technological oblivion

somehow, time has gotten away from me in the past month...and if I have faithful readers, I apologize profusely for the dry spell in blog entries. It has been a long, frustrating month, punctuated by every technological gadget I touch turning to dust. Upon returning from the community to Bogota, I found I had no hot shower, no phone, no internet, no gas to cook with, that my computer no longer connects to the internet, that my cell phone wouldn´t charge, and that my ipod only liked to play 2 songs before ¨resting.¨ And why you ask did all these things happen? For absolutely no discernable reason. I am reminded daily that there are much worse fates than the gods and goddesses of technology telling you not-so-subtley that it is time to take a technological hiatus, but it has been frustrating to be cut off from friends and family...and has been made worse by the fact that this month we have been in high gear planning for a delegation of Buddhists. This means that if you had been in Bogota in April, you would have seen Janice and her teammates wandering fairly aimlessly between internet cafes and telephone places setting up a a 2 and 1-2 week trip for this group. They are here now, I am again camped out at an internet cafe, and will write soon when I have more than 5 minutes to spare about the many many things going on here. Big abrazos...