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<0> Re_Boot, how the hell are you dude?
<1> on his behalf he's doing well and is as gooberish as ever
<0> heh, aren't we all :)
<0> How you doing kickstand? LTNS.
<1> can't complain
<0> You could, we wouldn't listen :)
<1> you've been overseas i guess?
<0> Yeah, I'm in Bahrain probably until I retire.
<0> 2 years or so.
<1> different lifestyle there eh?
<0> Actually, it isn't bad.
<0> If you have to live in the Middle East, Bahrain is pretty much the place to be.
<1> cool
<0> I have 7 starbucks within 10 miles and a very lovely Thai lady living with me. :)
<1> plenty of hot women?
<0> There's a few.
<0> Mostly imported hookers, but Gulf Air has a lot of nice flight attendants etc.
<1> heh
<1> i've always wanted to be in the mile high club
<0> heh, it's possible.
<0> I've had to do away with my diet, eat mostly rice now, but my Thai takes very good care of me.
<0> She's a good girl.
<1> i was going to ask what the food selection was like
<0> You can get just about anything you like here, but the beef generally ****s.
<1> hrm
<0> The hotels usually snag up the good stuff.
<0> There's a lot of Indian, Thai, Persian and other restaurants here.
<0> Then about a million Shawarma stands.
<1> hot dog stands?
<0> Nope
<0> Shawarma are kind of like the local food, so they're the hot dog replacements.
<0> But they're good
<1> intrseting
<0> Life is interesting here. Not your typical Muslim society.
<0> I guess it is like the Southern California of the region. Very laid back.
<0> If you can handle the heat that is.
<1> i'd imagine it's slightly less polluted also
<0> Slightly
<0> You are very near oil producing nations, let's not forget. And there is no EPA here.
<0> Lets not forget that there's always dust and sand in the air too.
<1> true
<1> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:D%C3%B6ner_kebab_slicing.jpg
<1> looks like a meat tornado being attacked by a man with a large knife
<0> That's kind of what it looks like, yeah
<0> Slice it down, mix it with some spice and some cabbage, put it on a tortilla like bread and you have a shawarma.
<1> sounds pretty good
<0> It really is.
<0> My diet is almost 100% authentic Thai so I don't eat them often. But they are good.
<0> Even on base I tend to eat rice anymore. Fast food is just becomming a stomach turner to me anymore.
<1> how advanced is the internet around there?
<1> 56k.. cable..
<0> I don't think I've ever eaten so good in my life in fact :). The net ****s, but is getting better. My DSL just got bumped to 1024K down, 128K up.
<0> Most apartments offer net access with the apartment, but they all share a single line.
<0> I'm in a villa so I don't share ****.
<1> nice
<0> The max I've seen is 5M down, 512K up.
<0> But I haven't looked into commercial alternatives.
<0> The costs are about $100/mo for my line, but my landlord pays it.
<1> high cost vs bandwidth but if it's free hooray
<0> My rent is about $2400/month
<0> he can afford it.
<0> I have to go outside for a minute. we have a cold spell going on here, I have to check it out.
<0> We've been in the 100's for the last 3 months for highs and upper 80s for lows. But we're oddly down to 74 degrees, have to see this.
<1> cool
<0> Just what I thought. Somebody's thermometer is broken.
<0> Damnit.
<1> lol
<0> I haven't seen it that cool since I got here in February.
<1> don't feel alone, it's been smoking hot here too
<0> Cali?
<1> ky
<0> I've heard about the heat wave in Cali. But that's it.
<0> We get the heat and southern humidity too. 50% plus. ****s.
<1> i suppose the humidity here is worse than anything
<0> Highest heat index I've seen here this year is 128 F.
<1> 50% is a good day here
<0> 105-115 seems pretty much normal here.
<0> Yeah, 50% would have been a good day in Mississippi too when I was there.
<0> Well, I should either get back to my studies or back to my Thai. Sweet thing brought me dinner a few minutes ago. What a sweetheart she is.
<0> She keeps this up and I probably won't go back to the states.
<1> ok take it easy
<0> heh, no, I'm pretty serious.
<1> lol
<0> Not much for me to go back to. Wife wants a divorce, kids are all but grown. Navy won't be a factor in 2 years, except for the check they give me every month.
<0> I have some of the local companies interested in me, there's no income tax here.
<0> Microsoft has been wooing me
<0> There's opportunity here up to the $200K/yr range.
<0> My girl has a bungalow and some property in Thailand. Why not just stay here?
<1> sounds like you've got it made there
<0> That's why I'm kicking around the idea.
<1> heh
<0> heh, you said it booter
<2> :P
<0> in 2 years I can even do that again.
<2> umm, been there done that got the t shirt lol
<2> funny the things youth will do to you....
<0> I had to get rid of the tshirt for security clearance reasons :)
<2> figures
<2> for 200k I could dump it
<0> Yeah, I will if I end up doing that.
<0> Not like I've missed it much in the last 17 years.
<2> well, in 10yrs you can have everything paid for AND a cool mil in the bank
<0> Yeah and have bought a dozen houses in Thailand
<2> you like tialand?
<0> 22K for homes there
<0> I love Thai women. :)
<2> ofcource, but, theres nothing like america anywhere
<0> I'll let you know about Thailand in November.
<0> I'm going home to meet Mom in October/November.
<0> We're going to tour as much of the country as we can.
<2> nice
<0> Yepper.
<0> Bankok, Pattaya Beach, the mountains in the north, and home along the souther coast.
<0> southern even
<0> I'd live about 5Km away from the beach
<0> In a rural farming community
<0> growing mangosteen
<2> never been there, though I knew alot of guys who came back from there after nam
<2> theyd muggle sticks back in the guns lol ;)
<2> smuggle even
<0> heh
<2> crazy lot back then
<0> We still are on occasion
<2> no one ever wants to look down a barrel...
<0> ****, the spec forces that marched all over Afghanistan reopened the heroin line back to the states after the taliban were overthrown.
<2> I believe that
<0> Seen a lot of prosecutions happen over that ****.
<2> why support them, allow them to peddle thier wares and subsidize themselves
<0> Whatever it takes.
<0> If they can become stronger and make some money, let em.
<2> besides, iirc it is afghanistans major crop isnt it
<0> Not our place to dictate how countries live.
<2> very true
<2> stick to our policys, let them have thiers
<0> Yep, that's the whole idea.
<2> besides,thats how you piss whole countrys off when you dictate how policy is going to be.
<0> There's a term here in Bahrain, Enshala. As God wills. That's the whole laid back attitued.
<0> Don't worry about what other people are doing, just live as you will.
<3> lol
<3> as long as it's NIMBY, it's fine?
<3> Maybe back in the day when all you had to do was get further away than a cannonball...
<0> Even if it is NIMBY. Worry about what's in your yard, not mine.
<3> but we can blow up the earth....and so can others...and I can't get off.
<0> Anyway.
<0> Without getting too deep into the political mindsets. Life isn't bad here.
<2> I sitll cant wait till the day we can tell OPAC to take all that sand and all the oil and shove it up thier ARSE!
<0> The day is coming.
<3> Re_Boot, and what happens to them then? All those countries, so dependant on oil, nothing else going on....
<0> Bahrain is already out of oil and pumping only Natural Gas. Others will follow.
<0> The US will be the last oil producing nation on earth.
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