Last night i bought a scanner so i can start putting things up here. but then i went and watched the football and drank beer. it was all i could do to carry the briefcase shaped box home. this morning i noticed that i had splashed my trainers while unloading the beer against a wall after a bridge in maadi. the microbus driver was superbly foul mouthed with his horn as he somehow tore past the other vehicles on the wide open tarmac caressing the nile's banks.