Lights out!

Saturday morning in Mbarara and the electricity is out. There have been many brief power outages since I've been here but most only last a couple of hours. Apparently, if you wake up to no electricity, as we did this morning, it's a bad prognostic sign. It could be out for all day or longer. Fortunately, most businesses downtown have generators, so I'm able to blog today.

Quite a few people are gone traveling this weekend, so the expatriate section of housing around the hospital is quiet. This means most of the day will be spent reading or working on my lectures. If the weather's nice David and I may head over to the nice hotel in town - the Lakeview - which reportedly has a swimming pool and good liquor.

In case you missed it, the Ugandan president Museveni recently met with president Bush in the U.S. It's hard to find much press on the visit, though. The papers here report that there was talk about trade, HIV, and the small but persistent rebel presence in north Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army. Bush and Museveni have much in common - they are both cattlemen and they both have preserved their position via questionable elections.

That's all - have a good weekend!