Hearthwood Life
Home Leave 2012: Azimuth Check
An azimuth check, as Jean has just reminded me, is a bearing point, a time when an outdoorsman pulls out his compass and chooses a point on the horizon as a waypoint. We ask certain questions at this check: Where are we? Where are we going? Where have we been? Is our course good or … Continue reading
Life in the Bubble, winter in Kathmandu
20 minutes left until our generator turns off, as I’ve set the timer, give or take 15 minutes. You know how those little plastic pegs on the timer can be a bit imprecise. It’s winter in the ‘du and that means load-shedding (or on-purpose power outages to the layman) for a large part of the … Continue reading
Units and Measures
Jean found our UAB* (Unaccompanied Air Baggage) list yesterday, scratched onto an 8 1/2″ x 11″ lined sheet of paper. After 16 months in Nepal, some of it holds up. This being our first post, you’ll forgive some naiveté. *UAB is air freight that follows the employee (Jean, the Foreign Service Officer) and is alloted … Continue reading
