Wednesday

Today was a challening one for technology. The slides I had made by the virtual assistant had some unforseen problems...type face not dark enough for reproduction here, sigh. Short of typing everything over again myself (these were basically 'images' grabbed from some pdfs, not editble), I resent the three files to the virtual assistant I hastily hired upon departure, she said by email she would have them Wed afternoon (I thold her wed IN THAIland) not wherever she is) and have not heard fro m her.

I spent the evening typing most of the first presenttaion over again at the local internet store (its not the money on that that's the issue, its the time and discomfoort-stiflingly hot in the store and problem solving for English screens is limited though one of the young assistants there was able to help). Suffice to say their keyboard isn't the same as ours and sometimes I cannot find a key or maybe an attachment won't attach. The Xoom has connectivity issues so sometimes the screen icons aren't there/where they are supposed to be. The young IT guys came to the office (again) today and they were amused, as was I, because we learned together-how to reboot the Xoom, not merely turn off! :-). Sometimes you need two computers-one to look up instructions on how to deal with the other don't you see.

My virtual assistant better come through tomorrow on those two files or I am SOL! The program has to be prepared (paper version) and now we have to stop at school to hand paper to secretary so she doesn't get mixed up on the various files sent. I wish I had her eamil address but they didn't want to seem to give it to me, so I am sending files to a faculty who then gives the files (paper only perhaps) to her for reproduction. Trouble is, if I don't have my stuff early tomorrow, it's this same faculty and I who are leaving on an overnite community health road trip out in rural Thailand (3 hours from here). I even tried to call on my own Cell despite the cowst but I didn't buy a data package and the cell phone they gave me doesn't dial out of country though I can't be certain-I can't seem to get that cell to work for anything. Don't know how to computer dial the assistsant, but she would havve to be logged in/near a computer to receive SKyPE or TANGO wouldn't she?

L