Getting my sleep back on schedule isn’t that much of a problem. I tend to figure out how to get my sleeping pattern organized after a day or two. I went back into work on Thursday expecting a few bombs to land on my desk, but it turned out to be a little more then a few bombs. That is the one thing these days that are driving me nuts, a ton of problems to deal with and not getting any of them clearly solved. It is just a step by step process, but still when I went in Thursday I spent most of the day checking my emails and going through all the little things to make sure that I have covered everything or else I would have spent all Sunday doing that.

I did expect a few things to get done which they did, but still there was a lot to sort out. It was more of a day to do damage control rather then getting completely back to work. I wonder what would happen if I took an extended vacation. I have a lot of vacation time piled up and if I take a long time off I bet a lot of things would falter. What I’m trying to do over the next few months is to stream line the process of things, so that things won’t stop at my plate to move forward. This is going to take some time and work, but I’m going to need some solid time off at one point or another, just to clear my head completely of everything.

Well things have gotten interesting in Kuwait over the past week. Its no news that our government is in shambles and nothing is getting done, but they went ahead and gave up. When the government heads are dissolved then so will the parilaiment, so we might be voting this summer. Thanks to K I managed to get into voter registration at the last minute. Its going to be an interesting year since now the voting areas are grouped into 5 so we are all jumbled up. I wonder what the female turnout will be this year since its going to be very different setting.

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I’m taking a quick break with family to London. I haven’t been to London for a little while now, I have had this flight booked for over three weeks now and I didnt know that Thursday was going to be a day off. I’m leaving on Friday and it was too late to make any changes to the booking, my flight is confirmed so I don’t want to change anything. All the flights to everywhere on Thursday are all booked.

I’m going to test my new British Status, not sure exactly whats going to happen with it. Hopefully nothing will happen and it all goes smoothly, but knowing my luck I am bound to run into something. Its going to be cold and thats one thing I really enjoy in London, running around in the chilly weather. I’m looking forward to food, cinemas, motorcycles, and lots and lots of book stores.

I got a call telling me today that there is a package for from me from the mail. I had no clue what they were talking about, he asked me what to do with it and I said to keep it in the office so I could pick it up on the way back from my meetings. I had no clue what it was because I didn’t remember ordering anything at all.

I opened up this box right away to find the wedding invitations for my friend’s wedding which took place back in December. I took another look at the box and it turned out to be United States Parcel Service delivery (USPS), which is regular mail in the US. My friend sent the wedding invitations on December 20th 2007, and I didn’t get the box until March 17th 2008.

So this is the record, it takes about a total of 88 days to reach Kuwait through regular mail. If a person drove to the US and back it would have taken less time to do that in Lada. I honestly surprised it found its way to me, I told my friend I thought his wedding invitations were tacky and after all this time they found their way to me.

The last couple of weeks I have been coming back either 7:30 pm or 8:30 pm from work and it has been ongoing. Last night I got home by 9:15 pm and I don’t eat anything all day long. I can’t just stop for a snack because I get too hungry, and if I eat a full meal it slows me down so much that I want to fall asleep at work.

I was so exhausted today that I was falling asleep at the wheel, I new I had to get home and just some rest. I wanted to eat Dinner, or what was Lunch, as soon as I got through the doors. I didn’t feel like I got a chance to do anything, even when I was sitting in front of my desk I was dozing off and waking up after 10 to 20 minutes. I am going to need to recharge after some time, and at this time I’m reaching a limit, I just want to pass out but the problem there is a lot of work this week to finish. I keep missing phone calls and I’m barely able to keep up with all the work. A long hot shower does help unwind and some time off seems to be necessary.  I need to pass out as soon as possible, and I need to take a few days off work when I wrap up the last of my projects.

I usually buy my games from the Kuwaiti Center since I usually know they have good prices. I went through the list of games they had, and I picked up the ones I have been waiting to get for a while:

• Army of Two
• Naruto: Rise of the Ninja
• Devil May Cry 4
• Dynasty Warriors 6
• Ace Combat 6

I got all five games for 18 KD each which is a pretty good deal since all the stores gave me only 20 KD and a minimum of 19 KD.

This has been on the works for the past couple of months, but at this point I have to get it into gear. I wanted to thank Ananyah for helping get online and Jacqui for revamping it a few times. I am probably going to need their help again with this revamp.

I am facing issues with audio and video posts no matter what I do, then there are small issues with the side bar that I am trying to sort out. I know that my theme is just have issues with a few new features. So at this point I need a new theme, something fresh but similar, I putting a bunch of pictures together right now for the backgrounds, and I know I have been the bottle neck for all the changes.

The Changes:

• A Different yet Similar Theme
• New Images
• Updated WordPress
• New Plugins
• Cleaning up the Archives

I forgot ZDistrict’s Two year anniversary and passing the 1 million mark, hopefully things will keep chugging along.

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I have moved my media PC from my media shelf over to my desk are since I just installed Vista on it and I’m tweaked it for different use. I also managed to organize some anime DVDs around it. So I freed up some space on the media shelf, and I changed my stereo from the one that broke to the one I had in storage, and I cleaned up all the wires connected from behind but I still have a lot of reorganizing to do.

What I need to organize are my DVD, and CDs. I really want to Digatize all CDs so that I don’t have to look for them to listen to them and save area storing them. I just have to go through each CD on the PC and rip it with the right ID3 tags. Its an annoying process that I’m too lazy to go through right now.

I’m not even going to try to organize the wires under my desk, everytime I look at them I wonder what the hell I have contacted to them. One time I did contact what I had so I know that everything I have there is meant to be there, but I just can’t seem to find a way to connect them in an organized manner.

Some Steps:

• Organize media shelf
• Organize CDs after going through a few of them
• Move anime series that I have finished to storage
• Give away some magazines (I HATE DOING THAT, but I have to)
• A few more things as I go a long cleaning up
• I have a PS2 which doesn’t work
• I have some PS2 and X-Box 360 games which I want to get rid off, wish there was some place to trade it in
• Organize my books in some section

Even after all this organization I know that it is going to get a little messy in due time.

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Its just one of those days where you don’t seem to able to stop because you keep having one task after another to do, some are good and some are annoying.

Work was the usual run around and getting things done, but I still had to get a few things done. I was on my feet all day long to the point I only went home to shower and change then head back out.

Work from 8:30 to 4:00 pm, the usual stuff and getting things done.

Lunch at 4:30 pm at Johnny Rockets Marina with a couple of friends, and that was honestly fantastic, it felt so relaxing. There were so very few people there and we were enjoying the weather and the food. The strawberry milkshake did help a lot, by the time the meal was done I was too damn full to drive fast.

Headed home, cleaned up a bit, showered and headed out around 6:30 pm. Went to my grand parents since they just came back, it was nice passing by and seeing some family.

Then I had some work with a friend that I needed to do and we sat down working on that for a few hours. It took a lot out of us but we got a few things done which was good. Then home to relax before passing out. It was just one of those days where time was passing by, you always wonder what happened the whole day once it was done.

I recently had to replace my Debit/Check Card because it was bending in the wrong place due to non-usage. It took a few days to get the replacement, it was strange not having it when I needed it. So then I was all happy and dandy until I found out what happens when you do get a new card.

When I started using the online login, it reset everything from scratch. Its as if you never used an online account before, so what do you lose exactly:

Or another way to title it, Whats Wrong with NBK’s online account access:

• Your Online NBK account login gets reset
• You get a new check card number, not just a new check card even though you are just replacing an existing card and not a lost card, which they should just update the expiry date
• You lose the ability to transfer online, so you have to ask for E-Pin which takes three days and you have to pick it up from the branch that you opened up your account with to get access to online local and international transfers
• After entering the E-Pin you get access to the transfer capability but if you stored accounts there before then you have lost all the information about those accounts
• Overall the interface is very stiff and dated

I have always had an issue with their online interaction but I was really pissed off when I lost all the information that I have entered before.