It's still hot. It beat 122 yesterday, today is a cool 105.
Today my work laptop crashed. The hard drive isn't saying anything so the mother board doesn't know it's there. I have suspicions on what happened, but I'm not throwing stones at anyone. They gave me a loaner with the Arabic characters on the keys. Great. It has standard too but like looking at a speedometer for the KM's.
One more work day, an off day and the the long trek over Iran, Russia, maybe Norway, Greenland, undefined Arctic, then Canada, and finally Washington. Wow I'm eager to come home.
Some observations.
Taxi's are easy and safe. All of the cream body ones are government regulated and pretty cheap. They have different roof colors for the company ID, but you ignore that.
Traffic is crazy. They have few signals, but a lot, a LOT of those darn roundabouts. Chaos in motion.
My host likes to text and drive. ALL THE TIME. Enough said about that.
Lots of construction. They have a 2020 worlds fair they are working on.
There are about 3-5 english tv channels, all with Arabic subtitles. They rest are a host of other languages.
There are few citizens here compared to all the foreign imported workers. There is no path to being a citizen for those people.
The TV commercials are really concerned with cleaning products. There are a pair of ladies that keep popping up have the best time cleaning toilets.
Speaking of toilets, all of the johns here have a host to wash up your neither regions.
The hotel makes lousy scrambled eggs, but other than the fruit, its about all that is recognizable. \
Coming Home Soon!
Dad
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