Mister Ian's Weblog

It officially started today. I now have have an agent and went and looked at one today. It is 5 minutes from the beach. There is a large building between the house and the ocean. It is located in a good are with walking to a number of restaurants. It consists of two units in one building:

1. The Ground Floor
   It has two massive sitting rooms, as they call them here plus a very large hallway. The kitchen is large with stone countertops. It needs a stove, fridge and modification if a dishwasher is added. You can put a small table in the area at the side of the kitchen, but not full size. There is a wrap around porch which doesn’t serve much. There are two bedrooms. Both fairly large. One potential is that one of the sitting rooms could be converted into a bedroom.
2. Second and third floor
   The second floor has one sitting room and two bedrooms. The kitchen is small with not much room for storage or eating area. There is the third story with laundry room of adequate size and a maids room.

This is where I am living:

And this is my car:

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This is not my site! But, I suppose anyone called Ian must have good ideas. I tried the secure knot, it works, just be careful that it might be too hard to untie.

Ian’s Shoelace Site – Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot

If you don’t recall, Thursday and Friday are the weekend days here. I don’t think I will every get used to it. Mostly that the work week starts on Saturday.

I’m hanging out in the Kuwait Hilton Starbucks, it is nearly midnight and there is no slowing down.

As it is Ramadan, places open at 5:00 in the evening and close very late. They close here at 2:30 am. I’m sure I won’t last until then. I’m going to pack it in very soon.

So after the partial dive trip, I had a big snooze then went to a local Sahaja Yoga meditation nearby. That ended at 7:00 pm then I went to a different place for dinner, Applebees. The dinner was a bit more expensive than normal. Though here you can’t really think about things like what it costs in Canada. Everything western is a bit more expensive, period.

It was 7.5 KD. Not cheap, I usually spend 2 or 3 KD for dinner. (Multiply the KDs by 4 to get Canadian dollars) That was for a juice, salad and a steak and salmon dinner. Good food, and a change from the usual Lebanese style cuisine that I have. Certainly during Ramadan with no lunch the big dinner isn’t too bad, though it is really at least a third more than one needs!