Zulu Incomplete

Almost two months have gone by without a single “weekly” update. Shame on me.

In the last update I mentioned that I was moving the following Sunday. I am proud to report that I have now been living in the same apartment since that day. Eight weeks in a row, a new personal best for the year It really has proved to be a good location and the roommates are good company.

In these last two months I have been working furiously on a redesign of Malaga Media Centers (MMC) Arabic outreach site, toiling endlessly to perfect the user experience of the media portion of the site. It’s getting really fluid, I’m proud of what has been accomplished, a few details remain that need working out, but they should be finished this week. That said, I am presenting the new design tomorrow morning at the department meeting.

Once I finish the media site I need to align the forum design to match, which promises to be an arduous process thanks to the archaic architecture of the vBulletin forum software.

Also, I have been making preparations for a work trip to West Africa in January. The Avant Recruitment Director and I will be scouting some new territory for Short Cycle Church Planting Teams and I will be recording video and taking photos to send back to North America to be used in recruiting materials.

As part of preparations there are visas to acquire, inoculations to acquire, and a myriad of other concerns to address. Last Friday (American Thanksgiving, which I was forced to celebrate, I mean enjoyed) in the morning I went to see the Department of External Health here in Malaga (the place where you can get needles full of tropical viruses) and received three inoculations, most importantly the one for yellow fever, I’ve been ill ever since. Actually, to be perfectly honest, of the last 36 hours, more than 24 of them have been spent in bed.

The doctor said side effects like this could last up to four or five days, meaning I should be coming up on the end of it. Let’s hope so.