Archive for July, 2008

The Embassy

30, Jul 2008

In the Middle East, all the airports LOVE to stamp your passport. Stamp stamp stamp stamp stamp! Thus my formerly little used passport now had about three clean pages left (they also paste your visa in there). I learned that you can add pages to your passport at the Embassy, so I [...]

Added to iPod

24, Jul 2008

So what else do you do when you’re bored and depressed except download cat pictures?
You buy music.
The first three I bought at a used CD shop in town. They even have a little sticker that says “Licensee For Saudi Arabia, UAE and Lebanon”
Rickie Lee Jones – “Ghostyhead”
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – “Broken Arrow” [...]

I Can Has Cheezburger?

23, Jul 2008

One of the greatest websites. Don’t show the dog…
more cat pictures

Watchmen

19, Jul 2008

Most of you probably don’t care, but the first real trailer for the movie The Watchmen is out and it is sweet! Watchmen is one of my favorite comic books (or “graphic novels”) and the trailer is perfect. I’ve seen it four times already (and I’m still amazed at how they get Billy [...]

Reality Check

16, Jul 2008

I would like to tell you all more about my life in Kuwait… but I don’t have one. I work 60 hours a week, eat alone, watch my DVDs or read, and sleep. There is nothing else to do.
You can’t meet anyone unless you have children. Families are everything here in [...]

Garland Jeffreys

12, Jul 2008

Our good friend Wikipedia puts is succinctly: Garland Jeffreys is an African-American and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter from Brooklyn. Is that hyphenated enough? In actuality, he was one of the best singer-songwriter’s to come out of New York. And tragically underrated. He had the unfortunate luck of having his three greatest [...]

Food

7, Jul 2008

Have you ever eaten a thick piece of cardboard with cinnamon sugar on it? I have. It’s called a Low Fat Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tart. Ghastly thing. I think they use them to make houses in Indonesia.
I truly appreciate the concern folks out there have about my (our) health. But [...]

Flying

4, Jul 2008

With young Christopher in Crete with his friends, our little family is each in a different country for this Fourth of July. What does that mean…?
I am right now in Abu Dhabi. Had to visit the office yesterday. Today is my six month anniversary of being in the Middle East and, so [...]


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