Random Updates

There's not been a whole lot of interesting things happening around here, but its been a while since I've blogged, so I thought I'd put some updates on here of random things:

1.  Elections happened in Bahrain a couple weekends ago.  Unfortunately, we spent the weekend in Dubai and so I wasn't here to see everything.  But not a problem, there will be more elections.  So what were the results?  Well, the main opposition party - Wafaq - won all of the seats they contested (18 seats) which leaves them the largest bloc in the 40 seat parliament.   To be honest, I haven't worked out what the other parties are.

Interested in reading more about Bahrain's elections?  Here is a link to a search on Google News for stories on the election in Bahrain.

Another interesting fact:  non-Bahraini's can vote if they own land.  More specifically, they can vote in the municipal elections (equivalent of a mayor or city council).  It makes sense, since those are the positions that will make policies that affect them.

2.  How could there be an update without talking about Eva?  Answer:  there couldn't.  If you saw Eva this summer, you saw her scoot-scooting around.  She's gotten even better at crawling and is now pretty quick.  Quick enough to get into the things she knows she's not supposed to before we see her.  We've removed anything that she can hurt herself with, but she can still get to bookshelves and dvds and the TV.  Its apparent that she knows what "no, eva" means.  Its even more apparent that she is quite capable of disobeying mom and dad.  So we are all learning - Alison and I are learning about disciplining a child in love, and Eva is learning to obey mommy and daddy.  Albeit slower than we would prefer.

And yes, that's right.  I talked about Eva without actually showing a picture of her.

3.  Education.  I don't know if I've ever said this on here, but Alison is going to finish her Masters in Education starting in January!  She has already figured out her schedule for the next year and a half, and she will soon be steeped in articles and books and writing papers.  The good news about all this is that I get to participate in the festivities.  Whatever articles she gets, I will also get to read.  Its hard to say who's more excited about all this - her or me.  This means we are officially nerds.

That's all for now.  In the future, look forward to some posts on Eid, Thanksgiving and possibly a slew of book reviews.