The Continuing Saga . . .
Back to the saga of no internet in Sri Lanka. They finally found the other end of the cable last…
Later . . .
They found the cable, and it’s been brought up onto the deck of the ship where repairs will be made….
No internet
The update on the whole undersea cable thing and no Internet in Sri Lanka is pretty interesting. I’ll be working…
Has it been fixed yet? Has it? Huh? Huh?
And today, in the news, it was announced that repairs finally began Tuesday evening, but they could not find one…
More later . . .
It just gets better and better. Oh seriously. Wait until you read this. Unless this is breaking news in the…
Undersea Telephone Cable Repairs Set to Begin Today
Oh yeah. We’re only on day 4. Why hurry? I mean, why stress over rushing these things? They – and…
that pesky undersea cable problem
It was on the news – finally – but not in much detail. They (who is "they"? No idea.) claimed…
Sri Lanka. The only country in the world NOT on the internet.
On Sunday, SLTNet, the country’s largest ISP, sent out an email to all their customers saying, simply, this: Dear…
Internet is Down
For Fahim and I? Oh, no. That would be just too simple. No, no, no. Internet is down here. Here?…
Writing Incentives
Fahim is great about supporting my writing. He’s great at negotiating incentives for me. This week, I have to edit…
Anniversary Year One
We made it! Neither of us has killed the other, or seriously maimed, or brutalized, or beaten up, or threatened,…
Dehiwela Zoo and McDonalds
I don’t mention them because McDonalds is located at the Dehiwela Zoo, or because the Zoo is sponsored by them….
McDonalds. In Borella.
It really is pretty much the same no matter where. The one major difference is that here, you can get…
Dehiwela Zoo. Officially called “The National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka”
One thing I find interesting here is how they have one price for foreigners and another for locals. Okay, so…
School holidays?
The part of the world I’m in has alternating school holidays, or so I’m told. Basically, some schools take August…
Knox’s Words is launched at the British Council
And Fahim and I got to go. We received official invitations in the mail and everything. At first, Fahim wasn’t…
BIW is over for this month
I’ve talked about BIW before. Writing challenge to write as many pages as you can in a week. It ends…
Monsoon Seasons End Eventually. Right?
I say this only because it seems like we’re still in monsoon season, and, well, I’ve been here nearly a…
Yep, definitely monsoon
It rained all night last night. I would know. I was awake. ") Okay, I wasn’t awake the entire night,…
Anniversaries and Presents and Thundersticks, Oh My!
We’re on the countdown here, folks. In 11 days, I’ll have been in Sri Lanka for one year. In 11…
Monsoon Weather. Still.
It’s been raining for the last hour, and the sky’s so dark that I had to turn the lights on…
Produce and Other Ramblings…
Produce here is iffy. As in, it’s iffy if next week, we’ll be able to get decent mushrooms, or decent…
Fahim is getting old.
Today was dh’s birthdayl. Morning was taken up with me trying to make Chicken Buryani, one of our favorite dishes,…
Welcome to my freak show!
I live in Sri Lanka, which is off the south east coast of India. The locals here are as brown…
So, I’m Exotic?
The majority of the culture shock is over, although I still get annoyed at being stared at – ALL THE…