Happy New Year

Location: Nangi, Nepal
Local Time: Sunday, Jan 1, 2005 - 7:51am

Well, another year begins. This year I resolve to finish what I start.

It was another thouroughly uneventful evening in Nangi. Yesterday was the day off for the week, so it was laundry day. Unfortunately the bucket was busy, so I didn't get to wash my laundry. I'll probably take a moment to do that today.

I closed down the computer lab at about 7:30, an hour after Internet access was gone. Then, I cooked a rather unpleasant soup to have for dinner. In an effort to make a thick soup base without any soup stock, I sauted some onions and garlic, then added a little flour to the oil and then water to that. Unfortunately too much flour, and, as some of you undoubtedly know, flour and oil are gravy. Except good gravy is made from oils produced from cooking meat, not from cooking oil out of a bottle.

It was edible, but not savoury.

Fortunately Milan had cooked some bread and a nice pudding earlier, so that helped smooth out my disappointment.