That’s what Ramadan is good for. I get to leave earlier than last year (because our CEO no longer spends time at the Kuwait office) so I get a nap between 4 and 6pm. There’s nothing else to do anyway. Everything except grocery stores are closed until 7:30 or 8pm. And the grocery stores are [...]
It’s August 24th. Seven more days and this month is over. I will have survived another August. I have been trying to understand my time out here in the desert. Not “Time” in the abstract. I mean the minutes, the hours, the days. Work takes up most of it. The gym rates about five hours [...]
Almost. It should be Saturday if that lonely shepherd sees the moon. It might be hard considering how hazy everything is (dust). And humid. And 120 degrees (a standard). As a reminder – Ramadan lasts for a month and you are not allowed to eat, smoke or drink in public during the daylight hours. It’s [...]
I saw Hillary’s little outburst in the Congo last night (that you, Jon Stewart). It was very funny. Here you have some poor guy who has this one-in-a-lifetime opportunity, gets his question mangled by a translator and then gets snapped at by our Secretary of State. Where did she think she was? Did she actually [...]
A twelve year old boy lives in an apartment complex with his Mom. He has no friends and gets beat up a lot because he is slight and studious. He dreams of getting revenge on his tormentors, but can’t find the nerve to stand up to them. A twelve year old girl moves in next [...]
Today begins the month of August. I hate August. August is one of the rings of Hell. Dante actually wrote about August, though he didn’t call it that specifically. But I knew… August is a dead month. Our grass is always dead. It is always too hot and muggy (and this is always true despite [...]
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