Anything and everything I write that has something to do with tech. Maybe it’s a post about the time I blew up that server in 2003 because I didn’t know what bridged networking really meant. Sorry Roger!
The connection isn’t actually as bad as reported by other trainees. As everyone would expect more has happened than can be communicated through this post. The first postal communication test has been received!
Will write more soon… Thandiwe says hi!
Send letters or postcards!
Brian Deyo, PCV (or Krista Clark, PCV)
U.S. Peace Corps
P.O.Box 2797
Mbabane, H100
SWAZILAND
We’re here! After all he wonderful Uno games, and even an in-flight cribbage game, 36 of us have landed and spent the night in the brand new Protea Transit hotel at the Jo’burg airport. The Peace Corps seems to be a little more developed than our expectations.
Just kidding. I just had the last hot shower I may have for a long time. Same to the running water, electricity in my room, and flat-screen TV. Good way to pamper us before we get to see what the real Peace Corps experience is like.
Internet access so far is highly limited and expensive, clocking around $9 per hour or $15 per 250MB. I’m certain this won’t be the last you hear of us, it just might be a few weeks before anything else gets put up here.
Thanks to everyone who helped make our goodbyes so pleasant! We will miss you and write often!
So maybe you are booting up my laptop and you saw that I put www.briandeyo.us on the startup screen. I hope this is the case as that means my laptop has been found by someone that might care about what its future could be. This laptop was stolen from me less than 48 hours before my wife and I join the Peace Corps.
Please Please Please contact me either through this blog, email “brian[at]briandeyo.us” or please call the Tucson Police about case 1006220819. This laptop was to be my lifeline back to this country while overseas. There is a reward for the return.
The laptop was taken along with a SolarGorilla solar panel, an external PowerGorilla battery , an external Toshiba 320GB black & white hard drive, several MicroSD cards, and other small belongings. A reward will be offered for ANYTHING returned.