June 23rd, 2008
Day 5 in Darfur - Part 2
See, I knew more would happen yesterday. That’s ok, I can tell you all about it now.
For the techies:
I got the server and tried to insall SBS 2003 only to discover that the laptop was using a SATA driver that SBS didn’t recognize. After slapping my forhead and saying “duh” I found the drivers and pressed F6 at the beginning of the install. That’s when it happened. It asked me to put my driver disc into drive A:. Drive A:? Who the heck has a Floppy drive any more? Well, that shot my server install plans full of holes. So here I am on Day 6 researching and downloading. I think I just might have found a digital angel though. Someone else posted the exact process to get around this. Check it out if you’re interested. And pray that this works.
For everyone:
After having some trouble with the server install and realizing that I couldn’t do anything else without Internet access, we started to head off to Save the Children for dinner. That’s when someone said Haboob and that’s when I saw a huge wall of brown. If you hit that link, it looked exactly like the first photo in the article. Not the least scary thing I’ve seen in my life.
We decided to make tracks over to dinner so that we wouldn’t get stuck in it. I’ve got some great video of the sand and the amazing amounts of rain that came afterword.
So we had a nice lasagna (inside) and headed home. The rain that night was incredible. I think it was the tin roof above me that made it sound like more rain than I’ve ever heard before.
Day 6 is pretty boring so far, so I’ll save that for the next time I get access. Might be a few days, might not.