Author: LMAshton
Abandoned Property Next Door Gets Facelift
Two men, labourers, showed up next door this morning, about 9 am, and started hacking away at…
Desiccated Coconut Found
I’ve mentioned before that the grocery stores here don’t use barcode scanners (although Arpico seems to be…
Kurrakan, Dude
I talked about kurrakan a while ago after we bought a box of chocolate flavored kurrakan breakfast…
musical trishaws not just for ice cream
I told you about the Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer tuning ice cream trishaws. Meaning, that’s the…
Yes, we have no bananas . . .
Remember the Banana Tree? It collapsed. The image on the left was taken on 28 April. Image…
Fahim buys more sweets. Or snacks. Or something.
Fahim bought some groceries today. And among what he bought were these two bags. The Ginger Fingers…
Fahim Showers
Yes, it may shock you that I’m willing to post a picture of dearest taking a shower….
Fahim has a strange sense of style
But I don’t care. He’s an adult. He’s responsible for himself. He can do whatever he wants….
Duel Comets in the Night Sky
Now read it again if you didn’t notice it the first time. Have you noticed it yet?…
Transportation habits in Sri Lanka
This is something else I haven’t mentioned much, if at all, in here. I’ve mentioned the driving…
And yet ANOTHER example of the types of vehicles that shouldn’t be driving down our road. . .
You’d think they’d learn. Eventually. Evidently, they have not. It’s a truck carrying a load of scrap…
And other things, too.
A user error this morning caused me to wrench my thumb. Painfully. It seems that a certain…
On to other things.
We had a power outage this morning, lasting for oh, two hours or so, and then a…
Three weeks of constant rain predicted
On the local news. Of course, that’s when we see our first ray of sunshine. And continue…
Islamic Banking
It was announced on the news today – CNN or Channel News Asia – that Islamic Banking…
Finally. Internet.
I finally got on the internet again today. First time, oh, pardon me – second time in…
And here we have another fruit tree. Again, in someone’s yard.
Mango. Yum. Why can’t I have fruit trees in my yard? Huhn? Huhn? Fahim, honey? Why not?…
Chocolate Bran Cake
Remember the cake I made a couple of days ago with bran instead of oats, and rice…
Fahim’s DOS thingy is actually working.
A couple of hours playing with this that and the other thing, more commonly called config.sys, emm386.whatever…
Editor’s Note:
We are sorry to report the demise of a certain writer caused by the sudden meeting of…
Fahin decided to install DOS
on his computer today. Rather than just the crap dos bitty program thing that comes with Windows…
More on Vesak Poya Day
I mentioned in previous entries (May 2nd and May 4th) that Vesak Poya Day was a big…
Vesak Poya Day
I learned something today. The whole reason Vesak Poya Day is the big deal in terms of…
On another note – completely unrelated
This week is BIW. Book in a Week. Which means I’ll be working on at least one…