I've been busy

For those few who do eventually decide to read my posts, either because they find them at least midly amusing/interesting, or because you are my Mother, I apologize for the lack writing lately; I've been busy.

On the heels of a 4 day trip back out to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, I am back in Cairo ready to tackle this new work week.

I definately have some great stories to tell, but some I'll keep for when we meet again in person just to have something cool to talk about. Kind of like the goats that can climb trees in Morocco. Remember that one boys?

Some things that shoot out that I want to share right now are:

Emiratis will always make me laugh.

Read the '4 hour work week'

Listen to Randy Pausch's speech. Oprah's version is condensed and gets the point out, but if you ahve the time, watch the original.

Thanks to Emmy for the lunch outside the Burj.

Thanks to Hani for the hospitality as always.

Thanks to Daisy for showing how easy and hard it is to go at it alone.

Thanks to Ellen for text messages.

And even if that big Nigerian in traditional wear sits next to you on the plane and smells like sweaty ass, don't let it get to you and start cursing him in your mind- they always turn out to be super nice people. Appearances are illusions. Sure smell is not, and he still could have done something about it - but his niceness made up for his rancid smell. I dunno if that makes any sense, but yeah, he was a cool guy really.