On Cattle and Computers.

Seeing as we were without power for about 36 hours, and there wasn't much I could do with the computers, I decided to join the team that was going out in the bush to deworm and treat the cattle around the local villages. This meant driving in a land rover all in the bush along dirt roads to little village settlements where there were herds of cattle. We visited 3 such villages, and each one had about 50 cattle. Each cattle was wrestled to the ground by the locals, then the vet (Toby) that came on the trip with us treated it with various drugs. My job involved injecting about 30 ml of de-wormer down the cow's throat and then marking it with a big orange crayon. The cattle were interesting, espcially seeing how calm they were, although some of the bulls weren't as calm. However, the coolest part of this trip was going out into the bush and seeing some more of the African wilderness.

Later on in the day after we returned, the power was restored. I fiddled around with a few of the hospital's computers, trying to clean them up so they work a little better. It's a shame really, we throw out computers of this vintage of the US. In fact, I just threw one out a few weeks ago. Shipping them can be so expensive though, it's often more economical to just get a new computer sent. One of the laptops, a Dell, is now completely useless because it has a dead battery. No matter that it works fine other than the battery....Dell has designed it so that a functioning battery must be present in the laptop in order for it to be powered on.

I posted about 20 or so new pictures. I'd post more but the upload speed is slow, and I don't want to use too much bandwidth (also why the pictures are shrunk down so small).