I have never seen the Dubai airport this dead, I’m really amazed. There are very few announcements and very few people. Maybe I should come here on wednesdays more often… Went down to the duty free area as usual, just to see if anything tempted me. I volunteered to get some whisky for a friend on the way back, so I checked to see if they have that brand, they do. My friend wants some relatively cheap stuff, but they have all sorts of things available here. I don’t really know how the prices compare to back home, but Absolute vodka is about 13 bucks for a liter, and Glenfiddych (sp?) 30 year old scotch is about $180. None of that really tempted me, but they do sell lindt chocolates with various liquers and I think I’ll have to get some of the cognac filled ones… As usual, I stopped in to see, er smell the cologne selection. I wouldn’t say I am obsessed with “good” ones, but I do enjoy them. Got to try some things that I had heard of and intrigued me. A couple from Penhilingons, Love potion no. 9 and Blenhiem bouquet. LP #9 I would have dismissed out of hand because of the relation it has with that awful song. Luckily I don’t like how it smells either. Blenhiem bouquet really intrigued me, it goes on all citrus and pepper, but it dries down to a really stale thing that I don’t like. I tend to like the more “artisanal” fragrance houses and not like the mainstream ones too much. My favorite is an independent perfumer in the US named Dawn SPencer Hurowitz, she sells stuff under the DSH name. I like Villorsi, and some Creeds too. Imagine my surprise when I found out I like a cologne from Dunhill! It’s his original, just called Dunhill for men, and it is a classic scent, and very mainstream and wearable, unlike some of my more, umm, interesting scents:-) I’ll pick some up one of these days…<\/p>\n
I understand why people stretch out on the floors here, the lounge chairs are damn uncomfortable. If I were shorter they might be OK, but my legs keep falling asleep from the calves on down. As I was dozing off a few minutes ago, I thought to myself, “God, I stink, what’s up with that, I showered this morning…” Turns out it’s the guy behind me, he’s a little ripe. What else, oh yeah as I was dozing off I realized there was a continious sound. It sounded a little like a waterfall from a great distance but I couldn’t figure out what it was. Well, it’s the AC. It’s 97 degrees here with really high humidity, the AC just runs constantly. I had dinner at McDonalds. I’ve never been much of a fan of theirs. For fast food I’ve always preferred Wendy’s, but I’d never go as far as calling the food from either of those places as “good.” Well let me tell you, the quarter pounder was amazing. I almost went back and got another. This tells me the true level of crap I’ve been eating for the past 6 months. I am going to eat really well this next week or so… Only 9 more hours to go….<\/p>\n
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