I bless the rains down in Africa, gonna take some time to do the things we never have...

So, as I'm leaving later today for a week-long trip to Uganda, I picked Toto's Africa as today's song.

In inspecting the lyrics, I was surprised by how I'd misheard part of the lyric: I have though that the song talked about "a leopardess" rising above the Serengenti, but the lyrics I found indicate that it should be "Olympus". I'm not sure if I like the shift or not...

I've still got the flipping between to "bless" and "miss" in the subject line to ponder as well ("I miss the rains...").



Back to the trip, I leave today just before 2, get to Amsterdam (in The Netherlands) tomorrow morning and arrive in Kampala late tomorrow. This fun (hopefully sleep-full) flight follows my surviving through both Friday the 13th yesterday, and a rather hectic work-week (I'm saying it was hectic because I'll be out of the office next week).

And as of last night, I'm all packed and ready to go. I just need to put the final touches on my presentation for while I'm there, and I'll be ready. And hopefully while there I'll be able to figure out the seeming paradox that a country on the Equator has temperatures in the 60s-80s... (I read online somewhere that there's a 0% chance for a "Hot" day (above 80°); that it's never been that warm there). But I will find out...

And hopefully, I'll be able to get online whilst there and do a post or two (or if only to hit my blog page so that I have a visit from Africa on it ;-). But I won't know this until I get there... so possibly hasta my return (on the 23rd).

Speaking of my return: the irksome part of this trip is that the last Harry Potter book comes out while I'm gone. That day-of-release delivery is going to waste! (That, and I need to be patient to wait and read it upon my return...)

I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like a leopardess Olympus above the Serengeti