It is my last week in Shamattawa. While there have been many disappointments, I have enjoyed seeing the little people acquire new computer skills. I remember the first day I taught the Grade 1s to click a mouse. They were overly enthusiastic. Now they are pretty skilled at running browsers, editors, games and dual-booting.
I arrived with 25 pieces of freight and will depart with about 10, having returned seasonal stuff at Christmas time and eaten a lot. I am making a lot of soup this week to use up my store of sauteed and frozen mushrooms. Combined with catsup and my remaining spices that will make pasta sauces. After my freight departs, I may have to live on low-cal pizza… 
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The lab is pretty well the way it will be in the fall. I have installed FireFox rc3/Ulteo/Opera 9.5/Cygwin on all the XP machines that survive. I have installed keys for passwordless login, so the teacher can turn off all the clients whether they run Debian or that other OS from a script. We still have no spare parts or spare servers. We do have some power bars and a 500 gB backup drive that will be useful. I will clean accounts of the graduates. The IT manual will be about 60 pages of all the stuff needed to run everything, the IT plan, and a summary of what has been done. On top of that there will be an inventory. The air-conditioner is still sitting on a table, for want of a hacksaw… If my replacement reads this, he/she should bring some tools.
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