All was supposed to be finished yesterday and I came home to make myself a cup of tea when an email popped up. I looked at it, it was from work. The materials we’d uploaded well in advance of the deadline had gone haywire: the aardvark text was under guppies and the the coyote material under muskrat and repeated under guppies. A few frantic minutes later I realised that there was clearly something wrong with the system, not with the uploads, as there was a constant stream of error messages as well, and it was impossible that all the changes had been made in that way.
In the morning, today, we went through each item one by one, found a few more that had gone haywire, and corrected them. There was a sudden rush of errors at around 11, presumably when the middle east started coming to the office and accessing the system, but eventually it was done.
I slept remarkably well and when I woke up it was icy – grey frost everywhere, and when I went to the office, the car’s windows had a thin sheet of ice on the inside and the outside. Commonplace for people in colder climates, but one doesn’t think of this sort of stuff in Pakistan, unless one lives in the colder bits — up in the mountains or the hills (Murree has over a foot of snow), or in Quetta (also in hills, I suppose).
Meanwhile, the trouble with Iran continues. It is terrifying, even with the apparent drawdown. At least the face of the US is bare to all, though I thought the same before the Iraq invasion, and it made no difference.