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Good Food

There are about five people using the Internet right now in the tent. A few of them wanted to know when we'd close, as the sign says we close at 9:00 PM. Jonathan and I are happy to stay open, as we want to keep using the connection ourselves. Last night we left the system running all night, and the generator actually ran through the night, which I didn't expect would happen. I found out later that for that to take place, someone had to get up every three hours and fill the fuel tank. That's a small tank. Tonight, with the Belgians gone, Leif doesn't want to keep it running, and I don't blame him. So, when it runs out of fuel, if we want to keep using the Internet, we'll just fire up our own generator. As we do that, we won't have to worry about the system going down, because we're happily running on our battery backup. I imagine some of these people will stay here as long as we let them.

The tent city has been much quieter without the guys from Belgium here. There are a handful of guests staying here, so the place isn't totally dead. When I got back from the airport, the Belgians were all gone. Karel had given a couple photos of the group to Jonathan so he could pass them on to me. I wish I could have been here when they all left. I went through the kitchen area and picked up the food they left behind. Some Corn Flakes, powdered milk, biscuits, and some canned main course dishes from French military rations. Karel had also given me four packages of spaghetti noodles yesterday. So we are set with food for now. Leif says that his Swedish team will have some food services set up by next weekend. That will be nice. But, tonight's dinner wasn't too bad. Jonathan had a beef dinner, and I had two dinners. One was pork in a sweet and sour sauce, and the other was sausages and beans.