my passionate love for mozilla firefox

for the last week, here at work, I have not had access to the bold-italics-size functions on blogger. so irritating.

but today i got full access to my computer (logged on in my name instead of as "administrator") and i downloaded firefox and now everything works. also i do not get constant popups saying, "will you allow this cookie? How about this one?" i just now blocked them all. HA!

anyway, stf says to give details, so I'll try.

Every morning I walk out into the cool air and think, why did I ever leave this continent? The kids in the primary school behind our house chant, "thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen," the air smells like morning fires and green plants, and the sun lights up the tops of the hills across the meadow. We ride dalla-dallas to work and this morning when L said, "Shusha!" the bus broke into riotous laughter and the manic driver DID NOT STOP. G said it louder and the other passengers laughed louder and still the manic driver DID NOT STOP. Finally he did and we bent over laughing about what we could say in a letter of complaint to the dalla-dalla company (there isn't one).

Last night we went out to Nick's, an outdoor grill place, which turned out actually to be Nick Restaurant, not Nick's. Random. Anyway, we arrived and sat down outside and ordered drinks. They were playing all of my favorite East African music ("mos mos, poli poli, mos mos") and little white flowers fell down off the tree above us like a blessing (until one dropped into my soda - but I didn't really want any more anyway). 8 of us ate 2.5 chickens and 3 fish, a feast for the fingers and mouths and stomachs. Also chips and grilled bananas and the guys got some more brochettes at the end because they were still hungry (???). We left late and there were no more dalla-dallas and the taxi drivers hanging around there were either drunk or stoned and also wanted to rip us off. So we said we'd walk and they said, "no, no, very dangerous" and we felt like the only danger we were in was from them. we walked a little ways and flagged down the next car that came and said, "1000 shillings. we'll give you 1000 shillings to the World Vision road." and then were really embarrassed when it turned out to be a politician in his personal car rather than a taxi. but he gave us a ride home and we thanked him more than profusely and walked the last 200 meters beneath every star ever seen on earth.