Hello from Adelaide!

I made it to Adelaide around 3 pm yesterday afternoon. It was a long trip, but my ipod and Mac helped the time pass fairly quickly. I also sat by a nice couple on the flight from LA to Sydney which helped. The United plane we were on was crummy. On all the other international flights I have been on each seat had a TV so you could choose from several movies and TV shows. You could also watch all the details for the flight like where you were and how long you had to go. The food wasn't bad though and I was able to sleep for a couple of hours.

Chris was nice enough to pack some beef jerky for me to snack on the flight over...unfortunately I forgot about it being in my bag and was almost fined $220 AU!! Fortunately the lady in customs was nice and let me off! The next bit of excitement happened on the flight from Sydney to Adelaide. The plane looked ancient when it pulled up to the gate...the paint was chipped and faded and the seats were a bit thread bare. When we took off I thought it seemed really loud on the plane and bumpier than normal. The two ladies beside me almost panicked and I had to talk them out of jumping out of the window. After 30 minutes the pilot told us that there was a problem with the seals on one of the doors and we would be going back to Sydney. The landing was interesting...but safe! They kept us on the plane for 30 minutes or so while they tried to fix it. The person beside me was stinking up the plane and finally begged to use the bathroom so they let us all get off the plane. They ended up canceling a flight to Brisbane and letting us use the plane scheduled for it. I felt bad as the people on that flight shuffled away to another gate! The plane they put us on was brand new with satellite TV for each seat which they let us use for free because of the delay.

I stopped by work briefly last night just to check all the equipment and meet with the electricians. I am a bit worried because they haven't finished the network wiring yet, but I think they will make it by Friday. Hopefully I will be able to setup the server and image a system today and take care of the rest of the computers tomorrow as they have quite a list of other things they need to have fixed.

Thanks for all your prayers and all the calls and text messages...they helped me get through the long flights! I will put some pictures up on flickr as I take them