going nowhere

This is my really tired face this morning.

This was the second day of 6 am wake-ups to discover they were in vain. I woke up this morning to shoot up to Aberdeen (2 hours north) and be with the Calvary Missions Team who is doing construction at a church up there. I had the train time all set up assuming it would cost about $40 (internet pricing) to get there roundtrip for the day. Because the train was packed, they were going to charge me $140 roundtrip, which to sum up is absurd. Needless to say, I couldn't spend that kind of money for being there only a few hours.

This past monday morning, I woke up at the same time to go to the airport and say hello to the team as they were going from plane to bus up to Aberdeen. I waited at a bus stop for 20 minutes w/ nobody awake in the city except myself and Charles, a passed out drunk who must have thought for the past several hours that the bus stop was his apartment (nobody up at 6am in th city, which made me realize that this capital is likened to a large town). I took a half hour bus to meet tony and another half hour to get to the airport to discover that their plane was 2 hours delayed and Tony had a meeting to get to. Missed saying hello. On the bright side, you do get a lot more accomplished in a day when you're up for 22 hours.

A typical person w/ a 9-5 gets up around this time, or thereabouts, but they usually don't go to bed at 4am. (except maybe my friend Gio Reyes, who's favorite line is "you're only 23 once"). I got caught up each night with being amazed by technology:

I did video "ichat" with Andrew Decort, currently a University of Chicago graduate major. I remember doing video chat several years back, but my how a few years has improved it. It's literally crystal clear reception both in audio and visual. There's nothing more amazing than talking to someone in front of your wireless laptop on your couch several thousand miles away!

This has been around for a while, but one of those technologies that will remain a novelty for a while.

It's 6:30am, good night for a few hours.