I found Elton searching for me in the restaurant this morning - I'd caused a bit of a stir by showing up two hours late. I'll blame Gertjan for distracting me with entertaining chat for an hour :) Nice to know that I was missed and my name's now become "The English Man who keeps getting lost and shows up for work two hours late". If I'm late by Zambian time, I must be really late.
The day was mostly spent with fiddly little jobs, labelling the mass of cables in the switch that fed to various access points around Macha. Time well spent but these things never feel productive. Then onto converting the mesh between the IT room and the Ark - more problems, with Austin waiting 10m up a tower while I tried to recover another bricked Linksys.
We were pleased to get things going finally and increased the power output of the access points so the signal now reaches Zimbabwe. On the positive side, they don't need a microwave in the office anymore - you can heat a cup of water to boiling point in three minutes from over 4m away. Sorry Elton if your hair falls out.
The Ark was then ready for the PolkaSpots system and we quickly migrated things to the new system. 1 down, several to go… Progress.
The rain's arrived and with it come ominous clouds. I spent much of the day trying to flee from the weather that was following my back wheel. By dinner time, it had only got worse and I was forced to cycle to the restaurant in a downpour with my new Dutch (another one) friend. Rain on it's own is no problem but in Zambia, there are always other things to entertain you. Puddles so deep you can fit a small baby in them, filled to the brim with deep red mud; frogs bathing in the road; but worst of all, clouds of flying termites that get in your mouth and down your shirt. Apparently they're edible…
(They thought I was nuts taking pictures of the clouds. I think they're nuts for celebrating rain but it's time to plough the fields)!
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