The final tally for Day 1 was about 2100 words collected, once all of the folders were turned in that had been started on Monday. We recorded another 1600 for Tuesday, but we don’t know how many more were collected but are still with the word-collection groups until they finish the entire folders. I expect that the total for Tuesday will reach 2000 or more once we have all the data in.
Anne-Christie continued to apply her ‘magical touch’ to the computers that the typists are using. One of the computers that the typists were using yesterday refused to start up this morning. The problem was about not being able to find some sort of media and then not being able to boot. She picked up the computer, turned it upside-down and side to side a few times, and then it started. And it continued to work fine the rest of the day.
The virus-infected computer was pronounced “clean,” so we got FLEx up and running on it first thing. When we copied the language data onto it, there were a few things that I was able to adjust, but then it was time to get the Amharic keyboard to work on it and that’s the part of the operation that I have not yet figured out how to do. I gave Anne-Christie a file that was given to me by the linguistic coordinator in the capital city before I left to come here, having been told that I might need it, but having no idea how to use it. She took it, figured out how to use it, and got the Amharic working on the new computer for the typing pool, while I was dealing with other issues that had come up.
We encountered yet another problem with the second “indigenous” computer. The huge Service Pack that Anne-Christie had downloaded Monday afternoon turned out to be for a 64-bit machine, while the computer in question is 32-bit. So we still can’t configure that computer to run FLEx. She tried during the day today to download the correct one, but there were too many other people using the available bandwidth, so at the end of the day, she asked the computer’s owner to try to obtain the file somewhere in town. We’ll continue our efforts with that computer on Wednesday.
My health is now good, with just a bit of residual cough from the flu. I am eating better now, too, finding a number of things that are acceptably palatable. My morale is much improved from a week ago, when it hit a very low point. The frequent nosebleeds I had experienced upon arrival in Addis Ababa are now very infrequent. That is most likely due to the lower elevation here (5000 ft) and higher humidity, relative to the capital city.
Kevin Warfel
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