software 7 July 2009
Ah, technology giveth and taketh away. While I was waiting at Jo’burg airport and had a bit of wifi access left I used it to follow the scores in the men’s tennis final – it was SO exciting and quite the best match I never saw. But here at the Dublin base the Irish laptop has decided to lose the software needed to activate my dongle thingy (I know, I know, ‘nurse – the screens!’ Hence no blog last night – well, to be perfectly honest, it was a mixture of that and chatting with my sis in law (Rebecca) and drinking wine and the challenge was too too much when I approached it from a northwesterly direction. I have now resorted to the UK system which will no doubt cost an arm and a leg cos I am roaming…
The flight back to the London yesterday was most pleasant except that I couldn’t sleep and my right knee got hopelessly locked and left me with a limp yesterday – of course I immediately thought Deep Vein Thrombosis but seems not and all is back to rights today. The not sleeping led to one great thing – we flew above spectacular thunder and lightening storms over the Congo (I checked the flight monitor thingy and I think that’s where we were) – just remarkable and I think I was the only one awake and looking out at the amazing show nature was putting on over Africa. It was thrilling and humbling – nature doing its thing and me in a tin can in the sky courtesy of man’s ingenuity. Wow.
