Leaning on Who?

So yesterday I got an email from my Mother. Said email is a forward from the managers of her property in Cumberland, as it turns out the house needs a new wood stove (fine), has cracks in the walls (uh oh), and has developed a lean to one side (wtf?). I want her to sell, sell like the wind! She says it is ordinary for homes of that age to settle into the ground a little. I say thats fine and dandy but if anything else happens she isn't going to be able to afford to pay to fix it. There are a lot of things I'm not good at, managing money is one of them, but I do think that her best option here is to sell the place. She has credit card debt and there is still money owed on this house. She could pay those off, and put some of the money into savings. She is worried about her future and I think that is reasonable. I just hope we make a good decision this time.

Cairo Day 1.5

Mom brought me home the day before yesterday around 1am. It was fun she has a cab driver she has made friends with called Crazy Magdi. He drove us to Mom's new apartment, all of her roomates are under 30, in fact they are all younger than me. Really nice people, and I met a whole bunch of the because she had a massive X-mas dinner with all of her friends from school planned for yesterday evening, it was a bit overwhelming because of my jetlag but it was also nice. I have access to the internet every day here at Mom's apartment so I will be able to upload pictures of my travels. We leave tonight for our cruise from Luxor to Aswan at 4am our time. This morning I was up around 3am wandering around, my inner clock has not adjusted it'self yet to Egyptian time. I had some nice quiet time with Mom this morning. I have been offered a job at the school which would start in January, they need someone to put together a production for the end of year. I am thinking about it, there are al kinds of reasons to say no, but I'm giving it due consideration, I don't want to dismiss the oppurtunity out of hand. I haven't discussed this with Allan yet. The position would last until the summer, and `i would earn $75 American a day and `I wouldn't have to pay for rent or food.

Windswept and Interesting

My Mother, the great explorer, looking all fabulous and exotic, with bamboo stuff in background. This past week she climbed mount Sinai.