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 illegal. Restaurants are closed (though not grocery stores). However, when the sun goes down they eat and drink until the wee hours of the morning. They party like it’s 1999. Banks are only open for three hours a day during Ramadan. Supposedly I get out at 2pm but it usually works out to be 4pm. That’s two less than 6pm so I’ll take it. My favorite part is the lack of traffic in the mornings. Granted – summer is good for that anyway, but the month of Ramadan just extends the joy. No one gets up in the morning in Kuwait… except those of us who work.

You’ve probably read a lot about Kuwait recently. First – we seem to have quite a few swine flu cases, mainly amongst our own US Military guys. Then there was the capture of suspected Al Qaeda members who had plans to blow up one of the US Military bases. They caught them buying a truck. That’s it. All they had was a truck and delusions of grandeur (or maybe they wanted to wipe out the swine flu…). Finally there was that horrible fire at a wedding in the Jahra region. Turns out the guy getting married had only just weeks before divorced another woman. That woman got into a taxi with a container of gasoline, the taxi took her to the wedding site where she got out and poured the gas on the tent, lit it and then got back in the taxi and left. And since men party separately from the women and children, all the dead were women and children. The “scorned” woman said she didn’t plan on hurting anyone… except the groom’s sisters. The government is considering banning tents.

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