I guess this blog fizzled out more or less after the first few weeks of my arrival in Yola.
In lieu of a verbal update, here are a few pics from the past month or so:
Man's best friend
This dog apparently thought the Harp Lager slogan was referring to man's best friend.
Let sleeping dog's lie (or dog's period lie) is my slogan/motto for the time being, after the neighbor's German shepherd, Brown Kare (not pictured here), attempted to alter my life line. He didn't quite connect the lines right though:
Critters and poo
While I can at least rest assured that I don't have to worry about flies and cockroaches swarming in and out of pit latrine (à la Peace Corps Congo village conditions, for example), here's a reason to at least flush before sitting on the toilet:
Better this frog than the crocodiles that are rumored to have come up from the sewer.
On a related note, I'm not too concerned about Kermit the Frog's poop as long as it's ending up in the right place, but I had been wondering whether it was mice, or lizards, or cockroaches, or what that had left dropping in window sills and along the walls of my flat. I was betting on Mickey Mouse to begin with based on the size, but after seeing what other people had to say about this important matter on the Internet, I concluded it was most likely Martin Gecko droppings (oval with a white tip). But if there are any skeptics, here is some fairly definitive proof that poo of this form comes from lizards and not mice. It would take quite a mighty mouse to pull "amazing" wall-crawling feats like these:
Supposedly, snakes have similar poo to lizards, but based on similar arguments against blaming this on a mouse ... and for the sake of a good night's rest, I'll stick with the lizard hypothesis.
While on the topic of critters ... I spotted this creature on the same day I had read about the dwarf vampire porcupine dinosaur (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19830486):
Future office locations?
View from my future office location in the Bagale hills ;)
Or this alternate location in the "FUTY Hills" across the Benue River ... where there's already a covered office space and water cooling system in place:
In lieu of a verbal update, here are a few pics from the past month or so:
Man's best friend
This dog apparently thought the Harp Lager slogan was referring to man's best friend.
Let sleeping dog's lie (or dog's period lie) is my slogan/motto for the time being, after the neighbor's German shepherd, Brown Kare (not pictured here), attempted to alter my life line. He didn't quite connect the lines right though:
Critters and poo
While I can at least rest assured that I don't have to worry about flies and cockroaches swarming in and out of pit latrine (à la Peace Corps Congo village conditions, for example), here's a reason to at least flush before sitting on the toilet:
Better this frog than the crocodiles that are rumored to have come up from the sewer.
On a related note, I'm not too concerned about Kermit the Frog's poop as long as it's ending up in the right place, but I had been wondering whether it was mice, or lizards, or cockroaches, or what that had left dropping in window sills and along the walls of my flat. I was betting on Mickey Mouse to begin with based on the size, but after seeing what other people had to say about this important matter on the Internet, I concluded it was most likely Martin Gecko droppings (oval with a white tip). But if there are any skeptics, here is some fairly definitive proof that poo of this form comes from lizards and not mice. It would take quite a mighty mouse to pull "amazing" wall-crawling feats like these:
Supposedly, snakes have similar poo to lizards, but based on similar arguments against blaming this on a mouse ... and for the sake of a good night's rest, I'll stick with the lizard hypothesis.
While on the topic of critters ... I spotted this creature on the same day I had read about the dwarf vampire porcupine dinosaur (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19830486):
Future office locations?
View from my future office location in the Bagale hills ;)
I guess this would be the elevator access?:
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