Huh — I typed “combination US Canada flag” into my search engine and darned if that isn’t exactly what I got–and what I was looking for. It’s gotten to the point where if you can think of it, you can find it.
Anyhow, this is right smack dab between the two national birthdays, so it seemed apropos. Being an expatriate, I get to celebrate both, but I only get a holiday for one.
I spent most of yesterday evening on a WebEx meeting with my colleagues in Japan. Darned time difference. There was a time when it worked to our advantage, though. I was working on a software project with my peer in Japan. I would work on the code all day long and upload it to the project management database at the end of the day. My colleague would extract it and pick up where I left off during his work day, which was completely out of sync with my own. So we had almost round-the-clock development.
I’m in the middle of too many books. I’m reading one novel for pleasure, one for review and another as research for an essay I have to write. The latter is Children of the Night by Dan Simmons, which I just started last night. I read the book when it was first published, but I’ve forgotten most of the details. Reading about the demise of Ceausescu reminds me of Iraq’s situation post-Saddam for some reason, though the parallels are slim at best.
It’s only 98° today. What a relief. No rain, of course. We’re 7″ behind annual average at this point. Of course, we’ll make that all up on one horrific day sometime soon, I fear.
