Posted by Mark Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:31:37 GMT
or picture, should I say - all the others seem to have gone MIA.
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The dancer on stage is a whirling dervish. I was under the impression that it was a more solemn, religious, rite: this guy was almost a Vegas performer. Regardless, it was certainly a spectacular act, and the food was amazing - I practically rolled out the door.
Posted by Mark Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:04:20 GMT
i’ve learnt to climb. The last few days have been all about clambering over set pieces, working out which cable to plug into where.
Not much actual strapping: Basheer & company are too good at that for me to bother even trying any more.
I’m off to another Ramadan tent tomorrow night - let’s see if I manage to find the last pics before I go to the next one.
(still sick, manfully ignoring my death-rattles.)
Posted by Mark Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:17:27 GMT
life is somewhat frantic lately. I’ve moved from being an expert doing difficult things to a newbie doing chumpy things: I’m in charge of a gang of electricians now, but my role is more or less an interpreter. Stephen tells me what he wants done, and I point the Indian electricians at the problem - the last three times I tried to actually do some work, Basheer looked at me with a funny grin, then undid all my work and redid it competently.
This rapidly becomes demoralising.
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Still, Basheer is a major league gun, and I don’t take too much offence.
Today was mostly spent outside, clambering all over a set piece. I drank about 5 litres and sweated 10 - working outside in Qatar is a whole other experience. I’m also the least graceful climber they’ve ever seen, I think: while they jump and skip over the structure, I laboriously find my three points of contact. I’m always happy to provide entertainment.
Oh, for those keeping score: my tonsillitis is still intact, apparently. On some different meds now. They offered to rip them out at the hospital, but apparently the 1st of December is the first appointment I can get, which is the date of the opening ceremony - I suspect that I’ll be awake 20 hours a day round that time, so there doesn’t seem much chance of getting surgery recovery time. Till then, beer is my medication.
Posted by Mark Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:04:26 GMT
This is ridiculous. I post more about getting sick than I do about music or technology or girls or _anything_ that I actually like. I’ve got some illicit antibiotics and I’m seeing the doctor to get a medical certificate tomorrow.
I have some Ramadan tent photos and a heap of stuff to write about, but it’s hard to focus on anything that isn’t phlegm right now.
