Thursday Morning at the HNC Offices

First day of the weekend here, and I'm at the HNC offices doing final preparations for the seminars that start Saturday.

Yesterday I ate my first Saudi Arabian Mexican Food - Fajitas. No chips come with Mexican food here - but was pretty much Tex-Mex other than that. No beer or margaritas either.

Saudi won a soccer game last night and qualified for the World Cub matches next year, so the streets were full of people celebrating until very late. It was all over the headlines today.

I went to a shopping mall across the street from the hotel - the whole mall is nothing but colorful, formal, fancy clothing for women - over 100 shops right next to each other. Lots of women shopping, all dressed in their traditional black robes. I still wonder who wears the stuff in the shops, and when? All the shop workers were men.

I'll stay here at the offices for a while, then will spend some more time today and tomorrow working on a proposal for Saudi Telecom Company. They want help with a voluntary Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort. I think that could provide periodic Saudi trips for the next year. SOX are everywhere - a true accountants' full employment act.

I may also go to the gym and pool - and see if the 100+ degree weather makes the pool water warm enough for me to get into!