Still cloudy and a little rain. No news waiting for the transport to return and in the meantime spending the days writing. Saw the foothills for just a brief moment last night. The sun finds it impossible to break thru the heavy clouds. River is about the same. Fishing is good and they have caught several large ones. It helps out on the rice and deng deng. Played a game of checkers with one of the soldiers[;] they have a strange game and you can jump forwards and backwards and every way it seems. Just noticed that today is Friday the thirteenth. We will all be careful. Nothing startling happened however, although we did see a little of the sun for the first time in many days. It was very dim haze[,] the heavy clouds making it impossible for it to break through with all its brilliance. During the evening I played checkers with Dot and learned more about their funny game of jumping all over the boards.
