For the past week or so I've made quick entries about the spectacular weather...afraid it continues yet some more. In a climate such as this, lovely weather is treasured more although foul weather never bothered me. En route home from work last evening (which is only 4 kilometers) I saw spectacular northern lights and again this morning. They were brushing up and circling the moon almost as if it were an object in a river. Despite the fine clear nights of the past week, I haven't seen such a display.

Today, the last day of February, is when all Icelanders get paid...automatically deposited into your bank account.

The other day I was driving along Miklabraut, a main feed to downtown Reykjavik, when suddenly a Fokker 50 shot overhead, so close that I could see the passengers. It was headed for nearby...very nearby...Reykjavik Airport originally constructed by the British at the start of WW II. Since then the city has grown up around the airport, and it’s supposed to move either to the international one at Keflavik some 50 kilometers away or to a site just outside town. The modest building is home to Flugfelag Islands which serves Iceland, the Faeroe Islands and Greenland, rather crumby, barely altered in all the years since I’ve been coming to Iceland. By reason of the airport’s current location, the city and nearby University of Iceland will grab the property asap.

Over the past week I've brought to what I hope is successful conclusion elements of an article for the Lectio page, that is, dealing with Hans Vaihinger's book, As-If. I read it about 4 years back, was impressed and took it up again 3 months ago. This coming weekend I have Monday and Tuesday off, a 4 day block of time, so may devote part of it to the article and perhaps finish it off.

Yesterday two wo co-workers remarked about the Taliban's attempt to blow up V.P. Dick Cheney in Afganistan. They weren't blood-thirsty nor wishing evil but saw Cheney as the power behind Bush and essential an evil, cunning person. I've picked that up here on occasion: common consensus is that Bush is dumb and that Cheney is smart and pulls Bush's strings.