Empire Building

6 December - Did a bit of Skyping last night wit home, reminded me of what i've left behind. Felt a bit of melancholy which didnt last very long. Very quiet day at work again today - caught up with Dimitri in the morning who seemed ready to go out on his own. Had a few jobs around town before i was dispatched back into the core for a new trainee! The new guy, Flowers, was pretty young but very eager and despite the fact that we weren't busy he seemed to be pretty fast and didn't have any trouble picking up the use of the tools. It certainly seems like Novex is building up the biker team and i seem to have trained most of them. I hope i'm leaving the right impression - i'm a bit crap with the paperwork (very bad at collecting the proper signatures but i don't think theyre very necessary) and i'm always adding the proviso when teaching my apprentices, 'Do as i say, not as i do'. Flowers, like all of the people that i've trained, is a really sound person although he did seem to ask rather personal questions, some inocuous (Who's your favourite band? Who's your favourite author?), some a bit confronting (Do you have any real ambitions? Have you ever been in love???). It also seems that i'll be training somebody again tomorrow - upon hearing this news i was a bit miffed. It's fun doing it but it does slow me down a bit, which cuts into the amount of money i make, however, i was informed today that i'll be getting reimbursed for the sharing of my immense knowledge of the industry (not a huge amount of cash, but signficant enough to ensure i'm not resentful towards my charges). Also, whilst leaving one of the buildings today, i heard a familiar accent coming from another courier, i trned to him and said, 'You must be the other Australian!', he looked at me and said, 'Yeah, i've heard of you too!!!' - very nice guy from Canberra-Perth-Sydney (all over then) who's been working here for about four months. Already forgotten his name but have seen him around and will surely see him again. Ate some wendys after work, which didn't really agree with me, the two doughnuts I met after that really didn't agree with me either so I 'ET EM!!!