Day 2: Network Topology and Coffee Farm

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Day 2: Network Topology and Coffee Farm
by Saint on Tuesday May 09, @01:51AM

I met with Joe Wiatt today, a board member of Faith in Practice which is the Houston-based group we are doing missionary medicine with. He is here this month making sense out of chaos. As I mentioned before, the network wire is going to be a tough run through the hospital which is an aggregate of buildings built over 320 years. We decided to punt the job of running the network cabling to a local engineer who has more time, tools and expertise with Hermano Pedro to do it. It looks like we are going to setup the server and a client in the administrative offices, 1 client in central supply, and two in the surgery suite. We brought a cheapo Link-Sys router along which I tested in Houston, but unless we want to run two cables to the administrative area we are going to try to buy another router here locally so that we can have a single four wire cable running to the administrative area. Not all is sweat and grunt work today. We toured a beautiful little coffee plantation run by Dr. Alfred G. Thompson who has a colorful past as a school principle, University professor and now empressario of the Los Nietos coffee farm in a little hamlet outside of Antigua. A former garbage dump, Thompson bought it in the last years of the Guatemalan Civil War in 1991. He has built a beautiful refuge full of flowers and coffee plants. I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but the smooth flavor of his pure beans was something even I could appreciate. The place was full of hospitality and good taste. Highly recommended. Tomorrow, I may play a little hooky from Spanish language school to semi-direct or confuse the engineer about the network wire runs. Until then, hasta luego.

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