Sandstorm, working out and goats

Only three things to report, they may not be that interesting, but its all i got.

I experienced my first kuwaiti sandstorm this weekend.  while a very mild one on the local scale, not being able to see beyond 100 yards due to sand is a storm to me. 

as i mentioned a few weeks ago, im working on loosing the small gut i grew when i first got here.  While pretty crappy, there is a bench press and some dumbbells downstairs and i've been taking advantage of them.   I haven't maxed out since high school, but im gonna boast a little and say i can still press 255 lbs, which i think is really close to my max back then.  i might have been able to lift 5 or 10 more pounds, but that didn't feel too safe considering i was lifting by myself at 3:30am.

I also saw some goats on the side of the road.  I have noticed one guy and about 20 goats a few times on the side of the road near the base, but considering we were really out of town and there was at least 30 yards between the road and fence of a sand field, i didn't seem to weird.  this time was really wierd because he wasnt on the side of the road.   i was driving under an overpass using the uturn lane, and saw the guy between the uturn lane and the raised freeway.  there was a 30 ft wide and maybe 70 ft long patch of sand and grass for the goats to enjoy.  This just caught my attention because it was in the city at 5pm, and those goats had to cross a road at some point.  i also talked to a guy one day who had a friend who hit a camel in Saudi Arabia.  not only did he have to pay a few thousand for the camel, but he had to pay thousands more to compensate for the camels that the hit camel would have made.  just thought that was crazy considering in Texas we just worry about how much its gonna cost to fix the truck.