Today did not bring much excitement as the day started off with pain behind the right knee. It made it difficult going up and down on ladders between decks. I have not a clue on how this came to be. Perhaps the “down time” in Samoa, including reading books or just relaxing may have contributed to the pain. Because after that I suddenly threw myself into the hasty pace of getting things done, going up and down ladders to my next destination. Needless to say, it was physically a painful day. How I wish to be 25 again!
The absurdities of excess in enforcing network security came around today. New rules that passwords must consist of twelve alphanumeric characters with a special set of four symbols to mark several words in Latin using some form of Egyptian hieroglyphics that may require use of a keyboard with Cyrillic keys hit me. As I was trying to log in to update my time sheet, I completely forgot my password. Let’s see was it my first child’s birthday using her last name with her middle name written backwards or was it........? Never mind as I requested a temporary password to reset my account. It is funny that you can walk into any office and find a cascade of multi-colored "post its" encircling the frame of computer monitors that consists of passwords to different accounts. So much for security but for the “bad guys” it can cause confusion because there are so many different passwords. I am glad to know that my time and attendance account is safe from everyone from cyber villains to myself. So I wrote down my new password and put it in…that is for me to know. I used to keep a list of passwords used in my PDA. I would like to commend the super secret Microsoft security method for keeping my password list safe. That highly classified security method is known as “systems crash” which Microsoft operating systems have a reputation of doing. I could see the “BIOS” of the HP PDA but the Windows Mobile operating system is nowhere to be found. Oh well, it is time for a Blackberry anyway. I hope that is not Windows based.
I told “L” of the package I sent her the other day. It should be leaving Pago Pago tonight for Hawaii and then to another hub on the mainland for distribution. She should have it in a week or two. I sent a package once from Washington to Samoa via Priority Air Mail and it arrived six weeks later! I did not realize until then that International Surface Mail was dissolved in 2007 because the Postmaster General of the time appointed by B*&h, deemed it was unnecessary because of low volume. Maybe so, but the size of the parcels and quantity sent by one party were quite large. Expatriates and immigrants were large users International Surface Mail. Expatriates bought and received books that way (my experience in living overseas) and immigrants sent large quantities of clothes, gifts and food items. If not for shopping at a bookstore in Seattle, I would not have a book to read as Apia lacks any sort of book stores.
I want to take a hot shower, apply some pain relieving cream on the back of the right knee and hit the rack. But first, need to send out some e-mails and hoping for a reply in the morning.
I bid you manuia-po from the South Seas, drifting off the coast of Tutuila, American Samoa in this warm tropical night.
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