I'm a total slacker at this

In my mind I just wrote a blog entry a couple weeks ago.

I just checked in I last wrote the first week of January.

That's just laziness people. Pure laziness.

I work well with lists, so here's what I'll go over today in a few posts to break it up:

- Middle east relations

- Jo's birthday

- Paco and the train

- learning french and making crepes

I haven't talked about work at all on here, and I'll try to keep it that way for the most part. But when work takes me to the Middle east I'm going to spend a few minutes on it.

So, I'm

 working on a project in the UAE that involves restoring this old mud fort and building an exhibition space and cultural centre on the site to celebrate the life and culture of the Emirate people. Cool project and cooler that I got a chance to go down for a few days.

When I think of the UAE I think of Dubai and Abu Dhabi and there ultra skyscrapers and crazy development. I was staying in Abu Dhabi and I definitely saw some developements that were outragous and amazing all at the same time. I passed one site that was being built at once...which included 27 towers, 7 hotels and a conference center. In essence they we building something the size of Pittsburgh in one go. Amazing.

My project is in a town called Al Ain which is an oasis town on the border of Oman.

I'll not bore you with project details, but here are a couple pics from that trip....