Work work work work ... we encountered an insurmountable hurdle early morning and got absolutely nothing accomplished today except a ton of googl'ing this and that. The work continues minyana.
I got out with Ivan for lunch which was one of my bigger tastes of Uganda. Based on the time we have spent at work, those tastes have been short and infrequent. Today from 5 until now has been the first time since Friday I have really had any free time.
We went to a nice restaurant for lunch. As normal, he kept swerving into the right lane to avoid rough road and world-famous potholes. They make Queen Mary road look palatial compared to these. We chatted about his life and he has a masters in information technology and is very well versed on the goings-on in the world outside Africa. They use a lot of medium-sized stone for stair cases and walls in the parts of Kampala I have seen. There is some brick but not much. That reminds me of construction in Vancouver ... apparently on the coast there is no clay and hence a very minimal brick manufacturing industry. Based on their weight, I imagine the shipping costs would be prohibitive, making it impossible for anyone to make any money.
Eating out is not cheap, and I threw $42USD at lunch for 2. I think for what one gets at a restaurant in big-city Uganda, if one included that in the cost comparison, eating out here is cheaper than in Canada by 25-30% maybe more. It rained today and it reminded me of a very light Canadian drizzle that can persist for days in a row here or there. Ivan told me there are no torrential rain storms here as I may have experienced in Addis Abeba.
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