alexpgp | Almost packed...

I finally left 92A-50 at 1:30 pm and ate lunch. In the course of the meal, I found out a rather vigorous schedule of trips had been arranged for town starting at 2 pm. As I had been rather hard at it during the morning, and since Vladmir V. didn't feel like doing the tourist thing, we swapped positions: he became the "on call" interpreter and I went to town for a few hours.

I never tire of watching the people in such places. At one corner, I found an old man, with more wrinkles in his face than you can imagine, having an animated conversation with his cat, which was sitting on a folding table sunning itself while its aged master hawked packs of Kazakh cigarettes.

For practice, I walked past the produce vendors (and managed not to buy anything, despite numerous offers), and just walked around keeping my eyes open. I took a few photos, but it'll be a couple of days before I get to moving them from my camera.

I'm in the first shift of interpreters to go to the airport tomorrow and support loading of the Antonov. I'm almost packed, and have just come downstairs to return some DVDs, paperbacks, and some other borrowed items.

It's going to be a busy day ~~tomorrow~~ after I get some sleep (look at the time!). The transport is due around 9 am, which means we'll be leaving around 8:30, so I better be completely ready to go by 8. Unless something goes wrong with tomorrow's planned schedule, I'm intent on going home on Monday morning.

Cheers...