Negumbo again
I went to Negumbo again today. I was hoping to have a family history consultant to train, but no such…
homemaking – compassionate service project
We, along with Colombo 2nd Branch, put together 300 newborn kits for destitute mothers at the DeSoysa Hospital. In each…
Abandoned Property Next Door Gets Facelift
Two men, labourers, showed up next door this morning, about 9 am, and started hacking away at the vegetation. It…
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…
Yes, we have no bananas . . .
Remember the Banana Tree? It collapsed. The image on the left was taken on 28 April. Image on the right…
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…
Fahim Showers
Yes, it may shock you that I’m willing to post a picture of dearest taking a shower. Even though there…
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. I have friends…
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 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 metal. They took…
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…
More on Vesak Poya Day
I mentioned in previous entries (May 2nd and May 4th) that Vesak Poya Day was a big deal. I even…