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 4th, 2010
We’re all moved in now. Our stuff was all delivered and we’ve spent the last few days somehow cramming it into our condo, which is about a third the size of our Emirates apartment. I’ve spent what seems like endless hours hauling boxes around, and my feet hurt and my hands are swollen. I’m 40 years old and have always been a white collar worker, so all this hauling is hard on me. Now that everything is in place, the condo is quite nice. A little cramped, but we’ll be comfortable here. Bug is very happy to have his toys back. We had cable and internet installed today, to finish it all off, and we now have HBO, Cinemax, and… drumroll… HD. I have an HDTV but there was no HD in the Emirates, so I haven’t been able to appreciate my TV properly. Let me tell you something. HD rocks. Maybe you already know this, but I’ve been out in the bush for the last 9 years remember, and so HDTV is actually somewhat new for me. And it kicks ass.
