Thoughts in Brownian motion

Aka Random thoughts.

1. I want a break from work and yet I can't have it. I don't like the arrangement of having to work all through the holidays except on December 24 and 25. I want to have a sleep in weekend and an island holiday.

2. I have a feeling that the Serulanda Foundation will have their way inspite of the weirdness of their practices, and with the full participation of our M7. While the president instituted a comission of inquiry months ago, his government has at the same time been commissioning the investors and organising the legal framework under which the Lake Victoria Free Trade Zone will operate.

3. Reading about surrogate mothers in newspapers and the Internet is one thing, but knowing somebody who actually went through it is quite another thing. It hit me like a big block of ice when I heard that the beautiful young relative who had gone abroad for about a year, had actually gone to be a surro for her older sis. I should be touched by the whole giving thing, but instead I still feel chilled. I don't know why.

4. At what age do children learn to demand the bigger portion of everything? And where do they learn that if they screamed and kicked long enough you will eventually give in? Who teaches them to resort to endless nibbling especially when the cookie has become no more than the size of a pea? Is this an attempt to prolong the life of the swiftly diminishing cookie?

5. So on Tuesday last week Museveni and the LRA representative Nyekorach Matsanga meet and we are told the president agreed to talk to Kony one on one (on phone, by the way). Then on Sunday this week a joint Uganda-Congo-South Sudan force bombards the LRA hideout in Garamba. How interesting. Now if this is the same Matsanga who early this year reportedly wrote a letter to Museveni urging him to carry out swift military action against Kony, then I think the Tuesday meeting was about talking to Kony in the language of the gun.