Lets start by asking you to forgive me as this post is a bit incoherent, i have been in the terminal almost 8 hours and my mind is starting to go from the boredom. To give it scope of boring, back in KAF were there is officially nothing to do in your spare time I may post a entry every few weeks, its been less then three hours and i'm posting again....
I think there is a school of design when it comes to air port terminals. I think they are all about movement. The seats are uncountable so you can't really sit for too long before you have to stand up and move just to get blood flow back. When you do sit it give you a chance to people watch as they take there turn on the journey to no ware specific. I have a conspiracy theory that they want to tire people out for the flights so they will sleep instead of bugging the flight crew.
Right now i am camped out next to recharge centre to get some juice back into the little net-book. Its a bit of a people way station for the technically dependent. As we are not far from the McDonald’s you see the odd person stop and have to decide what is more important to feed them selves or there electronics.
This decision has to be made often by the electronic junky. It could be why the truly nerdy only seem to come in two sizes, boney or spherical. All dependent on which side is more often found to be heaver in ones mental scale of importance.
The poor guy next to me is trying his best not to be notice as he hogs most of the plugs in the recharge booth, as he charges a laptop, cell phone, mp3 player, and camera. I'm waiting for any moment for him to pull out a GPS or a portable DVD player.
Dubia is the Vegas of the middle east and the air port very much reflects that. The people going by are a equal mix from the four corners of the world. In any given moment i may see a tall blond in high heel boots and a skin tight tank top walking next to a women in a fully clad black berkas.
Some of the people travailing with me have gone to the emirates lounge. You pay $60 US for 4 hours and you get access to leather couches you can actually sleep on, shower facilities and as much cheep booze as you can hold. I have avoided this temptation in the hope i may get some sleep on the 8 hour flight to London.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Dubai
Ya! Dubai terminal three has free wi-fi internet. Status Report, first of four flights is down.
Dubai for reasons I'm not totally clear has most of there international flights leaving in the wee hours of the morn. For example my flight leaves at three am. Now as my last flight got in at six pm i have a few hours to sit ... and .... umm .... post a blog entry.
I need to avoid the huge duty free here, you can get cigarettes, whisky, wine, and chocolate here for way too cheep. Fortunate for me i don't take part in much of the above other then the chocolate but a few other travel mates are not the same, one seems to be drooling over the $100 21 year-old Glenfiddich. What my bane here is the two books stores here, thank goodness they don't have history or science sections, its mostly light reading.
Any way the battery on my little netbook is starting to run dry so I'll post the next chance i get ....
Dubai for reasons I'm not totally clear has most of there international flights leaving in the wee hours of the morn. For example my flight leaves at three am. Now as my last flight got in at six pm i have a few hours to sit ... and .... umm .... post a blog entry.
I need to avoid the huge duty free here, you can get cigarettes, whisky, wine, and chocolate here for way too cheep. Fortunate for me i don't take part in much of the above other then the chocolate but a few other travel mates are not the same, one seems to be drooling over the $100 21 year-old Glenfiddich. What my bane here is the two books stores here, thank goodness they don't have history or science sections, its mostly light reading.
Any way the battery on my little netbook is starting to run dry so I'll post the next chance i get ....
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Packing light
To Bring, or Not to Bring, that is the dilemma. Whether its calmer in the mind to wonder the lost and damage of outrageous transfers, or to take ones luggage a lack of volume. And by compressing stuff then. To fly to move, no rest; and by a move to go we must.
The problem is Dubai. As we now are not free to enter the city with out much paper changing hands some of which being monies it now limited to air port transfers. To make this transfer of one person is quite easy, the question, the dilemma, the mystery, is if your check luggage will do the same. As we go from the charter terminal to the main emirates terminal. This is done with a third party escort service. When I say escort service I don't mean pretty girls of a willing nature who laugh at all your jokes, I mean a bunch of shift workers who are a thousand miles from home who could care less if your flight leaves in ten hours or ten mines and who may at some point move your check luggage but you won't know till you get to your destination.
So i am here after my last shift before vacation packing and unpacking my backpack trying to see what i can get in and still have it small enough to be considered carry on. Things i have sacrificed at this point is a half finished pewter mold of St. George slaying a dragon, a few trinkets i was going to give away, and my sewing kit.
Curious on what the weather will be like at the other end, here its just above 20 C with the sun out. We've not had rain in a week so every thing has dried up but not so much to fill the air with dust. It really doesn’t get much nicer here, and i am leaving. Hmm.. I think this vacation could have been timed better.
What ever the weather it will be nice to be home with a place of my own. See you all soon.
The problem is Dubai. As we now are not free to enter the city with out much paper changing hands some of which being monies it now limited to air port transfers. To make this transfer of one person is quite easy, the question, the dilemma, the mystery, is if your check luggage will do the same. As we go from the charter terminal to the main emirates terminal. This is done with a third party escort service. When I say escort service I don't mean pretty girls of a willing nature who laugh at all your jokes, I mean a bunch of shift workers who are a thousand miles from home who could care less if your flight leaves in ten hours or ten mines and who may at some point move your check luggage but you won't know till you get to your destination.
So i am here after my last shift before vacation packing and unpacking my backpack trying to see what i can get in and still have it small enough to be considered carry on. Things i have sacrificed at this point is a half finished pewter mold of St. George slaying a dragon, a few trinkets i was going to give away, and my sewing kit.
Curious on what the weather will be like at the other end, here its just above 20 C with the sun out. We've not had rain in a week so every thing has dried up but not so much to fill the air with dust. It really doesn’t get much nicer here, and i am leaving. Hmm.. I think this vacation could have been timed better.
What ever the weather it will be nice to be home with a place of my own. See you all soon.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
less then a week
With less then a week left till i am home time is starting to slow down....... I'm trying to keep my self busy finishing a linen shirt and carving my first pewter badge mold ready for testing when i get home. I do the test here but sadly someone killed the hot plate trying to make KD in the rain. Before any one ask and as much as i like KD, it wasn't me.
I hate to admit it but the only thing on my mind is food. Try not to snack at work, enduring the de-fac food, trying not to spend money on boardwalk take-out. We did get some extra snack food as food supply try to empty sea-containers. We got BACON!!!. Frozen, some what stale, pre-cooked bacon, but its still bacon. Its a real battle to lose wight here when we spend so much time waiting for the chaos of the move to start, it's a good time to go on vocation.
The office is still slow, there is not much happening and we can see the list of things to do build up for the move out. None of that we can touch till we get the OK to start packing. So we sit and wait, we get the odd printer call that breaks up the day... At the same time a number of people who have been here for a while are leaving. So we will have a office of relatively new people.
The newest kid on the block is a young guy from our inventory department. Need to gag the little disgruntled demon in ones head that tells you that you have school and career experience and make the same as him who has none but he is hard working and eager to learn and with the big move coming up that is worth a lot more to us then some know-it-all who sits around all day.
So all that is left is to count the days and hours till i am back on a plane...
PS: My list of things to Eat when home: Sushi, A holiday foul with all the fixings, Tourtiere, A proper Pizza, A proper Sub Sandwich, Canadian improper Chinese take out. A huge plate of Nachos, A salad that’s made of things other then lattice, cucumber and olives. A sauce that didn't come from a very large tin. To just eat with a metal fork and a ceramic plate, And of course a box of old fashion Kraft dinner.
I hate to admit it but the only thing on my mind is food. Try not to snack at work, enduring the de-fac food, trying not to spend money on boardwalk take-out. We did get some extra snack food as food supply try to empty sea-containers. We got BACON!!!. Frozen, some what stale, pre-cooked bacon, but its still bacon. Its a real battle to lose wight here when we spend so much time waiting for the chaos of the move to start, it's a good time to go on vocation.
The office is still slow, there is not much happening and we can see the list of things to do build up for the move out. None of that we can touch till we get the OK to start packing. So we sit and wait, we get the odd printer call that breaks up the day... At the same time a number of people who have been here for a while are leaving. So we will have a office of relatively new people.
The newest kid on the block is a young guy from our inventory department. Need to gag the little disgruntled demon in ones head that tells you that you have school and career experience and make the same as him who has none but he is hard working and eager to learn and with the big move coming up that is worth a lot more to us then some know-it-all who sits around all day.
So all that is left is to count the days and hours till i am back on a plane...
PS: My list of things to Eat when home: Sushi, A holiday foul with all the fixings, Tourtiere, A proper Pizza, A proper Sub Sandwich, Canadian improper Chinese take out. A huge plate of Nachos, A salad that’s made of things other then lattice, cucumber and olives. A sauce that didn't come from a very large tin. To just eat with a metal fork and a ceramic plate, And of course a box of old fashion Kraft dinner.
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