Trivia for the day
Dec. 28th, 2009 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aadlerThe weather continues to be stunningly good. I know, talking about it — maybe even just allowing myself to consciously recognize it — is an invitation to five-pound snowflakes. I can’t help myself, though, it’s just so nice here.
It’s only three days until next year. 2010 … wasn’t that Arthur C. Clarke’s follow-up to 2001: A Space Odyssey? The future is now. I can still remember how odd it felt to start writing 1961 at the top of school papers, just when I’d got comfortable with 1960.
As part of the continuing effort to keep as many as possible of the military people here occupied in actual military pursuits, the guards for the facilities on-base are contractors. No, not the ‘infamous’ Blackwater (now with a different name); these, I believe, are Ugandan, polite black men in khaki uniforms that appear just slightly more comfortable than our own. There’s been some kind shift recently — wage negotiation, perhaps — and a different crew has come in. Same basic uniforms, same general appearance … but where the former carried the familiar M16 or M4, the new group has folding-stock AK47s. The last several years I’ve become so accustomed to keeping a sharp eye on anyone carrying an AK, it’s a bit distracting.
Still looking to do further work on the fanfic I mentioned. Maybe later today.
And that’s it for now.
It’s only three days until next year. 2010 … wasn’t that Arthur C. Clarke’s follow-up to 2001: A Space Odyssey? The future is now. I can still remember how odd it felt to start writing 1961 at the top of school papers, just when I’d got comfortable with 1960.
As part of the continuing effort to keep as many as possible of the military people here occupied in actual military pursuits, the guards for the facilities on-base are contractors. No, not the ‘infamous’ Blackwater (now with a different name); these, I believe, are Ugandan, polite black men in khaki uniforms that appear just slightly more comfortable than our own. There’s been some kind shift recently — wage negotiation, perhaps — and a different crew has come in. Same basic uniforms, same general appearance … but where the former carried the familiar M16 or M4, the new group has folding-stock AK47s. The last several years I’ve become so accustomed to keeping a sharp eye on anyone carrying an AK, it’s a bit distracting.
Still looking to do further work on the fanfic I mentioned. Maybe later today.
And that’s it for now.
