Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Back in the heart of darkness
Ah Africa, its good to be back! I didnt have a visa but that was no problem. However I had no local curency or dollars either which was fixed with usual African ingenuity. The customs offical wrote on my entrance form I was getting some money so I walked past the bagage claim area, through [...]
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Visiting the relatives
Wednesday was the same routine but we had arranged to meet up with My Uncle Paul and Aunt Rita who live in the nearby state of Sharjah. We spent the morning playing in the Wild Wadi with dads video camera crammed in his old sport housing that I had brought with me. Not a great [...]
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Monday, August 28th, 2006
Welcome to the Oven
After I had bought my flight I sent them a text saying I had bought a laptop off Ebay and it was in Dubai, hence they could bring it home with them. This was of course a lie, but I didn’t know where they we and what their plan was each day. It worked rather [...]
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
And he’s off!
Last tuesday I decided on my plan,, which was to suprise my parents in Dubai, sleep on their floor for a few days and then head off to Uganda to see some wildlife. Tibet was too much hassle and far too expensive if I was going to need 2 single flights, the burning man festival [...]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
I can’t wait for the weekend to begin….
Cos then I leave this god forsaken wet country! I went into town to get a guidebook (10% off, thanks fake student card :)) and some boots. I think I managed to put myself off spending £100 for boots I might only wear one day. My old ones will have to do I guess, but [...]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Double Yay!!
Found my CD and I booked my flight!
Destination is a suprise for now, but its warm, I get to see something few people do (and will cost me too!) and I get 2 (maybe 3) passport stamps! The CD was downstairs in the passage with my arcade cab. Phew!
Can’t wait! Now I need to go [...]
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Gah!
Where is my flipping CD!?! This is driving me insane!
Im uploading all my photos to my new website and just know that there is a CD with a load of images from when I was living in Sweden in 98 and I just can’t find it. Worst of all, I was looking at them recently [...]
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Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Another day survived
Thank god Im not on at the weekend, they got the mainframe up just before I left and they were still frantically rebuilding rack PCs , but all the real work will be done in the next 2 days. Took a few calls, ate some pizza and waited for the phone to ring.
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
1st post
wow it works, that was easy!
What a day, the rain brought the roof in at work, knocking out the datacentre and leaving me with very little to do all day. Its sure to be insane tomorrow if they manage to bring the servers back up, and if they dont I dont know why I should [...]
