Bitterjug’s blog

I mentioned the sunsets recently, here is one for you to enjoy. It looked even better in real life.

Last night I went to visit the college secretary who gave birth to a beautiful new daughter on Tuesday. I held baby Eukeria (named after Sr. Eukeria, her sister is called Euphemia) for over an hour […]

This morning I came to the lab and turned on the new Linux server that I have been playing with over the last few days. Well, hang on, lets go back a bit: first I turned on the UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply — something very necessary here in the land of blackouts and spikes), […]

On Monday I went with Eliud Ngumi (of Mama Darlene’s) to visit his house. This was my second trip away from the tarmac.
I felt a few weeks ago that the time had come for me to venture away from the tarmac. Its not quite that bad: I have been on un-made-up roads since I’ve […]

The Zebra at Hell’s Gate National Park at Naivasha, knowing my sense of humor, kindly posed for this photograph.
I went to Lake Naivasha with Christine (another VSO who arrived in Kenya with me) and her friend Shauna. It was a fantastic weekend, more photos and stuff below…

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Came back from my trip today. A little low on sleep. Sat on the matatu reading Michael Moore’s “Stupid White Men” and had to hold back tears.
I’ll read more of that when I have caught up with my sleep.
And I’ll write more here about the weekend soon too.

Newly installed, the hit counter over on the side-bar! The formatting could do with improvement, but I’m happy because it works!
Geek alert

I did that this morning while re-installing our second linux-box. One of the staff here set it up originally and somehow it ended up with a very small partition for /var which soon […]

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I met this fellow in Nairobi’s safari park when Cyka took me there. The picture turned out larger than I expected; click and you should get the full size one.
I was back there a week ago with some people from the Amani Councelling centre whom I […]

Oh! I feel better for that. Perhaps not as funny as the Toss Pot but worth including, I think. There is also a local detergent called “Gental” which I always mis-read now.
Feeling a little groggy today. Because I had about 12 hours sleep. I think I might have done it just to demonstrate my independence […]

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes this morning
was exactly this, without any intervention from me:

I simply had to go get my camera and get back into bed to take the picture.
The next thing I saw
Ok, after I got up and looked at my phone, was this:

Who that then?
This is my teddy-bear, […]

Just to let you all know I’m thinking of you and with you in spirit.
I’ve spent the afternoon in the Cybercafe which is closed on sundays so I could work on the machines and try to clear the viruses, spyware and Catholic-kitsch screen savers (you would **not** believe!) off them. So I was in […]