Did a nice 2 hours worth of laps on the pool today. Gonna try some practice SCUBA dives in the pool tomorrow and if all goes well might be diving in the ocean soon.
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@freemo
Yeah I think I will contribute to your projects, can directly ask you about stuffs
@freemo One of the best.
FUCK! Betty White just died. This one is going to sting so bad!
I made 3 new kitty friends. The two pictured i got to feed. There was a third i met on my way out that i cant stop thinking about. He was really beat up, chunks of his ear missing, pat hy fur, but he was so sweet. Second he saw he me he started in on thr head rubs. I was late to my cab so couldnt stop off to get him food like i usually do....
Anyway now that i left him i cant stop thinking about him and how sweet he was and how hungry he probably is. Im thinking ill find some meat and go back tomorrow and see if i find him. If i do maybe i can bribe a local shop owner to feed him every day after i leave. I wish i could take him home with me but i know thats not an option :( Ill be thinking about him all night.
I just had half a roasted duck, hummus, tahini, two fresh juices, and om ali desert, im stuffed, super high quality food, and it cost all of $10 usd. Egypt is insane.
They are just out here parking camels in the parking lot like its perfectly normal.
Looks like i might be flying into Israel to do some consulting for a biotech company there after my stay on Egypt is over. They are trying to get me a b1 visa (a type of work visa for qualifying experts in a field). It will be fun to see how they conduct business over in Israel and tackle some hard problems again but honestly i cant wait to check out the super old architecture and religious sites.
> It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.
-- Terry Pratchett
How to convert any meal to egyptian:
1) instead of bread and butter replace with pitas and tahini
2) Replace all types of beans and chickpeas with fava beans
3) Use eggplant like a californian would use avocado, add it to everything
4) replace butter with oil
5) whenever you dont know what to do with a fruit or vegetable, pickle it.
6) meat
7) meat
I Tried several egyptian foods i havent had the chance to try yet. It was delicious but i have so many left overs.
The white dish is Rice Muammar, the brown looking rice is "Oriental Rice" which isnt very oriental by american standards, its rice with nuts and seasoning, the sausages are called Mombar and is lamb casing stuffed with meat and rice and spices, and finally the meat stuffed inside the pita is called Hawawshi and the bread is a bit crispy and amazing.
@freemo that is quite the gift. The "perpetual" is a valuable complication. Unfortunately these things can cost a lot to be serviced. Rolex is a damn cartel, and I don't say that lightly.
I'm not good at estimating watch values, but here I go anyway: $3-5k is your floor, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it valued well over $10k.
@freemo And the key to being unhappy, for logical completeness:
Sing like a dragon
Invest like an ogre
Eat like and Elf
Crack Skulls like Tom Bombadil
Fart like a hobbit
And dance like a Dwarf
(Note, not a real suggestion: you'll be tone-deaf, poor, hungry, passive, gassy, and clumsy 😂 )
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
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