Maybe it's the fact that I'm home sick today, but I am extremely amused by this website: http://mafimushkil.com/. Mafimuskila means "no problem" in Arabic, thus this site dealing with "common man daily life problem". So far I have yet to find any solutions, but I am amused.
Speaking of amused, did you know that "Malaysians have "a long-standing love affair with anything big?"
Okay, back to sleep.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Sunday, January 22, 2006
National Western/Life Back in Colorado
Now that I'm back from Sudan, it's time to take advantage of all the wonders of living in Colorado. Last weekend went up to the mountains to learn to snowboard-it was a ton of fun, albeit a little painful and my rear is still bruised. Unfortunately, the camera battery died, so there is no photo evidence of my antics in the snow.
Yesterday, LM and I decided to explore the other, less bourgeois, part of that which is life in Colorado-that which is all things Western, with a trip to National Western in Denver.
We began by walking through the commercial exhibits; it was an insanity of people and small children, with booths promoting everything from the expected (hat and boots, tractors, feed chutes) to the kitschy (soy candles, colored sand layered in a jar) to the bordering on snake oil cures (fibromyalgia? headaches? the cure was there). At least I got to sit on one of the tractors:
After a fantastic dinner at the "Feedlot", a buffet with more kinds of meat than I knew existed, we took in the livestock exhibits. There were all sorts of interesting cattle (mini Herefords, Highlands), some horses, your standard sheep, and then, the most unusual, the Jacob sheep (apparently they can grow up to three sets of horns:
Next, in the interest of public health, a quick trip to the petting zoo, where we noted the signs warning of the dangers of E. coli O157:H7 and the importance of post-petting handwashing. Ah, how easy it is to make EIS officers happy.
After the high of observing public health in action, we made a quick trip to the poultry and rabbit exhibits, where I posed with my state bird and photographed rabbits for KE (to be sent via email).
Finally, we went to the draft horse and mule show. No pictures of this, but it was pretty entertaining watching mules race.
Ah, life in Colorado.
Yesterday, LM and I decided to explore the other, less bourgeois, part of that which is life in Colorado-that which is all things Western, with a trip to National Western in Denver.
We began by walking through the commercial exhibits; it was an insanity of people and small children, with booths promoting everything from the expected (hat and boots, tractors, feed chutes) to the kitschy (soy candles, colored sand layered in a jar) to the bordering on snake oil cures (fibromyalgia? headaches? the cure was there). At least I got to sit on one of the tractors:
After a fantastic dinner at the "Feedlot", a buffet with more kinds of meat than I knew existed, we took in the livestock exhibits. There were all sorts of interesting cattle (mini Herefords, Highlands), some horses, your standard sheep, and then, the most unusual, the Jacob sheep (apparently they can grow up to three sets of horns:
Next, in the interest of public health, a quick trip to the petting zoo, where we noted the signs warning of the dangers of E. coli O157:H7 and the importance of post-petting handwashing. Ah, how easy it is to make EIS officers happy.
After the high of observing public health in action, we made a quick trip to the poultry and rabbit exhibits, where I posed with my state bird and photographed rabbits for KE (to be sent via email).
Finally, we went to the draft horse and mule show. No pictures of this, but it was pretty entertaining watching mules race.
Ah, life in Colorado.
Friday, January 20, 2006
The Bat Woman of Lyme Disease
I apoligize to all four of my avid readers for the lapse in posting. Most of the lapse was due to the Sudan trip, then a little thing called the motherboard of my computer broke, meaning that my computer didn't work so well. Finally it is all fixed and I am back to the blogging business.
I will not put any explanation of my trip here on the blog as my "diary" is 15 pages single spaced. If you would really like to read it, I am happy to send it to you via email; let me know. I've posted a few more pictures here in case the 100+ I posted over on ofoto wasn't enough torture.
As for the subject of this email, I just received an appreciative email from a doctor in Alabama who called today with some questions about Lyme disease. The subject of this email is what he said I am since I am oh-so-knowledgeable. Funny.
Anyways, from the news files for today: camels in Norway, a way to create jobs for refugees. Believe it or not, despite my current obsession with camels, I just stumbled across this article. It's not like I actually look for articles on camels. Although that might be a good idea...
Finally, the photos:
sign for landmines.
for some reason the kids would all be standing and then right before you pressed the shutter they would all sit down. i didn't quite understand why, but this happened over and over.
yes, another photo of a camel
I will not put any explanation of my trip here on the blog as my "diary" is 15 pages single spaced. If you would really like to read it, I am happy to send it to you via email; let me know. I've posted a few more pictures here in case the 100+ I posted over on ofoto wasn't enough torture.
As for the subject of this email, I just received an appreciative email from a doctor in Alabama who called today with some questions about Lyme disease. The subject of this email is what he said I am since I am oh-so-knowledgeable. Funny.
Anyways, from the news files for today: camels in Norway, a way to create jobs for refugees. Believe it or not, despite my current obsession with camels, I just stumbled across this article. It's not like I actually look for articles on camels. Although that might be a good idea...
Finally, the photos:
sign for landmines.
for some reason the kids would all be standing and then right before you pressed the shutter they would all sit down. i didn't quite understand why, but this happened over and over.
yes, another photo of a camel
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