Written by Lonny (August 6, 2010)
I got nailed Tuesday with bug bites. My best guess is that they are biting fleas that were in the grass at the Farmer’s Training Center. I stopped to take pictures and a couple of hours later noticed that my legs were itching. I can’t think of any other way that I would have picked them up. I guess that I should have sprayed my pant legs down. Now I get three days of itching legs.
In the Sheraton I drifted off in the business lounge listening to the John Adams Biography. I was awakened at 1:00 by security telling me that it was closing. I walked back over to the airport to wait for the ticket people to arrive. I went into the bathroom, shaved and put on my thermal top because it was a bit chilly. I fell asleep again listening to John Bytheway. I slept fairly well considering that I was sitting in an airport chair. I pulled a luggage cart over to prop my feet on to be more comfortable.
The other flights were booked so I had to settle for my original itinerary. I went through customs again into the terminal and tried to sleep more but I wasn’t really tired so I read more of the Old Testament and the accompanying Sunday school lessons. It is so nice to have all of the church material on my iphone. I can easily pull it out and read from where I left off. I have tabs in each of the standard works, the hymns, and several of the manuals. It has been really nice as I travel to and in Ethiopia because there are many times when I am waiting for someone or something and I can just pull out my phone and read.
I was very disappointed with the movie selection on our flight to the US. We were on an older plane so they just had the group screens. They showed four movies, the first three were “romantic comedies” that all promoted sexually promiscuity. Our society is fed so much of that garbage that it is accepted as normal behavior. No wonder there is so much confusion as to what is right and what is wrong. We really do live in troubling times. I was able to listen to the rest of the John Adams biography and sleep on the way.
I started at the Addis Airport Thursday morning at 7:30 am which would have been Wednesday night at 10:30 pm.