Present
Today I’ve managed to bring back on-line (with the help of LJ-Sec) almost all of my blog entries (all except for 194 of them which I have to go over in more detail to determine whether they should be friends locked or not). I then have to go through and add (manually) the hundred or so blog entries I’ve made since moving back to LJ from WordPress, and the fifty or so from my first blog before there was that handy name change token (…or as I recall it, before I knew that a handy name change token existed) and then
nomadmatan will be fully back and functional (and spiffy, too). It feels good to be back on LiveJournal :o)
I also have to move over all of my emails to my Yahoo! Mail Plus account (and update the address book so it will be functional, once again) and update my social networking sites (more on that later when I do a technology post, which will also explain the move back to LJ a little more clearly).
This whole “not having real communication tools for the past seven or so months” is getting ridiculously old.
Other things I’ve been working on this weekend are updating all of my photos and galleries with photos from my recent journeys and my various albums elsewhere on the net (e.g. facebook, etc.) so that they’re synced…that should be finished by the end of the weekend, I think hope.
Past
So I came back to the Kibbutz last night and went to my Kibbutz family’s house and hung out with them (as I do most nights when back on the Kibbutz). Eventually I hopped onto the computer there and checked my email and did a quick blog update…when I got home I noticed that my laptop was not where I remember having left it.
These past few months, the Kibbutz (through a contractor) has been installing a bomb shelter on my room (my Kibbutz is Kibbutz Zikim, located 1 kilometer from the Gaza Strip, so bomb shelters are a handy thing to have)…this means workers are in and out of my room all day. However, anyone else who really wants to get into my room doesn’t have to work very hard. As part of the process for installing the bomb shelter they take the bay window that’s at the far end of my room and convert it into a door way. Since it is not yet a doorway, all anyone has to do to get in, is slide the non-lockable window to the side with their hand…since the security bars were removed months ago at the start of the project.
Now, not wanting to be chicken little (or to accuse anyone of stealing anything without having definitive proof) it is entirely possible (okay, so not really) that I was so tired this week, so incredibly fatigued (since I had two rounds of guard duty each lasting twenty four hours with two hours patrol, four hours sleep, two hours patrol, four hours sleep, change to rapid responder, wash rinse repeat) that I somehow forgot that I brought my laptop to base and put it in the desk drawer where I keep it when I’m not using it…if it weren’t for the fact that I:
a) distinctly remember not wanting to bring it to base because I had guard duty this week and it wouldn’t make much sense since I wouldn’t be able to get any work done anyway
b) realized that the DSL modem is also mysteriously missing from my room, with the DSL cord and the Ethernet cord
c) noticed that the laptop sleeve which I always take it in is sitting on my desk and
d) also saw that the CD containing the operating system I wanted to install is still where I left it and the only reason for bringing my laptop in was to use a friends portable CD drive to install it since my laptop is a netbook.
However…I don’t want to make any accusations until I’m 100% sure (far be it from me to be a hot head…shut up)…though all signs are pointing to the fact that my laptop was ganavad…and I hope they enjoy the non-functioning, encrypted, English version of Fedora that they’ll have to wipe out before they can figure out how to make the thing usable…providing they know how to install an operating system from a thumb drive.
This of course means that I’ll still be paying off a bank loan for a laptop that I no longer have…and my communication/technology situation is moving in the opposite direction than I had hoped for.
Future
Dinner in a couple of hours at the Kibbutz dining hall, then some more work, then watching Wall-e with my Kibbutz Family, then going home to sleep. Tomorrow I’m getting my uniform from the Kibbutz Laundry Facility, doing some homework, writing some lesson plans, and cleaning my room (which I think I’ll get a head start on tonight, as well, now that I think about it).
Expect a fair amount of updatage soon…and a ton of picture posts. I have a great post about field bags in the works!
moocowinthecity 
gryvon.