I’ll not be able to blog until Sunday or Monday.Today, as you know, is Thanksgiving in the US. It is the Feast Day of JFK. It is also the Feast Dday of Kenny’s late wife, Jan, the mother of my darling Jason and the Force of Nan. I had a very bizarre dream about the family last night; I’ll be weeks processing it.Wednesday was spent waiting for the power to be on long enough to go to the ATM, to iron clothes, and get the truck filled with diesel. Filling the tank took two trips.I’m on my way to the Ngobe-Bugle Comarca for three days of teaching and testing with UNAIDS and AHMNP. Right now, we don’t know if we’ll be returning to David every evening, trying to find a place closer than a 2 hour daily commute, or if we’ll actually be able to stay on the Comarca. Regardless of our decision, there will not be adequate internet service (none on the Comarca of course. and probably none in any wee town betwen here and David. The reasonable rate hotel in David (hot water, quiet, great cable, air conditioning) still has dial-up service, which I have not the patience to attempt anymore.I have a few words to say about blogging services. I chose wordpress for this blog because it is the only free blogging service I found with an easy “translatable” quasi-Celtic looking theme. It is not easy to use. Embedding or imbedding music is muy complicado! And I like my playlists going when I blog. I like blogmac but it’s a free five blog-only trial service, at this point, and we are not sure if we want to take blogmac money and apply it toward OSX’s new Leopard, which has iword and ilife, I think–or simply purchase blogmac. I used typepad once upon a time, as a test, and I really liked it; but it is quite expensive. I can understand why professional writers would choose it, though. It looks so good and it is so simple. Google’s blogger is much simpler than wordpress; certainly it’s somehow more intuitive; but I’m not sure I want to get into the headache of trying to translate a theme. Same is true with macblog. Every day, it seems, I stumble upon a new and different “challenge” with WordPress. I’m also trying Opera again; I usually use Camino for browsing; Opera doesn’t seem to like WordPress or vice versa. Maybe I’ll get better. I have patience; I just can’t wait!While we’re in and out of power (and water), I’ve discovered that it’s safer to use pen and paper and then move it to word processing (I’m still searching for the perfect word processing application. I’m not a fan of Word. I miss old ClarisWorks.I’m still trying to make my iLike work. Mercury must be retrograde! These are not my best computer days.So, my love and prayers are with you all. Please keep Jason and Nan in your prayers. Remember the bright eternal flame of Camelot.I’m not only thankful to know you all; I am honoured. You are as much family as Kenny. I am blessed.oonie on the Comarca, with gay men! Ahhh.
