After a brief hiatus (and much harassment from a couple of regulars - I'm talking to you, DH) it's about time I get back to updating this thing. What's new in six weeks? A lot, really. Started a new job, won a 25-hour endurance kart race, broke a few ribs on a botched landing while attempting the big jump at Ski Dubai, and have just recently started apartment hunting - we're finally movin' on up to the east side and out of the ghetto that is Bur Dubai.
In my absence it also seems the spam bots have been having a field day with the unsecured comment forms on this here blog, so until I get around to adding a skill testing question to beat the dumb ones back I've had to disable the feature.
The impossible has also happened here in Dubai this past month - the weather's gotten really nice. I'm talking days with 17 degree highs and 12 degree lows and lots of rain. It's only supposed to rain here a few times a year, but in the past month we've had many days of solid, heavy downpours. And what a sight it is - flash floods in the streets, major traffic calamities as everybody freaks out when they see a bit of water on the pavement, and let's also not forget the sight of locals running around wearing thick, winter rain jackets over their dish dashas.