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All quiet on the Kazakh front...
Jan. 5th, 2005 10:29 amAt least from here in Area 95.
Our boss, Viktor K., redid the interpreter schedules yesterday, as it had been decided by TPTB that things were going smoothly enough to not require the presence of an interpreter at the полтинник at oh-dark-thirty any more. There are no complaints from this quarter, believe me. According to the current schedule, my work day today will start after lunch, and I find myself brooding about life, the universe, and everything here in the ILS office at the Fili.
РосБизнесКонсалтинг (don't expect the link to work for very long, and that's "RusBusinessConsulting" for the Cyrillically challenged) reports that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (aka, "terrorist No. 1" in Iraq) has been captured. In announcing this news, they simply relay what they heard, apparently, on the Эхо Москвы radio station (who undoubtedly got it from someone like Itar/Tass, who in turn... you get the idea, yes?). The smirking use of the word "наконец" ("finally") in the lead sentence was not lost on me. From what I've been able to gather by looking around the Internet, the report has been denied by the U.S., either because it's actually not true or because someone's trying to play a few hours of mind games with Al Qaeda management.
I finished the next-to-most recent tale in the Starfist series (Lazarus Rising) written by David Sherman and Dan Cragg. I say "next-to-most-recent" because apparently, the series has become popular enough to make it feasible to print the latest offerings in hardcover. Said tales are then offered in paperback upon publication of the next hardcover story. The story line remains imaginative, and various dead-ends in the plot hint at fairly interesting future developments.
I am in the middle of a fairly old book, Think Fast, Mr. Moto by the late John P. Marquand. I find the story... quirky, is the only word that comes to mind. My first impression is that the author has his characters engaging in entirely too much speculative thinking based on too little evidence, and of course the action is a little on the thin side for my taste, but the book was written for a different time. Still, I continue to turn the pages.
Cheers...
Our boss, Viktor K., redid the interpreter schedules yesterday, as it had been decided by TPTB that things were going smoothly enough to not require the presence of an interpreter at the полтинник at oh-dark-thirty any more. There are no complaints from this quarter, believe me. According to the current schedule, my work day today will start after lunch, and I find myself brooding about life, the universe, and everything here in the ILS office at the Fili.
РосБизнесКонсалтинг (don't expect the link to work for very long, and that's "RusBusinessConsulting" for the Cyrillically challenged) reports that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (aka, "terrorist No. 1" in Iraq) has been captured. In announcing this news, they simply relay what they heard, apparently, on the Эхо Москвы radio station (who undoubtedly got it from someone like Itar/Tass, who in turn... you get the idea, yes?). The smirking use of the word "наконец" ("finally") in the lead sentence was not lost on me. From what I've been able to gather by looking around the Internet, the report has been denied by the U.S., either because it's actually not true or because someone's trying to play a few hours of mind games with Al Qaeda management.
I finished the next-to-most recent tale in the Starfist series (Lazarus Rising) written by David Sherman and Dan Cragg. I say "next-to-most-recent" because apparently, the series has become popular enough to make it feasible to print the latest offerings in hardcover. Said tales are then offered in paperback upon publication of the next hardcover story. The story line remains imaginative, and various dead-ends in the plot hint at fairly interesting future developments.
I am in the middle of a fairly old book, Think Fast, Mr. Moto by the late John P. Marquand. I find the story... quirky, is the only word that comes to mind. My first impression is that the author has his characters engaging in entirely too much speculative thinking based on too little evidence, and of course the action is a little on the thin side for my taste, but the book was written for a different time. Still, I continue to turn the pages.
Cheers...
