aligned with Ramadan this year, which required preparing our minds & bodies for a month-long fast.  But in many ways it was just a normal month:



I really liked these snacks if you ever get a chance to try them


Just doing some online learning

The quizzes were very tricky

Installing the voltage stabilizer for the big freezer

Lolwut

More online learning


Hanging out with old friends

& making new ones (we started a new English-learners' Club because we didn't feel like we had enough to do already, lol)

Final pictures of the old office

Though we didn't move for another couple weeks, I knew if I didn't take pictures now I probably wouldn't later

One of the last relaxed days at the new facility before everyone began to move in

Finally turning on the big freezer only a year or so behind schedule

Pretty cool

Insulating the Freon pipes

Rusty millipede



Waiting for the rain to stop

Took my first official language test

Got decent scores for only about 6 months of active study

Looking to the future


Photodump: March 2022, Part 4 of 5: Coban Rais (again)

 You can see more of this waterfall in my post from October of 2021, but this time I went to Coban Rais with a different set of friends:

We met at the restaurant

Then parked at the tourist spot & walked to the trail


















Photodump: March 2022, Part 3 of 5: Setting up the New Factory

 The lease on our office in town would need renewal at the end of April, & we elected to move our offices up to the Gading Kulon facility instead.  But while the office folks prepared for a planned move in mid-April, I spent most of March still working on getting the facility ready for production, hopefully by this October.  These pictures are from the 8th - 13th.

Trying to Get Good Pictures to Post on our Google Maps:






Finishing up the Machine Room Concrete Floor:





Hanging out with Friends:


Working on teaching English to one of my Indonesian teachers

The iNaturalist.org community says this is a Common Southeast Asian Tree Frog

Just chillin' near the Cold Storage Building

There was also a small gecko that day





Went for sushi with friends

Now that the Cold Storage Room's epoxy is done, we could put the stuff back that we took out in February.

Guiding the future into place