Nearing the end of my Contract.

Well my contract is nearing the end. The training devices are complete, the tear down begins after next week, then they will get packed and shipped to the UAE. I am not exactly sure where they will be set up, but somewhere between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. I will start looking at living arrangements in Dubai, (I have heard it's actually cheaper to live there). I have applied for a position there but the interviews will not get started until next week. I feel fairly confident I will get a job there. I was asked if I would consider staying in St. Louis, but they would have to make me an offer first, before I could consider anything.I have met the Emirati Technicians that will be working with us there and look forward to working with them in country.I will be breaking here for the holidays on the 22 of December, Kim is flying out to help me drive back to Va. After the new year I will return to STL until my contract expires and I get hired for UAE. After that I don't have any idea about anything. The shipping will take about 6 weeks and The RFT date is around mid march. My guess is I will be over there by mid February. That will provide enough time to find a place to live, and get a lot of the paper work for visa's started at least. If they are as slow as Kuwait was it will take at least two months. I certainly hope not. I really need to talk to the international relocation people to find out what will be required, things like driver license renewals, passports (mine is good for another 6 years).

September 2011

So much to talk about, but nothing really to say. I had another birthday on the 10th and of course the 10 year remembrance of 9/11 . Such a sad time in our history. I am on a vacation of sorts. I took two weeks off starting the first of September and have just 2 more days at home before I have to leave and head back to St. Louis, Mo.
Kim flew out to St. Louis for the last week of August, so we took a side trip and drove up to her Aunts house in Wisconsin. It was as nice trip up and back. We only stayed for a night, but Kim was able to see her aunts and uncles she had not seen for 5 years. It was nice also having a traveling companion for the 15 hour drive back to Virginia. I will miss her company for the solo trip back.

Working Again

Well I am not in Kuwait, but I hope to soon be back in the middle east, this time in UAE. I am currently in St. Louis, Missouri, working on the equipment that will be delivered early next year (2012).

The BIG One!

I missed it. The big one that is. I have been witness to quite a few sand storms while I was living in Kuwait, the biggest one I remember was in April 2008. There were also a few minor ones periodically, but the last one that I read about was March 25, 2011. THAT WAS A VERY BIG STORM. I watched in awe at the video and the photo's people had taken.
Kim has some friends still in Kuwait and a few people believed it was the end of the world.
I have included three shots of the April 2008 sandstorm. Call me crazy but I really miss Kuwait.