• Just this morning I came back from Johannesburg, and now I'm on annual leave! I'll be spending it in Perth, nowhere different or exciting, but I have only seen my family once since my last leave so I think it's about time I make an appearance. Plus I have stupid errands to run like dental check ups, and bank stuff, and there's only so much I can do from here in Dubai.

• At the moment here in the sandpit it's Ramadan, so no eating, drinking, smoking (not that I do) and basically no impure activity during daylight hours. Every day off I have in Dubai, I hang around at home waiting until around 6pm, then head to mOre in time for Iftar. Every time I'm there with my laptop I usually make good progress with the blog and churn out a few posts, which is why the month of August has a couple more posts than the regular post-per-month rate. Hopefully this trend will continue :-)

• The last couple of months have been insanely busy for me, and I've been consistently working 90-100 hours a month. It's so different now compared to when I first started flying - calling scheduling to give me flights to alleviate my boredom! Next month I'm barely doing 50 hrs, I have 10 days off and I cannot be more relieved! I'll hardly be resting though, I have both my Dad and one of my best friends from Perth paying me a visit.

• I'm also messing with the idea of doing Videocasts (a.k.a. Vodcasts) in the near future, kind of along the same lines as the "My Perfect Day" post a week ago. At the moment it feels like a massive mountain to climb, especially since I've never really operated a video camera before, so for the time being I'm messing with my LX3 and seeing how things work, and hopefully over time this will come into fruition.

Labels: Holidays, Homesick, Random Thoughts