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  • Technical Difficulties

    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!

    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!

  • Hello is anyone there?


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    A phone booth in Salmiya area near the Indian Community School.

  • My favorite distraction

    Coral Egan

    Her album has original writing, original lyrics, not the usual drivel, and she’s got a nice smoothness to her voice. You can see it in amazon.ca but not on amazon.com

    There is an interesting article on her here.

  • The new weeks starts – inane post

    Well, not a bad day so far. 7 hours sleep. That’s OK.

    And so cold here, I had to wear my down vest to take off the chill getting into the car, so cold at 12 degrees C.

    And the drive was nice. Light traffic and no fog, nice sun behind my back, listening to Concierto de Araunjuez. It skips in a few spots due to the old CD player in the car, but a very nice disk.

    It is fortuitous that the office is west of Kuwait City. It would be much more hazardous driving into the sun morning and afternoon!

    Wore my new shoes today. The fancy ones. Only problem is it make my pants look a bit short!

    Well, so comfortable with a thin leather sole and such soft leather. Fits like a glove. But at the end of the day, looking at the sole wear I don’t think they would last very long. At work walking on just a bit of gravel and the wear really shows.

    I may as well wear them. I bought a new suit in Calgary last August (was it that long ago!) for here but the daily wear in the office in West Kuwait is fairly casual as it is an Operations Area. But mostly when I go to Main Office or other meetings I wear a dress shirt and often a tie.

    And for all the latest news in Kuwait go to Kuwait Times

  • More on diving and reefs

    Update: Check out some new ways to create reefs.

    The Kuwait Dive Team which varies in membership and activity level has done many things particularly they have previously installed many mooring buoys. This is very important for the reefs. The placing of anchors from boats absolutely destroys the delicate coral which would take hundreds of years to regrow if ever. There are also companies that do reef balls like the Kuwait Reef Ball Company which I’ve not heard of until seeing their web site.

    From this page on reef ball deployments:

    “Scuba divers are the only group of humans on the planet that see, from day to day, the amount of destruction going on in our world’s oceans.”

    In fact, I honestly now eat fish, particularly local fish with a different perspective. Now that I’ve been swimming with them and know that they are overfished, it seems different. Last month seeing an actual cuttlefish in the ocean for the first time changes my perspective of it in the Chinese restaurants. Wow, so many years eating cuttlefish and not knowing what it looks like.

    Aside:
    Tide is important while diving. Very important as it makes the currents and changes the water depth here by up to two meters. You can go to EasyTide to get free tide predictions.