I spent more than 3 years working in Ukraine and left in July 2012 to take a job at a former company in Perth Western Australia.  Was working as a consultant (mining industry) and was mde an offer to (return) work in Mongolia.  So, in July 2012, I relocated back to Ulaanbaatar for an undefined period - could be years and years.   Another multi- ( Read more... )

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December 31, 2010.       Jeep driver hits me while I'm riding my BMW
After Christmas in the Keys with my Daughter,
I took the F-250 Super Duty and trailered the BMW K1200GT to Houston to spend New Year's  with an expat friend.
New Yaer's Eve:  At 3:30 pm , I was life flighted to Memorial Hermann Hospital.  Someone driving a Jeep Wrangler had made
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Paramotoring pic's from last weekend

Flying as the sun sets in Ukraine.
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Paramotoring pic's from Nov 2009

Dnepro River, Kremenchug Ukraine.

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This winter in Ukraine was really bad.
Local's likened it to the winters from the '70's
and stated that they had gotten soft and forgot
what a "typical" winter was like.

We 'sprung' our clocks forward last night.
Direct sunlight from 06:37 to 19:09 now.

I'm going to fly my paramotor over the Dnepro River now.............Later

last post- 38 weeks - geezus I suck.

and it's been major adventure crapola stuff too !

will try to get busy and update.

from Ukraine, via Adelaide, Perth, SC, St.Croix, SC, then way back
when I was a regular poster in KZ.

I need to get a memory stick reader for pics.

stuff coming, hopefully interesting, soon.
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The company furnished apartment is a large 15 story building with a very nice Japanese and a very nice Korean restuarant on the 1st floor, 3 floor of parking garages in the basement and privately owned apartments from floors 2 and above ( Read more... )

wow. not a very good lj-er ( Read more... )

Friday, the E/P/CM (engineer/procure/constr. manage) invited about 10 people (40 showed) up to crab legs and karaoke at h2o http://www.hibiscusbeachresort.com/H20/index.htm/Read more... )

How do you enter a subject after being off network for soooooo long ?

Which subject ...

1. leaving KZ and the disappointments of not being able to accomplish all the goals due to f^cked up Soviet doctrinations...

2. My new hp 17" laptop that rocks ( Read more... )