Had a great weekend with Leslie. We had a few projects we wanted to get done around the house, all of which we did. Our house hold goods came in earlier this week and we have slowly been organizing and putting things away. That too is now complete. We did some shopping in the area (again) and ate some great meals both at home and in the city.
This morning I made some espresso from the Italian espresso beans we bought yesterday at a previously unexplored local grocery store. Leslie was impressed with the espresso. I have to admit, it did taste very good. We then went for a run, then had a free breakfast after that. See Leslie's blog at www.lincolngreatadventure.blogspot.com for details about the run and breakfast.
This evening had dinner out with our friend Lou. Lou lives here on the compound and is a very nice guy from Arkansas. We like his down home nature and laid back attitude. He arrived here a couple weeks ago but it is not his first time here. He has been all over the world and intends to work about three more years, then retire. Good luck Lou!
Now enjoying some down time watching TV. I installed a free-to-air satellite dish we scrounged from here on the compound. We bought a receiver at the local Panda store for about $18. What a deal! I can get about 200 plus free channels per satellite. So far, I have maxed out the receiver memory by scanning channels on just four of the 12 or so satellites... Of those channels, I have deleted all but a couple dozen channels and kept only those that contain European or US style programming. I really do not know Arabic or any of the other myriad of languages spoken on those other channels. Well, I know a little bit of Arabic now... I can speak it well enough for greetings or to ask simple questions, but I need a LOT more work at it to be good at it. That will come along soon enough.
Not much more than that. Work is good, settling into a nice routine and enjoying our adventure in Saudi. More as life goes on!!!
This morning I made some espresso from the Italian espresso beans we bought yesterday at a previously unexplored local grocery store. Leslie was impressed with the espresso. I have to admit, it did taste very good. We then went for a run, then had a free breakfast after that. See Leslie's blog at www.lincolngreatadventure.blogspot.com for details about the run and breakfast.
This evening had dinner out with our friend Lou. Lou lives here on the compound and is a very nice guy from Arkansas. We like his down home nature and laid back attitude. He arrived here a couple weeks ago but it is not his first time here. He has been all over the world and intends to work about three more years, then retire. Good luck Lou!
Now enjoying some down time watching TV. I installed a free-to-air satellite dish we scrounged from here on the compound. We bought a receiver at the local Panda store for about $18. What a deal! I can get about 200 plus free channels per satellite. So far, I have maxed out the receiver memory by scanning channels on just four of the 12 or so satellites... Of those channels, I have deleted all but a couple dozen channels and kept only those that contain European or US style programming. I really do not know Arabic or any of the other myriad of languages spoken on those other channels. Well, I know a little bit of Arabic now... I can speak it well enough for greetings or to ask simple questions, but I need a LOT more work at it to be good at it. That will come along soon enough.
Not much more than that. Work is good, settling into a nice routine and enjoying our adventure in Saudi. More as life goes on!!!
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