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Giving Back

It feels good to be able to give back here and there. I lent the Belgians a phone cable on Wednesday to use for a few days, and they've given it back already. Then today, Luc, the medic with the Belgians, needed his compact flash card full of photos transferred to CD. We have some blank CDs and I was able to do that for him. Then this afternoon one of the French military guys wanted to transfer pictures from one computer to another. I had a cross-over cable, and was able to use that to connect the two computers. It was a bit of a fight to get the two computers to share a folder, but finally I was able to get it going. It was very different for me, because the French keyboard is so different, and navigating my way around the operating system in French was confusing. I felt like a young child--I looked at the pictures (icons) a lot! Today was a long day, mostly because it was one more day of waiting, and especially because I knew the parts we need are in Medan. The only reason the parts and Elias didn't come out today was because MAF was taking a break and not flying the Caravan or the 206 today.

Not a lot done today. I did put four tables in place, then ran some network cable to two of them. That will allow us to have six users connected to the switch. If I find I need more than that, I'll add them later. We're thinking that most users will take advantage of the wireless access hotspot, and that they will be able to connect anywhere in the tent city.

Melvin made another airport run, and again didn't get what he went for. Nobody seems to know where the parts are that we need to put the battery UPS together. But we did get a box of goodies, most of it from the US. A twin-size camping airbed, Clif bars, beef jerky, trail mix with dried fruit, assorted energy bars--what a treat!