After badly neglecting my livejournal I figure it's due some TLC. So what's up with me?  I'm back in school, doing fairly well.  I've got an Intro to literature class that rocks.  The teacher is awesome...saying 'Oh my God!' at one point.  Then at another point I was nearly in tears.  The first three episodes have been well written, acted and just awesome in general.  Can't wait until this Thursday!

Children and guns a dangerous mix: 4-year-old shoots father Hayat Al-Ghamdi | Arab News   ABHA: A four-year-old boy accidentally killed his father while playing with...must come down, and falling bullets have been known to injure or even kill unfortunate people. Hunting trips can also result in accidental death or injury. — With input by Fatima Sidiya

Arab country 'cooperates with Mossad' Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:27:02 GMT Assassinated Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh The Israeli spy agency Mossad may have used intelligence provided by an Arab country...attributed to the Israeli regime is the assassination of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement's top commander Imad Mughniyah and Syrian army officer Brigadier-General Mohammed Suleiman. --MORE--

Today is my one month anniversary in Saudi. I think I am still in the “Everything is new and fascinating” phase. I am a bit weepy but not at anything in particular. I think I am just emotional in general...and I dont want my stuff to stink. There are other issues such as the fact that I will be trying to make a bit of bootleg and as a Muslim I dont know how she will feel about this. Only time will tell.

"Most Beautiful Goat" Competition in Saudi Arabia... a Damascene goat named Qahr was the winner... but hey, I think Sophie Cabra, Rubix, Pludge, Cherry Blossom, etc., and Amalthea too... are all way prettier...goats!!!    OMG, how do you get goat poo out of an oriental carpets??  (Hmmm, you probably just throw it away and buy a new one with all the money America is sending them.) Later, Harv    

"Harrat Khaybar, Saudi Arabia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station. The western half of the Arabian peninsula contains not only...during some periods of volcanic activity. Today, however, the regional climate is hyperarid - little to no yearly precipitation - leading to an almost total lack of vegetation." Source: NASA

Reportedly fed up with the posturings of Iran's oil minister and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Saudia Arabia has walked out of OPEC meetings and declared that it will increase production in order to meet the... Brazil, which recenty discovered what may be the world's largest oil fields in its territory. http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/09/11/the-death-of-opec.aspx?GT1=33009

Yesterday I did something that few people get to do in their lifetime. I hiked through a Saudi desert. It was physically one of the hardest things I have done in my life. Just so you know its not all sand...the Hash House Harriers  you will get a better idea of what Im doing. Next week they are camping overnight and I am going with them. How fucking awsome is that, camping in the the Saudi desert. 

Posted Sep 11 2008, 07:01 AM by Douglas McIntyre   Saudi Arabia walked out on OPEC yesterday, saying it would not honor the cartel's production cut. It was tired of rants from Hugo Chavez... “Saudi Arabia will meet the market’s demand,” a senior OPEC delegate told the New York Times . “We will see what the market requires and we will not leave a customer without oil." --MORE--

Friday 22nd August 2008 Letter to: Prince Saud al-Faisal bin 'Abdul 'Aziz Al-Saud - Minister of Foreign Affairs, SAUDI ARABIA About: See Wednesday 20th August 2008