Saturdays are considered a “Casual Workday” in Darfur, not unlike home. Basically you work if you want to and however much you want to. So I could have slept in had I been able to, but oh well. It gave me a chance to get some video around the house and get into a routine. I took a shower (an interesting experience) and actually ate some breakfast.
Later in the day I worked on a couple of the laptops that they had at the house. Nothing exciting, but I did teach them a little about computer maintenance that should help when I’m gone.
I also discovered that the “no shorts” policy doesn’t apply inside the house, and I also discovered that shorts are a wonderful thing when the temperature is approaching 100. Sadly, due to the policy, I didn’t bring any. The short story is that I now have one pair of shorts and one less pair of jeans. (and a couple of jeans-tubes that I have kept, just in case)
The geeks in the audience will appreciate this: While fiddling around I discovered that I had both seasons of the IT crowd on my USB drive, between my laptop, a new projector that they just got shipped in, and a very interesting choice of backdrop, we sat around and watched the first season. They all seemed to like it, but then again they do have limited entertainment here. 
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You know, I thought about shorts and seeing something somewhere that the “no shorts” rule didn’t apply in the house but it was after you had left, sorry… We’ll have to get you more jeans when you come back.
June 22nd, 2008
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