Negumbo again
I went to Negumbo again today. I was hoping to have a family history consultant to train, but no such…
Other
Desiccated Coconut Found
I’ve mentioned before that the grocery stores here don’t use barcode scanners (although Arpico seems to be changing that –…
Kurrakan, Dude
I talked about kurrakan a while ago after we bought a box of chocolate flavored kurrakan breakfast cereal, and I…
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 tune the ice…
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 were basically ginger…
Duel Comets in the Night Sky
Now read it again if you didn’t notice it the first time. Have you noticed it yet? If not, read…
Transportation habits in Sri Lanka
This is something else I haven’t mentioned much, if at all, in here. I’ve mentioned the driving habits, ie lack…
And other things, too.
A user error this morning caused me to wrench my thumb. Painfully. It seems that a certain person was opening…
On to other things.
We had a power outage this morning, lasting for oh, two hours or so, and then a water outage this…
Three weeks of constant rain predicted
On the local news. Of course, that’s when we see our first ray of sunshine. And continue seeing it for…
Islamic Banking
It was announced on the news today – CNN or Channel News Asia – that Islamic Banking is on the…
Finally. Internet.
I finally got on the internet again today. First time, oh, pardon me – second time in over two months….
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? Huhn?
Chocolate Bran Cake
Remember the cake I made a couple of days ago with bran instead of oats, and rice flour instead of…
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 and himem.sys, Fahim…
Editor’s Note:
We are sorry to report the demise of a certain writer caused by the sudden meeting of a Toshiba notebook…
Fahin decided to install DOS
on his computer today. Rather than just the crap dos bitty program thing that comes with Windows XP, he wants…
Vesak Poya Day
I learned something today. The whole reason Vesak Poya Day is the big deal in terms of Poya Days is…
On another note – completely unrelated
This week is BIW. Book in a Week. Which means I’ll be working on at least one of my novels.
Monsoon Season is Seriously Here
I’m experiencing what Fahim talked about. We think it may have been raining all night, but as we were sleeping,…
The cake, boss. The cake.
I told Fahim that he wasn’t allowed cake before breakfast, so what does he do? You guess it. He had…
Laundry hung up to dry outside doesn’t get dry very quickly during monsoon weather.
That makes sense, right? Right. Well, it’s not like I hang up the laundry under the open sky. We have…
Today was REALLY monsoon weather. And yesterday, too.
Yesterday, it rained three times, the shortest rainfall lasting for 45 minutes. The last one lasted for at least an…
Prophet Mohamed’s Birthday
Mohamed being the guy who started the whole Muslim religion. I say this to Fahim, to confirm that I know,…