That's kind of how this week feels, multiple lifetimes have been flashing before my eyes. At work this week I've been getting about as much use as possible out of our new scanner. I can run up to 5 slides at a time through the scanner and they take about 20 minutes to get scanned. So by the time I rename the scanned slides and put them away, then get the next 5 sitting "on-deck" I have 15 minutes to keep on with the rest of my work. So in those 15 minute spurts I've been organizing the information I've gathered, and compiling my facts onto a coherent outline. I am proud to say that this writing is nearly done. I now have a story that flows all the way from 1935 to 1997 and some helpful facts that are beginning to fill in this last remaining 12 years. Let me take this opportunity to say a BIG THANK YOU to all the very busy people who have been responding to my nagging emails trying to figure out what's happened these last 20 years. I doubt any of them have time to read my humble blog, but there's a thank you note out in cyberspace anyway.
So that's basically what my work days have looked like all week; scanning slides, reading emails, looking facts back up in my reference books, writing the outline, writing emails with more questions... etc. etc, so on and so forth. Therefore I'll skip each day's report.
Knocking work out I feel like I don't have a lot else to say, the internet has been working about 50% of the time lately so I try to take full advantage when it's on and fill my time with other stuff when it's not. I'm told the company is working to hook us up to a fiber-optic line which will be great when it's done, but their projected finish date is some time around august! I guess until then we just have to put up with the internet coming and going as it pleases while they un-hook things and plug them in somewhere else.
Monday night I had a real treat, Ken and Carolyn Wade (fellow WGM missionaries based in Kericho, but usually ministering somewhere else) had me over for dinner. Fried Chicken and Mashed Potatos, and Chocolate Cake for desert! I think I kind of pigged out a bit. As a bit of payment for the treat I worked to help Ken figure out some trouble they've been having with Facebook and uploading photos. Let's just say I got the sweet end of that deal.
Tuesday night I got out my pirated DVD and watched a plotless fighting movie. It was fun for what it was, but there's a definite reason that you've probably never heard of The Purifiers before.
The other evenings of this week have mostly been filled with a bit of web-surfing and working a little bit on the video research. Nothing real exciting.
Today has been fun but quite tiring. I started with Laundry which with an interuption of at least 30 minutes took me about 3 hours. I was very happy when i quit! Then I walked to town using the new shorter route i learned last week on my way back from church. I'd say it cuts 10-15 minutes off the walk. I knew today was going to be a big shopping day so I used the back-pack that my friend Mark left behind after visiting along with my cousins. The advantage there is I could carry a water bottle in the side pocket and I kept my hands free after getting my fruit and veggies for the day. I still wound up carrying 2 bags home in my hands, but that's better than 3 or 4.
The Wades had helped me on Monday also by finding another meat store in town, or rather a small grocery store that has 2 meat freezers that take up the majority of the floor space. So I picked up some lunch meat and a chicken there. But the true surprise find of the day was green apples at the market for 25 shillings.
I didn't get home from the market until 3:30 PM and was quite tired of walking so it was a joy to just make a quick sandwich and sit down with some of the guys to start watching Lord of the Rings. We're going to finish the second half later tonight.
Well I guess this post is going to be about as short as this week seems to have been.
God Bless,
Jonny
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