We fly out of San Diego on Sunday landing in Shannon Ireland Monday. The trip is a survey touching on most of the  sites one would hope to see with the usual wonderful OAT stops to meet locals and encounter how they live. For the record we return to San Diego on June 7 and will return directly to Jojoba Hills SKP Resort.

For a first step towards packing, I retrieved the travel duffels from the coach storage bay and transferred them to the shed. I verified that my basic travel clothes are packed away ready to go. In thinking about extended travel by air I decided to replace my travel CPAP with a new machine that fits in my palm and is very automated. It is a bit noisier than my  primary machine but less so than most of the old models I have used over the years.

I have been very busy in the park with some activities that surprise even me. We started a project a year ago to make internet available to every site in the park included in our monthly maintenance fee. That passed in February and ever since we have been working to implement the service. In short we needed to get more bandwidth available to us, provide more connections to that bandwidth and rewire the entire phone room to make it all work. On May 1 the bandwidth came online and the internet tech showed up to replace the connection equipment (I am avoiding talking about the Dslams). He left with some people connected at higher speed and the rest of us waiting until the next day when the phone tech arrived to rewire the phone room. 

Each of 300 phones needed to be rewired to the phone system and to the internet source (Dslams). Since there are 4 connections for each line of two wires  that is 2400 connections or possibilities for error. Many of our volunteer tech team “JCATS” have left the park for the summer and several more of us – see paragraph #1 above – will be leaving soon. Since Friday we have been tracing missed connections, crossed connections and just plain internet nonsense. I will put in a couple of more hours tomorrow then leave it to the few who are staying on. This is going out over the new system 🙂

With all of this I have found time to play Bridge, take walks with Carol and have Happy Hour with friends. Love this place!

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