Jack_Crow
Enlightened
Hi all,
My R and R in the UK has ended. Im back in my alternate realiaty.
Remember that star trek episode that featured a 'mirror universe'. That's what the mid east is. A reflection.
The first world is clean, and healthy. This is something else.
Ive come home.
It's a strange set of emotions. Not all of them are linear. Some take unepsected tracks in unhappy directions. I keep saying 5 more months.
Then I go back to the real world for keeps.
Until next time.
Just got on the ground at Kuwait International. Waiting for a call back from the company rep at Camp Doah.
Enjoying a burger king turky susage and egg sandwhich. Also a whopper of a head cold.
One of two useful things I got in the UK. Reminds me that all good things come to an end.
The other was a filling when some wonderful English Toffie yanked out an old one. Fortunatly the DDS cleared up some underlying problems in the tooth and it diden't need major repairs.
London was amazing. Wales wonderful. Even Oxford had some nice points. Dublin would be fine if I drank more. Paris, that's another story. The French im happy to report, have a clue. Amazing technology, and very security aware.
BA was two plus hours late geting us off the ground at heathrow. Seems a series of 'start trucks' diden't get the engines turning on our 777. In the mean time, what happens when 250 people are in a plane all breathing, sweating, and not having any fun for 2 hours?
Anyhow, BA put us off the plane, towed it someplace that had a working start truck, got it runing, then towed it back and put us on board.
Got to see sunrise from 35k feet, that was nice.
The bozo in front of my had his seat two stops byond the rear travel limits limits. His skull was nearly in my lap. I was sorely tempted to count all the hairs around his bald spot. I was thinking of getting out my sharpie pen and write something rude.
Anyhow, we thump down here and I get through customs with zero effort. Visit the phone kiosk, and get a local sim card for the GSM phone I purchased in London, so now I can make local calls in Kuwait.
The exchange rate from KD to dollars is steep. 1KD is worth 3 USD. So my 20KD phone service is going to be expensive. Yeech.
Found this free wireless internet connection and making use of it.
Hope all is well
Jack Crow in Kuwait
My R and R in the UK has ended. Im back in my alternate realiaty.
Remember that star trek episode that featured a 'mirror universe'. That's what the mid east is. A reflection.
The first world is clean, and healthy. This is something else.
Ive come home.
It's a strange set of emotions. Not all of them are linear. Some take unepsected tracks in unhappy directions. I keep saying 5 more months.
Then I go back to the real world for keeps.
Until next time.
Just got on the ground at Kuwait International. Waiting for a call back from the company rep at Camp Doah.
Enjoying a burger king turky susage and egg sandwhich. Also a whopper of a head cold.
One of two useful things I got in the UK. Reminds me that all good things come to an end.
The other was a filling when some wonderful English Toffie yanked out an old one. Fortunatly the DDS cleared up some underlying problems in the tooth and it diden't need major repairs.
London was amazing. Wales wonderful. Even Oxford had some nice points. Dublin would be fine if I drank more. Paris, that's another story. The French im happy to report, have a clue. Amazing technology, and very security aware.
BA was two plus hours late geting us off the ground at heathrow. Seems a series of 'start trucks' diden't get the engines turning on our 777. In the mean time, what happens when 250 people are in a plane all breathing, sweating, and not having any fun for 2 hours?
Anyhow, BA put us off the plane, towed it someplace that had a working start truck, got it runing, then towed it back and put us on board.
Got to see sunrise from 35k feet, that was nice.
The bozo in front of my had his seat two stops byond the rear travel limits limits. His skull was nearly in my lap. I was sorely tempted to count all the hairs around his bald spot. I was thinking of getting out my sharpie pen and write something rude.
Anyhow, we thump down here and I get through customs with zero effort. Visit the phone kiosk, and get a local sim card for the GSM phone I purchased in London, so now I can make local calls in Kuwait.
The exchange rate from KD to dollars is steep. 1KD is worth 3 USD. So my 20KD phone service is going to be expensive. Yeech.
Found this free wireless internet connection and making use of it.
Hope all is well
Jack Crow in Kuwait