Spaceship mosques and Surly Satelite Guys

We have a mosque shaped like the coolest spaceship near us. Its all tiled, huge and looks like its going to take off at any minute. Its near the local "Farm" supermarket in Rahima which incidentally is shiny, neat and crawling with expats - full of western brand food and crappy vegetables. If you go to the "Panda" supermarket down the road its messy, the floor is dirty and the shop people and extraordinarily cranky and rip you off if you don't count your change. )(Oh and the atm is notorious for taking your card and your money.) However the quality of the food is awesome and about half the price. Also the word "Panda" is unpronouncable in Arabic which has no pronuncuation of 'p' so I shop at the local "Banda".

We now have a satelite dish...make that two! One for the dodgy sat tv network that tell us via CNN that Crispy Cremes are going to be cutting trans fats soon. (AHHHHHH SMITE ME NOW) and the other is the internet satelite. Now the delivery guys...hmmm...can we say they introduced me to my first true taste of mysogyny. Except they we'ren't Saudi they were Bangladeshi. They were in my house for three hours and ignored me the entire time. Openly talked about me in front of me, went through my fridge and almost got kicked out of our house if they weren't the only people who install these things.

So very very soon we should be able to call people via skype for next to nothing.

A whole lot has happened the last few days but I'm almost comatose tired and can't remember them (Oh for a good bed!). So I'll write them all out in the next few days hopefully. Remind me to talk about Texans and swearing, the apparent fear of Dammam, people vacating houses and scavanging, Halloween prep, my curtains and stealth Christmas oh and accidents, ohhhh the driving here.