Our adventures in Burkina Faso, West Africa
I am bored. The adventure has lost its color and has become as bland as tapioca without sugar or milk. A slop of white, transparent, shapeless goop. If Heidi were here she would roll her eyes: “here we go again” and she would be RIGHT! I have certain triggers, which shut me down every so often:
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Hardly!! I have been so frustrated with my inability to work (I feel a bit like the dude in the picture…). Why can’t I work? Things are stacked against me:
1. Power cuts from 9 am to 1 pm every day!! Maddening! Not only are the computers useless, but the fans don’t work. At about 9:01, we start sweating profusely - it’s still around 100 degrees everyday, so writing on paper just leaves a soggy page, illegible later. So what do I do? During the 1st couple of days, I played cribbage with a friend, but once I realized that this is an everyday occurrence, I evacuate the house and try to get some chores done.
2. Jakob gets home at 1:45 pm - I help him with his homework till about 3:00pm. He now does this without sucking!!! Yay!
3. Silas wakes up from his nap at 3:00. I attempt working from 3:00 - 5:00 with very frequent interruptions. Very cute, but very persistent interruptions: Jakob: “Can I play the Wii?”, “I’m bored”, “I’m hungry”; Silas: “Habla blinka bloop” as he climbs into my lap. “Twinke Dong dong da” as he grabs my mouse and bangs me on the head with it. Working out of our bedroom is probably not ideal.
Working 9-5? Not a chance! More like: Working 8:30 pm - 12:30 am.
Anyone else work from home? Help!
Well, the transformation of the blog is pretty much finished. Can you check it for me? Here are the things we changed. Do they work in your browser? Are there any bad links? Does anything just look bad?
- New shading for quotations.
One thing I did to help is to make the “write a new blog post” my home page so it’s the 1st thing I see when I go online.
Well, I have been playing with the blog (as you could tell), so I added something I’ve been wanting to ad for a while: our calendar. This way, you will be able to know what we’re doing and how to pray for us. We use google calendar for all of our scheduling, planning and organizing, so it will always be kept up to date. So…
what kind of outreach is being organized on Sat the 30th? You should come be a part!
what are we doing June 1st? I hope you’ll be praying with us!
where will we be on July 9th, 2009? I’m already dreaming about it… And there’s even a map.
This blog post is actually more of a test - what do you think of the new colors?
