Just getting around

Climbing was good today. Al the pull-ups Sue and I are doing are having a major impact on our climbing. We are getting so much stronger. We played add-a-move, creating between us a ridiculously hard traverse on the overhang.

I've been printing photographs from the Borneo expedition. It is a frustrating process. I really need to buy the hardware to profile my printer so that I can get predictable colour. I had got used to the performance I could expect from one paper stock and was achieving consistant results. Now I find that it is almost impossible to buy good paper here. Each time I change paper type, it takes me ages to get the colours right again. I keep waiting for profiling gear to come down in price, but I suppose that I will eventually have to bite the bullet.

Just getting around al Khobar on a Thursday evening is a challenge, especially near prayer time. There is so much traffic on the roads and it seems as though everybody feels that they have the right of way and that everybody else is going too slowly. With some roads already a total of twelve lanes wide, and full, it is hard to imagine what the city is going to do next to solve its traffic problems if the car owning population continues to grow. Enforcing traffic laws and educating drivers in road safety would be a start.

I've managed to get my Toshiba laptop fixed. Well, almost. When I got to the shop it was in a distressing state. The technician assured me that the pile of components scattered across his desk could indeed be reassembled into a perfect machine. Well, with the exception of the fact that it runs on Microshaft Windblows.

I managed to make it to Olive Garden just as the sun was setting and waited out prayer time with a superb Greek salad. I don't know where they buy their black olives and fetta cheese, but they are better than anything you can buy in the supermarkets here.