Thomas singing some raffi…
well… it’s a start!
Browsing Posts published in February, 2008
its getting warm here in doha. Today it is 27 and I started sweating while I was walkign over for my morning starbucks.
I am writing this cause I am a bit afraid for what we are in for! wikipedia says he average winer temperature is 28 ad the average winter is 38… Hummm 38 is a long way to go…
Jen has been sick for a long time… turns out she caught a bug. she is on a massive amount of antibiotics and in the past 3 days we have been noticing some improvements.
The experience with the hospital was absolutely great. Through QF, we are given benefits through QIC. we walked in, handed them the card and were given front of the line service.
The hospital itself was quite modern (much more modern looking than a lot of north american hospitals) Only it turns out it was all smoke and mirrors… although they have a huge modern facility with desktops everywhere, you are still shuffled about with a paper file and all the notes are entered on the form, not the computer… two steps forward, one step back.
But, like I said, it was over all a good experience. and, we got some medical attention…
Well… it’s 24 out side, the birds are singing. I have dave mathews band playing here in Doha on a sunny, warm february afternoon…
See today holds mixed blessings.. Jen is really sick, she was up all last nigh with a stomach bug, so now I get to look after the boys. I called into work today and they were very good about it. And, on top of that, it’s nap time! Jen, the boys are all sleeping away upstairs, and I am here catching up on some of my responsibilities…
so what’s new over here..
We got a line back up for the internet, so we are at about 70% capacity. I’ll get the pics up shortly. Layne, a friend from Texas A&M loaned me a sb 600 so I get to play with that… hum. not that it is all that interesting. I am going to step outside and enjoy the weather. Hopefully I’ll have more to write in a few hours…
Dunno if you’ve heard, but there were internet cables cut on Wednesday evening in the Mediterranean… this made for a very interesting Thursday for myself and the crew I work with. I just found out that a third cable has been snipped in the persian gulf but it is less of an issue as it had some redundancy build into the design… all this is an important into to today’s post of the weekend…
Today is friday here in the warm hazy city of Doha, Qatar. we started out the day going to church, then headed down to the wheels and heels festival put on by reach out to Asia and shell petroleum. this celebration is held during the las leg of the tour of qatar, here in qatar. the tour is put on by the same people that do a little bike ride in France called the tour of qatar, but it isn’t “quite” as well known.
anyways, we went down to it. It was amazing. They had huge inflatable park equipment that the kids could play on, vendors selling stuff, bbq’s going on, tons of security guards running around and so many kids. There must have been 400 volunteers there too… just an amazing city wide picnic on a Friday afternoon. Only think that made the day kinda rough was this sand storm that blew out of nowhere… Sandstorms for the uninitiated are like fog, only the fog hurts your eyes and tastes like garbage… not a terribly nice feeling. One interesting thing though, is after being outside for 5 minutes, it kinda gets better… then after 20 minutes, your nose starts to run like crazy… amazing how the body kicks into high gear…
Thomas and I sat down and watched the bike race for a bit. there was a motorcade in front that announced it’s arrival. Then there were 3 riders who had broken away from the poleton for a bit. We took some pictures of those guys… then you hear the wind and the gears… the whizzing of the riders as they approach. a blaze of colours approach as the riders bank to attack the round about that Thomas and I are stationed at… I take one last look at him and dive behind the shutter… about 4 seconds and the whole thing is over. it is absolutely amazingly fast. so fast, so close together. quite a sight.
I have lots of pictures to upload, and I will… but I am going to wait till the internet is at least limping and not bleeding out in this area…
