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This And That

• Taylor has spent a lot of time playing with Joel in the past two weeks. Joel is in Taylor's fourth grade class, and his dad is a pilot/mechanic. While Joel's mom has been in the US for the past two weeks, Joel has come over to our house after school to do his homework, and on Saturday while his dad was the pilot on call. They have spent the bulk of their time building a fort and playing in it.

• I spent quite a few hours in the past couple days building a yagi antenna for an 802.11b wireless connection. I found a diagram and dimensions on the web, and started work Tuesday afternoon. Today I went over with Curtis to his house and found the antenna doesn't work at all. That was a bit disappointing, but not unexpected. I have an idea about how I can improve things, but it involves a bit of an investment in equipment, and money is tight right now for the program.

• Steve Dunbar is up in Quito tonight, and tomorrow will take the written exam needed to get his permanent license. It will be interesting to see what sort of test he gets. When Dale took the test, it was 100 questions. When Kevin took the test, it was 200 questions!

• We're getting low on avgas. This week all the other operators in Shell ran out of fuel, and have been begging us for fuel. We still have enough to keep operating at this point. We are supposed to get more fuel next week, but the deliveries haven't always arrived when scheduled in the recent past. Currently there is only one supplier of avgas in the country, and the price has increased 9% in the past few months.

• I subbed in Dustin's class yesterday for a couple hours, and then again this morning. Mr. Umble has been sick. There are eight students in the class. Dustin and Taylor W. are the two seventh graders, and the other six are in eighth grade.

• It's now been two weeks since I took my iBook up to Quito to see if I could have it repaired. I'm hoping that the part has been ordered, and will arrive in Quito by tomorrow. Once they have the part, I'll run up there for a day so they can install it. I MISS my iBook very much!!