August 15th - My WORST Day Here

Today was a bad day.

After breakfast I entered 3 more pages of library books. I was very close to 2000 entries when the power went out. Since the laptop had a full charge, the battery kicked in and the computer didn´t turn off (WHEW), so I just kept entering and saved it before turning it off to head to town.

Jen & I went to Guaimaca in the morning to do a little souvenoir shopping and to check my email to see if our flight had changed. With the national curfew, our flight had changed coming down here, so I was imagining that we wouldn´t be leaving at 1am anymore either. Instead of flying out at 1am on Friday, our flight was bumped up so that it leaves at 10:30am on Wednesday. Two whole days!!! I was very bummed out when I saw that.

If that wasn´t enough to start my day off badly, when I got back to the farmhouse and opened up the laptop to turn it on...all that showed up is what Hans calls the "blue screen of death". I really didn´t know that´s what it was, but it was blue and I´ll bet I tried turning the computer off and on around a half-dozen times! Finally in my frustration I called Bob just to be sure. Perhaps he´d have a "miracle fix" and I could keep entering data, however Bob told me there was nothing I could do. I was crushed!...all that work and there were still around 600-800 books to enter!

Jen & Andrés measured again at supper-time, so I made spaghetti for them when they got back. We watched Pirates of the Caribbean that evening together before heading off to bed.