Joe al-Dumesnil or Joe al-Denveri

So I have been very irregular rececntly, the past week, with my blogs. I will try to improve on that. Now get your head out of the toilet and keep reading.

Like you and a couple of hundred million other western's we have asked ourselves "what's up with the whole Al thing in the middle east"; and as if answered by Allah himself a concisely written article presented itself. See the link: http://www.slate.com/id/2144707/?GT1=8391.

One thing I have noticed is since you say so many "al"s throughout the course of the day it starts to really roll off the tongue without effort, becomes rather subtle.

Now for a lesson in expatriot Indians in the Middle East. Mumbai (or Bombay as it was called) is a happening city with a lot of capitalism and opportunistic folks, plenty of money, yada. However, not the same for the southern State of Kerala on the western southern coast. There are entire villages of Indians from this state over here. They tend to be more communal than their capitalistic brothers to the north. There just aren't enough jobs for these folks back home and rather than go to Mumbai or Delhi with the rest of the nation, many opt for the Middle East option with their buddies. Not kidding you, I asked our HR Manager here when he might go back to India and here said he wasn't sure he wanted to, because his family and village were all here in KSA.

Well that the update for tonight. Doing well and just kicking it over in Saudi. It hasn't been that hot recently, or at least as hot as it has been, still very dry. My eyes feel like they are in Denver.

Ciao and thanks for reading.