You alright?

There's a hand dryer in the public bathroom here. It blows really hot air, but it really doesn't dry your hands at all, its strange. I left the bathroom yesterday and the guy next to me said "only in England do we have hand dryers that burn your hands and still keep them wet, special engineering, that Dyson chap might survive". Thats a perfect touch of British humour for you.

KM is going really well. I must say it feels like organizations have passed through the hype curve and "readiness" is on the rise. Maybe I'm spoiled by the folks I meet and talk to, but when I talk about knowledge continuity, talent markets, org network analysis, work out loud, expertise location or even just communities of practice, there's a genuine interest and readiness. Exciting!

We didn't get the house and I learned that's called "being gazumped". I googled it and sure enough its real. Its when someone swoops in and takes a property from you at the last minute. It sounds like no one is happy about it, but it happens. No worries, we'll find another spot.

I was writing an email today (for the house search) and I typed the word "favorites". It underlined the word in red and I thought, what, thats spelled correctly. Oh wait, they spell it favourites, so I autocorrected and sure enough that removed the red line. Funny to think that spell check doesnt know how to spell. (just kidding Brits :) )

We had kit kat and haribo (gummy bears) today in the workshop. Its interesting how different they taste. Makes me wonder if they're made differently here or if its the surroundings...so interesting... I had lots of Cadbury chocolate because that tastes better here and I learned a new chocolate called Kinder which looks like kit kat but is solid chocolate. Love it.

Did you know they talk about "stones" for their weight here? You weigh "9 stones" or "15 stones" or you "just lost a stone". I think a stone is about 12 or 14 pounds, something like that. I'm probably the last to know all of these things :) I think I've said this one before but a pretty common phrase is "you alright?", it means "how are you?", I like it a lot and I'm using it already.