Surrounded by my friends...

... except that they all happen to be computers! I have really turned into the ultimate computer geek today. The main computer for one of our translation teams died sometime over the weekend. On Monday morning, the casualty was discovered. And I have spent the last two days trying to do something about it!

I'm SO glad I have people all over the world at the end of a Skype line who can help me. I even have Andy sending me pictures of different cables by email so I have at least a little bit of a clue as to what he's asking me about :) Who knew there was a difference between SATA cables and PATA cables?

Of course, my little adventures into the innards of the desktop computer was hampered by the rain. The tin roof on the office block is being replaced at the moment. Of course, it's supposed to be dry season now, but somehow, the rains have kept coming. So over lunch time today, it poured. And I mean, poured. When it rains here, it's not just a little drizzle. It's a deluge. So once again, for the second time in a week, the ceiling boards have been ruined and a room has been flooded in an unexpected downpour.

This time, the downpour came into the office with the dead computer. Even after the flood, the ceiling boards were wet and dripping, there was water running down the walls, and quite a few puddles on the floor. At least the computers had been covered by some plastic sheets in the middle of the downpour, so they were safe!

But I certainly didn't want to turn anything electrical on in all that water, so I had to move the computer into the container where all the other computer stuff is kept. I felt like such a geek carrying all the computer bits around the compound, and finding power cords, and getting it all set up again. I even learned how to yank the hard drive and the memory out of the computer!

So there I was, all day long, surrounded by my friends. The Toshiba M1, and his extra special battery. JJ and his faithful service as a backer-upper of data. M3 and her trusty little hard drive with all my music, photos and data on her. And the newcomer, JD7, who just seems to want to keep sleeping, and can't be roused no matter what we seem to do to him! All these little friends of mine - they all have their own quirks, but somehow, they're family. So I'll do what I can to keep them all happy...