This blog is to help my wife and I, itinerant expatriates, stay in touch with family and close friends. We're living in the Pearl of the Orient.
In Rome, April 2006
Vanessa on Ko Samet, Thailand, June 2011
In Kabul, Mar. 2011
In Kabul, Mar. 2011
In Dubai, Oct. 2009
"Only those who risk going too far find out how far they can go---Fringe
"There are few problems that cannot be solved with the proper application of high explosives." — U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Motto
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm"---Winston Churchill
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" --Thomas Jefferson
"Unless I sample life’s dangers I shall never know its mysteries…”---John LeCarre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." — Thomas Jefferson
“The game is rigged. But you cannot lose if you don't play.” –The Wire
“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things.” ---Yoda
"It seems to me that when you judge a man's worth, his ability to survive should be no small part of it." JV Jones SoS2
Posted in Uncategorized by Administrator on the February 1st, 2010
We almost have our stuff. Almost. The guys say they are coming at 10PM. I almost don’t believe it because they, and everyone involved with the port and customs, has been nothing but a bunch of troublesome snakes-in-the-grass. Anyway the guys better come because I want to set up my Playstation and play Fallout.
We moved out of the hotel today and are at the condo. Bug loves it here, pool, kids, playground, etc. We were also getting really sick of the hotel. I booked it cheap on hotels.com but it was still a tad expensive. Hotels.com incidentally is owned by Expedia, which is owned by Microsoft, so I inadvertently gave some money to Bill Gates. I’m sitting in the condo clubhouse, which has free wireless, and Bug is busy talking to the kids. We’re a little alarmed about how small the condo is. Our apartments in the Emirates and in Saudi were huge, actually.
HDTV cable with HBO costs $12 a month. You gotta love that. There was no HDTV in the Emirates so I’ve never actually been able to watch HDTV on my fancy TV, and I’m rather excited for the guys to come install cable.
