Working Conditions in the Phoenix Office

Here's what my Phoenix office looks like. As you can see I seem to have plenty of working space and storage space and table space. That stack of papers in the back is just for looks...it's not pending work or anything :) You can see that I have a nice view of the construction on the building just south of ours. I wonder what's in all those overhead cupboards...I bet that's were I keep the stash of M&Ms. I wonder if working conditions in the Congo are similar???????

Destination Lubumbashi

The Freeport McMoRan accounting office for our Tenke operations is in Lubumbashi (look right in the very center of this map), a city of just over a million people in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lubumbashi is several hours away from the mine site in Fungerume. As you can see from the map, Lubumbashi is not far from Zambia. The capital of the DRC is Kansasha or Brazzaville, which is located closer to the Atlantic ocean. The inter-tribal conflicts that have plagued central Africa have occured in the Northeast part of the country...near Rwanda and Uganda. I read that it is against the law to photograph public buildings so I'm not sure how many photos I will get of the city. But I'm sure that I can get some of the office and the hotel.

Getting Ready to Go

Four of my daughters wished me goodbye. I actually asked them for a goodbye kiss too. I guess it's not too cool to kiss your Dad. Anyway, they all allowed me to kiss them, except one of them only allowed me to kiss her on the cheek. I hope the guys have the same level of success.