Month: September 2005

  • Frustrating couple of days

    The last few days have been the kind of frustrating IT days you can have anywhere. It’s just that here I’m sleeping in a classroom, showering in a portable shower unit, and eating wilderness fireman food in between the continual IT hassles. As has been observed countless times through history, this job would be OK…

  • Life in the EOC

    First, be sure to read the Radio Response website. I am the primary author there, so reading that is as good as reading this. Except there I have to be a bit more professional and circumspect. A few days ago I moved to Bay St. Louis. The work was really heating up down here for…

  • Superfast update

    Super-fast update, since I am in the middle of stuff here, but also realized I haven’t written in a while. I have visited Bay St. Louis. The destruction there is incredible. I have not seen the water front, just the wind and flood damage several hundred yards inland. Our team is kicking butt here, but…

  • First full day

    Yesterday, I worked my first full day. So I’ve been at work 1.5 days. In that time, two new people have come in. I made a minimal system to get people up and running, and tried it out on the next two after me. I suspect that as I start working in the field it…

  • Day 1

    My first day was half a day because I got here and got put to work after noon. I spent the first while getting the lay of the land, the people, etc. The Bay St. Louis team was getting loaded up to head south, so there was some work to do there. Once they left…

  • Arrived in Ponchatoula

    I arrived in Ponchatoula a little while ago. I can tell I am going to like working with these guys. The trick now is to find a job and start doing it. I think perhaps I will start the same way I did in Guatemala, by drawing a network diagram of the staging area here…

  • With Cliff in Dallas

    I dropped in on Cliff McCarthy in Dallas for the night. Cliff and I enjoyed dinner and chatting, then a big shopping trip at Walmart. Came in way under budget on food and water, so either I am going to starve, or I was being pessimistic when I budgeted. Cliff reminded me that not only…

  • Flagstaff

    I am in Flagstaff right now. I will have dinner here, then hit the road to get another hour of progress eastward then bed down for the night. I will hit the road again at dawn. Random data from the road: gas in Bakersfield was 3.35. The higest I saw was 3.65, on the border…

  • Leaving Redwod City

    Leaving Redwood City about 7:15 am. Next stop, Albuquerque.

  • Change of Plans, again

    I’ve gotten in touch with some great guys who are installing WiFi in shelters in Louisiana, and have decided to make a trip out there in my car to work with them. Being outside the Palo Alto area will likely disrupt my attempts to get placed with Red Cross, so I plan to drop by…