THURSDAY, July 17th
I have had it. I have HAD it! I am out of here I'm going home, I'm getting out of this place! I'm DONE! I was just putting away some of Regin's clean diapers and there is a GECKO POOP ON ONE OF THEM!
BBBBBBbbbblllleeeeeeeaaaaAAAAAHHHH! GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!
Ok. I'm done. No I'm fine. No it's ok, really. I'm ok. I just had a, um, a moment. But now I... well, I'm fine. Thank you.
Later that day...
Thank goodness I took the diapers in already. Because it's raining in our laundry room. Everything, including the floor, is drenched. On days like these I really wonder about the safety of having a washing machine outdoors. (That white corner on the bottom left is the washing machine.)
These photos don't do the rain justice, but check the water coming in on the inside edge of the wall. I think I need to learn some rain photography tricks, because I'm just not capturing it right. Hopefully you'll see some improvement there by February, because I definitely get opportunities.
Although, sometimes I don't have functioning cameras available when it rains. After I took these shots, I was eager to be like the locals and open all my windows to enjoy the cool, rain-drenched air. It was nice, and the sound was great. I just love the rain.
So then I walked in the kitchen and noticed that the egg I had pulled out of the fridge was covered in these enormous droplets of condensation. They were so huge and there were so many of them, and I was so in awe that this could happen from the moisture in the air that I had to take a picture. My good camera was out of memory. So I grabbed my crummy camera, but just as I was about to take the picture, I zoomed in and... my camera died, mid-zoom. I changed batteries, but it didn't help. Crud! Ok, so I tried emptying the pictures off my good camera, but then it was acting very odd, and the transfer kept failing, and then it died! Then, my computer crashed, and I think our image drive shut off. Do you know why? The only explanation I have is the excess moisture in the air! All the electronics started failing when I opened the windows and let the high humidity in.
My good camera has already shown a finicky nature for the humidity and I was warned about it when I bought it. But I think it's mostly when you go between cool/dry and hot/wet that there is a problem. I thought it would adjust after we'd been here a while. But I guess it has to adjust between AC and rainy air too. So now I know not to open those windows on rainy days unless I don't want to use any electronics in the next several hours.
My crummy camera seemed to not make it through the transition at all. But, I'm writing this two weeks later and I'm happy to report that a couple of days ago the little guy miraculously returned back from the dead.
[UPDATE: as of a few days later, it stopped working again. It may be a goner thanks to all that moisture.]
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