It’s 10am sharp and here comes my friend Beth down the road to open the Computer Center. Now, I have an “Edge Speed” (think that means 2G) at my house but the speed is so limiting that the 200megs of bandwidth they give me per month only allows me to check the mail about a dozen times a month. I save that for when the weather is bad or I am just too lazy to walk.
I find my regular seat at the #2 Computer and wait until Beth boots up the system. I asked her for a picture and here she is.
Beth.
The computers and the broadband connection were donated by a group out of Minnesota. There are no telephones except Cell Phones in Accompong Town so this connection is a beamed in signal from Mandeville. Here are a couple of pictures from the Computer Center.
It only takes me about an hour to get all the things done that are on my list of things to do. I have a laptop at the house and a couple of thumbdrives so I can store what I need to send and then just cut, paste and download the information. Often I will get done with a few minutes to spare. Some enterprising youth wait until I am getting done and ask for the minutes that I have left out of what I paid for. The computer time on the Internet runs $2J per minute and I always give them $100J for the 50 minutes.
I think I hear a friend’s vehicle coming up the steep hill so I go outside to see if I can get a ride back to the house. Towards the end of my stay, I was feeling much stronger and walked back every time even in the rain.
Peace and Guidance
