It's too late for me. Save yourselves!

OK I have gone over to the other side. Yesterday, (Friday) I was to give a test in Discrete Structures. I had the test all ready and sitting in my "new" office. I told Dale we could go up there about 8:30 and that would give me plenty of time. We arrived and there were my two class representatives from the class telling me they had to take the test before 10 because they had another lecture. You guessed it! I forgot that the class started at 8 and not 10. Classes start at different times on different days and I just put all of this on my Google Calendar. I forgot that the Friday class was from 8 to 10 not 10 to 12. I know a few of you out there are thinking "absent minded professor". OK, all of you are thinking that. I have an excuse. I changed my Google calendar from Minneapolis time to Eastern Africa Time and the class times got all messed up. OK -- absent minded professor.

I took the test up to the class and they were all diligently waiting. They took the test without hesitation and we finished only a few minutes late. In the U.S they would have all left after about 20 minutes and maybe one of them would have wandered by my office and said "we missed you". The students here waited patiently and I apologized at length.

I spent the rest of the day fixing screens at the Stiles' apartment. The old screens are slowly rusting away and there were large holes in most of the rooms. I was able to patch most of the 3 and 4 inch holes with pieces of aluminum screen. The larger hole in the bedroom screen was about 2' long and Dale fixed that with -- what else? -- duct tape -- the African handyman's secret weapon. By the way, we have 5 different colors of duct tape here -- including zebra. How many of you can claim 5 different duct tapes?

So the weekend is here. We have to make a run to the market, but otherwise this will be a couple of chill days. Dale has the Sunday off and I have to grade those tests. Hope you all are having a good holiday. We actually found some Christmas decorations up in Neema Crafts (the shop full of foreigners). There aren't any decorations on the lamp posts yet. Wait! There aren't any lamp posts; the street is really dark at night.