Happy Birthday!

Another year, another 9/9 down and none the wiser (she is still sticking around!). My Aurora Borealis continues to sparkle and shine when I manage to send the right electrons across (I am getting better at this) and rest of the time continues to be my northern light. Life with wife is definitely better than life without wife. Conversation with a Pharmacist in Cairo Me - Coughing and with a spinning head I say - ' Excuse me' Pharmacist - 'Aiwa' Me - 'I think I have bad cold, I ate some strepsils but its not helping and now I have a headache. It could also be a fever' Pharmacist - Looks at me blankly Me - Can you give some Tylenol Flu or some sort of Flu medicine' Pharmacist - 'Can you speak English' Me - Was my fever that bad that I could not speak english anymore. Not wanting to look like a fool, I ask my colleague to translate my language into English. Ihab obliges. Pharmacist chuckles to my colleagues and says - 'Don't tell me he does not have an accent' Moral of the story- When a Mallu is sick in Pyramid land, get a translator.