my pad

i haven't been blogging lately, sorry. jules got to egypt at 2AM on valentine's day, so we've been catching up and working. i was "lent" to a site near alexandria (3 hours away) for a couple days to check some foundation work. this is the same site i'd been to two times before. i was supposed to be there sunday-tuesday. jules asked TheLead if she could go too, because right now, she's auditing wiring diagrams which can be done anywhere with her drawings and a computer, so she went up with me on saturday night. on sunday, i went to work and got as much work done as they had ready, they told me to take monday and tuesday off in alex, then come back wednesday. i called them on tuesday night and found out they wouldn't be ready until thursday. i went to work thursday, finished up the work, and jules and i got back to cairo around 4PM. so, and original 3 days job (theoretically, 24 hours of work), turned out to be 6 days totaling ABOUT 8 hours of work and 3 days vacationing in alex on the mediterranean sea. lovely.

anyways, last friday, on our day off, i made a video tour of our apartment in maadi. i've just recently gotten internet access good enough (i'm stealing it now until i can get the internet guy here maybe monday) to upload the vid. i'm putting out a pseudo-open invitation to anyone who can afford to fly to egypt and has a passport, get in touch. we have plenty of spare bedrooms, and we know a good personal taxi driver to take you around town. if i don't like you, i'll just come up with an excuse like "our schedules are really busy around that time" or something, hah. so, here's our place (if you are having issues with playing this in firefox, let me know. i know it works in IE, check it out there)...