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OK. I've got a

OK. I've got a plan to get the Makuma server going. I'm going to have it brought back to Shell tomorrow, since we have a flight out there. I'll work on it over night, and then send it out again on Friday as there will be another flight. As long as I can figure out the problem in less than 24 hours, that should work well.

We have hot water again. I was taking a shower this morning and started smelling a strange odor. I asked Ellyn to go check, and sure enough, flames and soot were erupting from the water heater. So we shut that off and figured we'd better ask Ron to help with that. But he was heading to Ambato today to pick up some building supplies. So before he left I caught him and we discussed the problem. I figured I might be able to remove the burner/jet and clean it up myself.

But oh, no! The server locked up again sometime during the night. So I spent the whole day troubleshooting the computer that stopped working on Monday (it's really dead) and trying to get the current machine to be a bit more stable. Still no success with that, as it continues to be a problem tonight.

I finally headed over to the house to fix the water heater about 4:45 PM. Then I saw Ron was back, so went to help him unload the van. The we worked on the water heater, and about 6 PM we were making hot water again. Ahhh! I'm really looking forward to that hot shower tonight! And then I think I'll spend the night trying to get a working server put together.