MicahJohn

Some friends and I took a day trip down to check out some rocks on the Mekong river. Without my computer I’m having trouble manipulating photos, but you can see a few of them here.

I still hope to recover my computer, but in the meantime I am extremely grateful for some of the backups I had. If you don’t have an online backup, you should consider some of the free services like mozy. If you do sign up, let them know I sent you (my referral code is FCZ7H1).

Also, if you sign up, unless you have really fast upload speeds, you may have trouble with your very first backup. It will try to do everything at once, and if it gets interrupted it may try to start all over again. You can get around this by only selecting a little to backup at a time, let it do your documents first, then your excel sheets, then . . .

I hope none of you ever has need of your backup.

Baptisms fit with Easter. Being present at the first baptism ever in a village, is a great way to celebrate Easter!

At the moment I seem to be quite good at breaking things. My DVD player died midway through “Lemony Snicket’s: A Series of Unfortunate Events.” I chipped my tooth on a stone in some food. I broke a guitar string (though those of you who have watched me play know that’s not all that out of the ordinary).

Yesterday I went to give the police extra documents they had requested. The officer in charge of my case was not there. My friends and I were sent upstairs to his desk. We found our self alone with unmonitored access to this officer’s desk, the officer who the night before had been shocked that I’d left my front door unlocked while I took a shower.

Having left the documents on his desk, we returned downstairs to request a copy of the police report that we could take to local computer shops, in case someone came to sell my computer to them, or to buy a power cord for my computer from them. They told us they were not able to make a copy for us, but that we could take the log and make copies for ourselves. The handed us the police log and we walked right out of the station with it and when down the street and make copies of the applicable pages, and then returned it, marveling at how little the police did to protect their records and the privacy of the citizenry who had reported various incidents.

P.S. This computer I’m using doesn’t have a browser with a spellchecker.