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Yet another challengeThroughout the past few years I've set myself up to a few challenges, sensible or not. These challenges, almost all related to exercise, were of varied degrees, realistic goals or even with a fair timeframe. There was the I'm going to start biking to work, no matter the weather - a challenge that worked out pretty good and lasted much longer than I expected. Three months

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Guitar heroGet a guitar, win the girl.

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Great pictures from Hajj 2009A greatset of photos over at Boston.com's Big Picture of the recently finished hajj 2009, the very same one we worked on for Air Atlanta. Sitting in the office here in Jeddah, shuffling around pilot and cabin crew schedules you are quite distant from this religious pilgrimage even though it is practically in our backyard. Mekkah is only a couple of hours drive away

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Highly recommendedMuse - The Resistance. An amazing album. Energetic to the point where I want to scream. Epic songs in between masterpieces. A definite Queen influence if there ever was one.

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Lovin' this Zune thingThis is what you get by mirroring the backwards spelling of Zune :)

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Rectangle in the blackI could easily see myself living in a house like that, situated in the solitude of Icelandic lava off in the outskirts of Hafnarfjörður for example. I can't even imagine that it would be expensive to build although tricking it out inside would be. via Arkinetia

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Heading back from the land of beefAfter nearly two weeks of blizz in the American South I'm in Frankfurt overnighting before my flight back to to Jeddah. Had a great time in Argentina and managed to do quite a bit. More on that later but for now I'll have to hit the gym like never before and drink water and eat cucumber only to get rid of all this beef that is hiding my immensely muscular

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Vacation, finally!Well, finally after eight weeks on duty we are off to vacation. Next stop, Argentina. See'ya there.- Posted from my iPhone

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Ran across the website for Mr. Alisdair Miller. He has a ton of photos, most from Dubai it seems, and the are rather good I must say. And it is interesting to see photos from this fading empire. I'm sure it must be a very interesting place these days to take pics in. Although I find the desert photos most interesting (one would think sand would be the last thing on my mind here) it is worth

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Apple Store, Carrousel du LouvreSimply stunning looking this store. And the location is legendary. Check out some more photos.

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Roller coaster rideWhat a ride this year has been. A definite roller coaster ride. In so many ways similar to that experience as you feel sick at some points and also crazy happy at others. Scared, excited, worried, ecstatic, confused... you name it. But, as with any roller coaster ride, minutes after getting off.. you are ready for another ride.I don't really know where to start. I started the

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Fighting the brave battleWe've been pestered lately on the compound by an insane amount of flies. Specifically the harmless housefly and unfortunately, mosquitos. I am one of the lucky few that the mosquitos not only love, but look at as a feast. They come to me as if I was the last source of blood on earth, and leave me with beautiful bumps that scream for some scratchy scratchy. This has made

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Back in Jeddah, againWell, we are back after possibly the greatest vacation ever. I'll leave it until later to write about it (I'm on night shifts for these first four days back) but for now you can enjoy a preview photo from the trip. I have roughly 950 photos to go through. I went a bit bananas with this new camera of ours but completely forgot that I don't have an assistant to do the editing

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Kuala LumpurWe have just arrived in Kuala Lumpur after a very hectic last week at work. We left Jeddah immediately after my last nightshift so I was very happy to find out that the aircraft we came here on had crew rest areas with beds. I snored throughout almost the entire flight. Getting out of Saudi Arabia was much needed. We have little plans for the days here but I am sure there is plenty to

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Can't effin' wait!These guys are just as good as in the beginning. Amazing band. And I'll be there, listening to them in exactly 2 weeks from now.

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Down underFinally. Yes, finally. In 12 days we are going on vacation after an eight week outing. And to get away from it all, we decided to go faaar. Australia is our destination. We will be leaving Jeddah on 20th of November on a direct 9 hour flight to Kuala Lumpur. There we plan to stay one night and leave onwards to Sydney on the 23rd. Once we arrive in Sydney we hang out at the airport for a

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Very addictive gameLink: http://www.silvergames.com/game/fig-8/

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Long Way RoundI acquired Long Way Round the other day and just finished watching all 10 episodes. A great series that is. I've always been fascinated by long and demanding journeys that people take on. In this mates Ewan and Charlie decide to ride into the sunset heading east, going around the whole world in 3 months. Starting out in London and ending in New York some 115 days later they crossed

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A nice day out on the townA few days back I made an order with Snusbutiken for some stock to have here during these long shift hours we have in Jeddah. Yesterday the stuff finally arrived and impatient as we are, me and Ketill decided to drive down to the UPS offices on Sari street to pick up the box of gold. Now, most of the time when you make the almost one hour trip to Jeddah city, you tend to

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BluesThey call it winter blues, or winter depression. A mood disorder otherwise known as seasonal affective disorder - or, more brilliantly, SAD. I'll leave it up to you, beloved reader, to read more about it on various websites but if anyone is looking for a cure, there are special light therapy lamps that help battle the accompanying mood troubles. ...And so it was, a couple of weeks ago, I

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PragueLong overdue, I know, but finally I uploaded an album from our trip to Prague. Click here to see. I had written some stuff on the trip somewhere but can't find it now. I'll have to write it up again and post it. Until then, the pictures will have to tell the story.

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Parking garagePossibly the coolest parking garage in the world. Kansas City library.

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Tempting indeedIt may look like heaven between two slices of carbs but I'm pretty sure eating that thing would be the last thing you do. 107 grams, 1420 calories and 920 more if you add a drink and fries. Yup, you read it right. That is Hardee's Monster Thickburger. One can imagine shaving weeks instead of days off one's life with each bite. Ridiculous. ... but all that bacon sure is tempting!

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Let's describe the whole world!I'd say this is a pretty cool idea. The idea is describe any area you can find on Google Maps, mark the boundaries and write something about it. So far, pretty useful for me here in Jeddah when looking for a specific place. Thing is, here in Jeddah you might be looking for Palestine street but locals refer to it as Falesteen street, making it all that much harder to

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Ah, where to goFrom Jeddah we have several options when it comes to escaping working life during days off. Aside from being able to jump on the airline's aircrafts we can also buy cheap tickets on Saudi Arabian Airlines. I went over the possible locations based on their summer flying schedule. I'm sure there are more, but as per that schedule the destinations are as follows:Bangladesh- DhakaChina

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