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Jan. 23rd, 2003 07:05 pmThe weather sucks today. There has been a miserable drizzle all day long. Can't tell the sky from the water and my frame of mind is about as gray. i am solar powered. i need sun. i am a solar vampire. i need sun to survive. i can kill when i go too long without sun. It seems the older i get, the less time 'too long' is. Right now i'm running at about 12 hours. Beware.
i should have taken the camera with us today to the desert. We couldn't get the dog's run in because there is so much standing water. i counted 9 cars stuck in wet sand. A couple will be there until summer i expect. i have no idea why anyone would deliberately take a car, four-wheel drive or not, through water of an unknown depth. The mind boggles.
Then there was the car wreck. Am not even sure what direction the vehicle was traveling. It ended up on it's nose in the median, after rolling for what looks to be at least three times. It is a puzzlement, no skid marks, no other car involved, and probably no pilot's lisence, because that's what it looked like he must have been doing, flying, to get placed the way it ended up. i say he, but it could have been a woman just as easily. Women drivers here drive as if allah is their personal protector. Big SUVs and little or no regard for the passengers in the car with them or the other drivers on the road. i've often felt this is their time of control. Or revenge, they could be out to personally do away with every Arab male in Kuwait and some non-Arab males too.
Master has spent the day putting a counter in the maid's room for me. He will hook up a transformer so i can use the 110 volt appliances we have. The counter top is marble so i can also use it for pastry making and stuff like that there. Very nice. Downside is, the maid's room floor is carpetted. A bit less inviting to bake in there because of that, but hey, what are vacuums for?
Apparently the authorities have apprehended a suspect in the shooting incident. i have to say the military people we see certainly are much more vigilant. Fortunately for me, they still wave back. i'm not sure what would happen to my emotional well being if that stopped. i need that affirmation that they recognize me as being here and happy to have them here also.
i should have taken the camera with us today to the desert. We couldn't get the dog's run in because there is so much standing water. i counted 9 cars stuck in wet sand. A couple will be there until summer i expect. i have no idea why anyone would deliberately take a car, four-wheel drive or not, through water of an unknown depth. The mind boggles.
Then there was the car wreck. Am not even sure what direction the vehicle was traveling. It ended up on it's nose in the median, after rolling for what looks to be at least three times. It is a puzzlement, no skid marks, no other car involved, and probably no pilot's lisence, because that's what it looked like he must have been doing, flying, to get placed the way it ended up. i say he, but it could have been a woman just as easily. Women drivers here drive as if allah is their personal protector. Big SUVs and little or no regard for the passengers in the car with them or the other drivers on the road. i've often felt this is their time of control. Or revenge, they could be out to personally do away with every Arab male in Kuwait and some non-Arab males too.
Master has spent the day putting a counter in the maid's room for me. He will hook up a transformer so i can use the 110 volt appliances we have. The counter top is marble so i can also use it for pastry making and stuff like that there. Very nice. Downside is, the maid's room floor is carpetted. A bit less inviting to bake in there because of that, but hey, what are vacuums for?
Apparently the authorities have apprehended a suspect in the shooting incident. i have to say the military people we see certainly are much more vigilant. Fortunately for me, they still wave back. i'm not sure what would happen to my emotional well being if that stopped. i need that affirmation that they recognize me as being here and happy to have them here also.
