Sunday, March 09, 2003
Still in Kuwait - waiting now to get deployed with the army (maybe marines?) that we're going to be travelling with. There are hundreds of media people here in Kuwait city right now. The dude in the hotel room next to mine is from the L.A. Times. We have been doing as much last-minute preparation as possible, myself and my boss Richard. We have everything working as it should, and the antenna is performing pretty well, considering it's way outside what it was originally designed to do. We worked with the manufacturer and have things mostly sorted out. It's still going to require some attentive driving to make it work well, but we have done lots of testing and I'm confident that it will do the job. Not much else going on here now, Richard just left this evening, so now it's just me and the truck here. I found out the driver is going to be this guy named Bob from NBC. He seems pretty cool so far, I suppose we'll see after we're essentially living in a truck together for a month or more... Still haven't had a chance to upload the pictures. I may get to tonight, but I'm never sure.
Thursday, March 06, 2003
2 days in Kuwait City so far. I finally figured out the time difference and fixed the link to worldtimeserver.com (Thanks Mom, for pointing out that it wasn't working). We recieved our truck yesterday and made the repairs to the antenna. The truck has been painted sand color overnight, so we should be able to go build the radome this morning and start testing. I took some pictures yesterday, and will try and get all the existing pictures I have uploaded and on this page soon. At least this hotel has fairly high speed internet VIA ethernet, so I won't have to explain huge phone bills on an expense report later.... LOL
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Made it to Dubai, United Arab Emirates tonight. We are several hours ahead - I'm not sure how many, and too tired to calculate it right now. Just wanted to update the site now that I've told everybody it's here. Check www.worldtimeserver.com for Kuwait City if the time difference bugs you, it doesn't bother me right now. I'm updating this from the lounge at Emirates Airlines in Dubai, so I don't have full internet right now, so no instant messenger yet. I should be able to connect tomorrow some time from the hotel in Kuwait City.