This morning I awoke to the Korean Hospital breaking into full song just on the other side of my thin drywall partition between my place and theirs. To make things worse, it was on a muffled sound system. I couldn't sleep in much as a result, but that was ok. I dragged myself out of bed, got a quick shower before one of the other religious people at the guest house do, and headed off to get a quick free brekkie at the UB Deli, the restaurant associated with th...

This morning I woke up and it was freezing!!! In fact, the moment I stepped outside snow started falling from the sky. What a strange place this is - yesterday I was hot and in shorts and flip flops, today I'm wearing my down jacket! Anyway, I headed over to CNCF first thing in the morning to ask Boogi, one of the translators at CNCF, if he could translate my poster into Mongolian in his spare time after work. He said he could and took down my number. About ...

This morning I TRIED to wake up early, but it just didn't happen.I set the alarm for 8, but I just kept hitting the snooze button for two hours - I was SO tired from yesterday, plus the new mattress was SO nice!I was trying to get up early because I need to some more work on the longitudinal task, the project that looks at the link between interferon and sarcoidosis.Interferon is used to treat hepatitis C and sarcoidosis is a systemic disease that causes lumps (g...

This morning I woke up early, so I could wrap up fixing this darned computer.It's a lot of work, but I just keep reminding myself that it's really a donation to the Christina Noble Children's Foundation.To get a laptop properly repaired here would be essentially impossible given the local skill.It's not to say it can't be done, but to find someone trustworthy and reliable is difficult even in the states or Australia.Here it's unheard of.Anyway, during one of the ...

Well, I was up very late last night (almost all night) working on that darned computer. I tried my best to fix it but it was so infected with viruses that I had to do a complete re-installation of Windows - yuck! Anyway, half way through the power went out and I had to start all over again. After getting to bed at 5 am I slept in until noon today. I consider my effort to be my donation to the foundation so that they can do their jobs to help the kids. After...