Solar eclipse – huh?

I was up on the roof by 5:30 am ready to take in the solar eclipse but somehow I seem to have missed it. Of course, the clouds were thick and pretty much obscured the sun for much of the time, but even when you could see the sun there didn’t seem to be any eclipsing going on. According to news reports, though, this was the eclipse of the century. What do I know?

Looking east towards the eclipse and clouds.

I think I should have taken the eclipse as an omen. Ruchi was in meetings all morning so we didn’t do any document collecting, but I was able to spend the time fruitfully anyway. I set up some of the metadata for the various documents that we will be loading into the system. I’m becoming more familiar with the software and catching onto its capabilities. I’m sure Ruchi will pick this up quickly. I was also able to resolve my indexing problem – we need to get the IT consultant, Arbinda, to assign us a static IP address. Once I configured the indexing server with the IP address of the machine and the software port number properly, indexing was back in business. But I did also find out that the manuals I downloaded are images saved to pdf so the content won’t get indexed unless it is run through an OCR utility. I believe that is a purchased add-on. C’est la vie. I don’t think that will be an issue here though. Hopefully the pdf’s they have will be the original and not a scan.

I went back to CECI place for lunch and then on returning to CMF ran into Anne so invited her for supper. Ruchi was still at a meeting (or at another one) so there wasn’t a lot I could do. When the power went off and looked like it was going to stay off for a while, I headed back home to bed. The heat and mugginess seems to wipe me right out.

Cooked up my rice and beans dinner (with a few adaptations) in a lovely rice cooker. Anne showed up with a couple of mangoes which added the piece de resistance to the rice dish. She has done a lot of traveling and working in this part of the world – Japan and India as well as Nepal. She has probably spent most of that time here so is full of good advice on places to see.

Ended the night by walking her back to her place. I hadn’t gone up the road in that direction. We walked by the Prime Minister’s house, the Chief Justice’s house and a couple of American diplomatic homes. Quite an impressive neighbourhood she lives in.