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More Energy Please

Yesterday was my last day taking anti-malaria meds. I hope I pick up some energy from here on out, since there are side-effects to those medications. It's not like me to go to bed by 11 PM, and take short naps at lunch, and that's where I've been the past couple weeks. Guess the good news is that it looks like I didn't get malaria while I was over there. I'm still wishing I was there, and went as far as to ask my managers if I could go again in April, since there was a need. But yesterday I realized I'd better not pursue that. It's too close to the date of our departure from Ecuador, and I'll need to be around to train and assist one or two guys as they prepare to take over some of the basic tasks I perform. Also, it's not the easiest for the family if I'm gone another month, especially Taylor. He did tell me that if I was to go again, that I had to take him. I wish I could, as that would be a neat experience for him to have. Anyway, I've been a bit depressed today, knowing I can't go back to help again.

I worked on some linux server maintenance today, and took care of some log files that were growing too large. Some of those required me to configure a log rotation file, which was a good review for me. Also, the problem I had yesterday with re-boots on the Windows 2000 server has not resurfaced today. Changing the power supply did the trick. We had some nearby lightning yesterday, and today I had to give out a modem and a hub to a couple of the MAF guys, as they were affected. I really don't like losing equipment to lightning.