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I’m trying to set a world record for blogging. Well not really but who knows.

I’m now in Frankfurt, the last post was from Bahrain and if I post when I get to Calgary that is three continents in less than 24 hours.

The flights were Kuwait to Bahrain then Bahrain to Frankfurt on Gulf Air. Bahrain airport looks like it has good duty free and prices but not time or money. It is of course, Gulf Air’s home. Gulf Air has a nice lounge there, good free wireless. I am paying for this one in the Lufthansa Lounge.

The flight to Frankfurt had very little overhead storage. No central section which made the plan feel larger but no space for bags! I wouldn’t say Gulf Air is the best airline, but it wasn’t bad.

Frankfurt Weather
As you see below cloudy. Coming in for landing at 7:30 a.m. you couldn’t see the ground. Of course I don’t plan on going outside, not worth it in the time I have.

Well the next flight is at 2:00 p.m. so 6 1/2 hours to kill in the lounge.

I put my name on the list for a shower and as I have so much time I actually got my shower two hours after being on the list! Of course this was a busy morning here.

Now while I went to the shower I shutdown the computer and the stupid Vodaphone Internet that I paid for kept counting time. So only a few minutes left.

Well, tonight I’m outta here. Back to Calgary to pack up house and family and all return to Kuwait together in January.

Use this site to see where you end up! Though it seems to jam up for Calgary and seems to end up in Antartica.

And it this wasn’t fun try this optical illusion.

Check this out too, it shakes windows.

Vitamin W, the W being Wasta.

What is it?

It is, as the Kuwait Times says, having the right man in the right place. Connections. Basically the paper is saying that there are unqualified officials in their positions due to their connections not due to merit.

Isam Bayazidi’s Blog says it well:

To start with, there is a special type of corruption, that is Wasta (English: a mean, mechanism, medium), and sometimes we even give it a nickname Vitamin Wow ( as it gives power and so). Wasta for those who are unfamiliar with the term is about having someone in a power position do something (legal or illegal) for you (a favor) that couldn’t be done without a wasta. The funny thing is that we don’t usually hide our acts when we use Wasta, but we brag about it, and offer providing the same wasta to people around us to help them out

He also mentions in his blog the World Culture Forum which just took place in Jordan. Interesting. I think Jordan is on the vacation list. It is cheap to get to from here and there is even SCUBA.

Updated! New posts below. The problem is from the room I stay in I can’t get at this blog properly to update it. Strange. I’m in Starbucks now doing the updates of saved stuff.

I was at the beach in the Hilton Club this afternoon and the water looks clear. So maybe Thursday’s dive will be awesome. I can hardly wait!

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I’m having some issues getting at the site to post and upload images.

But, stay tuned. This weekend there should be a spate of new postings! I’ll backdate them to when they should have been posted if the Internet cooperated.

I was even on the phone to the web provider last night, and they say all is OK based on trace-routing etc. by me.

And there’s a big dive planned for Thursday!