More on Rain

Twice yesterday experienced light rain which is unusual enough in the dry season but looking up there was blue sky, the clouds the rain came from far off. The second time was playing tennis and it went on for about fifteen minutes under clear sky. Don't remember anything quite like that. - dc

Raining

It's been raining some in Bali recently in the middle of the dry season. Pretty hard the other day, a little lake to walk through to get back home. There's been serious flooding and death in Java. This will mean more mozzies as the Aussies call mosquitoes. Bumper year for dengue. 

If something can go wrong

Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents - one list

cuke page for Species Threat #1 - Nuclear War 

Accidents Happen including Nuclear

Union of Concerned Scientists - End Hair Trigger Alert

cuke page for Species Threat #1 - Nuclear War 

Nukes are the greatest danger to us all

from Politico - trump with nuclear codes - expert article showing to me how insane it it to have these weapons at all and especially on hair trigger alert as it is now. the people of the world must demand an end to this madness. - dc

cuke page for Species Threat #1 - Nuclear War 

Muslim wedding

Katrinka, our Russian friend Olga, and I went to a little Muslim office to be there with a few others when our friend Leia got married to a man from Java. It was all in - gosh I don't know - Arabic? They just followed what the presiding person read. At the end he told her to kiss her husband's hand. They signed papers. Photos with them and their three month old baby then with us. No music. No hokus pokus. Olga said she got married in Lebanon in '85 and it was exactly the same. Wish Katrinka had gotten a pic of a family that came taking off on their motor scooter - mom, dad, young boy and girl. The The bride, groom, and the three of us took Nyoman Dogen's bemo, like a VW bus with a side open. He'd brought us there. Then we went to a restaurant Leia suggested. Warung Teduh (Shady Restaurant). Good local eats. No one drank booze. Not a bule (white foreigner) place. Picked up the wedding feast tab for the six of us - about 19 bucks. 

High Tides

in south Bali on Sunday morning the 5th - video on the Tolak Reklamasi site devoted to stopping the luxury hotelling of Benoa Bay and its precious mangroves.