From the news room: . . I was thinking about Halloween tonight, a distant echo here, and listening to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” while  pecking away at this post. Just after, found a good sized bat flying in the breezeway outside my door in the darkness. . Don’t get…...

. We’re tucked in now, but will reconvene, same place, tomorrow. . David...

Today had an easy, guided feel, like driving a good two-track dirt road. It was a holiday, Kenyatta Day, as I mentioned. But the guys preferred to work. We sang the national anthem with putty knives in our hands. . Oh God of all creation Bless this our land and…...

We finished up the paving slabs a few days ago, once we got our system down it was smooth. Here are a few snapshots from then and today. Tomorrow is a holiday, Kenyatta Day. The 10th was Moi Day. Were playing through on this one. . After Gilbert and I…...

This morning I tried not to swear, out loud or to myself. Pretty good success with the former, and fifty-nine failures with the latter. One for each of my, as of today, mounting years. Work was unhinging me. Once I thought the top of my head was going to blow…...

When it comes to construction, things are usually pretty straightforward here. We dig, we stack, we shape, we hoist, we level, we pass heavy things one to another. We obey the laws of physics, as much by inclination as constraint. Take the karai, as an example. Elsewhere it might find…...