Waiting for DHL
- Aug
- 29
So here we are, waiting at DHL in Arusha, hopefully in the last few minutes of what has been a long run trying to get Christine and Natasha’s passports so we can go to Canada. We’re supposed to fly Monday. DHL closes at 1PM – see the clock? But just as long as the truck […]
read moreQuite an Entry, My Son!
- Mar
- 23
Well Ben, you sure know how to make an entry! Yesterday (Monday) morning around 3:30am, Christine started having contractions. She kindly let me sleep until almost 7, and then woke me up to have me start cancelling my scheduled day. I was supposed to be in Burlington for a whole day of meetings – looks […]
read moreReady for the Road Trip
- Feb
- 24
It seems like Christine and I have a thing for road trips – we’ll be back in Canada until the end of May, and while there, we’re going to be doing a LOT of driving. Christine flew back with Paul a couple of weeks ago to make sure she was safely back before the airlines say […]
read moreGoogle Again
- Jan
- 08
I’m astounded over and over again at the internet treasures that Google manages to dredge up! They really are doing some cool stuff, privacy and other concerns aside. Here’s the latest one I’ve found – the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
read moreMissions and the Art of Carburator Maintenance
- Dec
- 20
There’s a dark side to the saying, “neccesity is the mother of invention.” Here in Tanzania, and elsewhere in Africa as well, you can get anything repaired… but most often, not quite right.
read moreThe sick kid wave
- Dec
- 06
One of my friends recently retweeted a good line. The tweet said, “Non-parents, you have no idea. Period.” I laughed. Tonight, though, when the princess is lying in bed writhing and getting ready for what very well may turn out to be an eventual puke session, I’m reminded of that line. You see, we expected […]
read moreVama – The Restaurant
- Aug
- 25
Jesse and Davin decided that the four of us should go out for supper. We roped Uncle Jacob and Auntie Kim into watching kids, convinced Christine that eating out was a good idea, and made reservations at a place that none of us had ever been to. Once Jesse was ready to go (the other […]
read moreTrying to Have a Website
- Aug
- 20
It seems to be rather a challenge for me to keep my own website running. Personal versus corporate… The corporate has been winning recently. I can tweet @jerdf, I can stay on top of Facebook (http://facebook.com/jfeser) but I do not seem to be able to blog with any regularity. I’d really like to do it, […]
read moreMoving Update
- May
- 20
Well, we’re moved. As of yesterday evening, all of our stuff is out of the Corner house and into the Blue Tile house. I won’t say it’s very well organized, very neat, and it’s hard to say how much unpacking we’ll get done before we leave for Canada in a month, but at least we’re […]
read moreMoving in, and a Summary of What We’re Doing
- May
- 13
When we arrived in Tanzania in November of 2007, we “temporarily” moved into the corner house. It was supposed to be a short term solution while we renovated the blue tile house. Well, it’s now May 2009 and we’re renovating the blue tile house. Jeff & Jan arrive from Kitchener on the 19th (yup, that’s […]
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