My day

It is cooling down here in weather terms, which means high 30'c which for us is cool and means we switch from AC to fans. The power lines have been disrupted by the insurgency as they constantly bombard the sources of electricity, the phone lines have been terrible too so it has been hard to keep up good communications. I climbed on the roof to check the internet antenna. There was a suicide bomber in the city. I had a visitor arrive from the capital and he watched it explode. He said he watched a vehicle weave into the military convoy ahead of them and then detonate. He said there was a delay between watching the light and smoke of the explosion and then hearing it. I went to the Communications office to ask some questions and was treated very well. As I was leaving the Manager said "You might wonder why we are treating you with such respect?" I have to say that I had not wondered why and wondered if he was about to insult me!! He proceeded to tell me that it was because foreigners often think that they are not being served very well by such companies and he wanted to make a point of making sure I didn't think that. I was relieved to hear that. I called a staff meeting. When discussing what topics for the agenda it was commented that if we didn't have anything to talk about then we should just sit around and tell jokes - as good a reason as any to get your staff team together. Then a call came through that 24 civilians have been abducted from the local hospital and one of my staff's wife works there. Due to poor communications he has been unable to get through to her and so is going home now to see if she is ok. I got an invite to go shooting - on a range out in the middle of nowhere, to shoot automatic weapons and pistols. Not sure whether I think that is wise and I haven't taken up the offer.