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On the road again . . .

When we were done, we hopped in the van with Marlene and her offspring. As soon as…

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Setting Apart

Now to explain what this is. We’re given callings here (I talk briefly about callings in general…

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DVD Shopping

Marlene’s daughters from the US are here for Christmas. Did I mention that last Sunday? No, I…

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More on Hindi movies. . .

I’ve taken to watching them. Without the English subtitles. And still enjoying them. Not completely and totally,…

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Internet connection problems caused by . . . a gremlin in my machine?

While we were on the internet, I tried publishing websites through FrontPage. Sometimes the publishing worked, sometimes…

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And I have to give credit to. . .

Fahim. For the name of my blog. A Canadian in King Parakramabahu’s Court. I can’t take credit…

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Sri Lankan Movies

Sri Lanka’s first television stations came into existence sometime in 1978 or 1979. I think the obvious…

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Today was pretty much a do almost nothing day.

Except I did wash the sheets and some other laundry. In the afternoon. Because we were busy…

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Later in the day. . .

I worked on more website design, but not for this website. For others. While working on them,…

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Chatting

When Fahim and I were on the internet today, this morning in our time zone, brother Tony…

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Long Distance

I called my grandma on my cell phone. The one with the phone card. I started out…

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More 24

No, you’re not hallucinating. 🙂 But this is a different 24. Now I’m referring to the date,…

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More 24

And then later, at home, we watched more episodes of 24 with Kiefer Sutherland aka Jack Bauer….

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Christmas Dinner

I had suggested to Fahim about a week or so ago that I wanted to do something…

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The Monk Situation

And not Monk as in Tony Shalhoub the television series. I think there are far too many…

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Fahim and I will be staying home today. Buddhist Monk’s Cremation. Possible rioting.

Colombo is under heavy guard with thousands of troops maintaining peace. People went around yesterday forcing people…

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Buddhist Monk dies. Riots ensue.

Yes, it’s a clear exaggeration of the situation. Maybe. Or maybe not. A Buddhist monk did die,…

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Oh, and there was a cow.

Seriously. But I didn’t have my camera with me. I’ve taken to calling the camera "my" camera,…

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The rest of my day . . .

On the other hand, was rather uneventful. A load of laundry. Cooking, as per usual. Some other…

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How many dead lizards have you met?

GROSSNESS WARNING!!!! Me? Just one. And that’s only assuming that geckos aren’t lizards. If they are, then…

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Websites and more Websites

I’ve been working on my http://srilanka.laurieashton.com website lately, which you can find here. Heh heh heh heh….

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The View Out Our Front Door

And this is, oh, mildly interesting. Gee, looks like a new version of a snake light. Like?…

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More Monk and Fahim insists that I put in a spoiler warning . . . so consider this as your spoiler warning. “Spoiler Warning”

We watched the last of the Monk episodes from season one today. We want more. We want…

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Odd things happen at church sometimes

Several odd things happened today at church. I’ll tell them in chronological order – just this once!…

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I Love Fahim, That Little Freak . . .

I tried taking some pictures of him this morning. Well, no, not correct. I did take some…