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Well, we're almost a

Well, we're almost a week into this new year and here I am again. Guess that's a long enough break from this.

What a huge rainstorm last night! And a lightning strike that sounded like it was in our back yard. Fortunately I had all the electrical things unplugged, which always makes me feel better when I see those flashes outside. I just hope I don't anything fried when I get over to the hangar this morning.

By the way, New Year's Eve was fun. We walked up through town with a couple other MAF families, and took a look at the old man displays. Then at midnight people were burning their old men effigys in bonfires. After that we came home and lit off about fifteen big bottle rockets. Can you believe we even got carried away and shot the last few through the tops of the trees in the 'jungle' behind out house. Couldn't do that in California! Here it's too wet to start a fire if you want to.

It looks like I may head up to Quito this morning by MAF plane. There's a bit of work for me to do in the office there, plus I need to help one of the MAF families up there with their computer. It crashed over the weekend, and although they've got the OS up and running again, they can't connect to MAF headquarters in Redlands with their e-mail client. The MAF families get their mail from the MAF server in Redlands, since they have reliable ISP access there in Quito.

Down here in Shell I've been trying to get a new e-mail server ready. But I'm running into hardware problems, and I can't get Red Hat 7.3 or 8.0 to load on the machine. I can get Windows 98 and Red Hat 7.1 on the machine with no problems. Not sure what the problem is, but it's driving me nuts. I'm also working on doing some testing for the IT guys in Redlands on a simple install for a server that they can manage remotely. Not that we need that here, but I can help them out with some of the testing.