Nairobi was pretty interesting. The conference boasted a whopping 16 attendees. But despite the very few people in attendance, I get the distinct sense that Nairobi is primed for some really decent training. After speaking with a few government representatives and with Evans, the conference sponsor I think I might be able to swing some decent, relatively high-tech training in Nairobi. They’re VERY interested in the idea of backtrack training, so I’ve broached the idea with Muts. We’ll see where that ends up. If this takes off, we might be able to support ourselves with fairly infrequent training gigs pretty close to home. I’ll keep you posted.

Today was fairly laid back. We had very few customers at The Keep. Jen opened up (because our day manager walked away from her job) and I followed with Declan around 10:00am. Breakfast consisted of spanish omelette, french toast and a Turkish coffee, my new staple. That looks really strange… my breakfast. A year and a half ago, breakfast was so different. Al the ingredients came from various places in the open-air market. Everything was prepared from scratch, and was extremely simple. Now, we’re eating like… an upgraded version of some former self. It’s surreal. Every time I think that The Keep is a curse, or we face some new struggle, I just have to focus on the fact that it was, and is a blessing in so many ways.

As for work, I upgraded iTunes on a Mac, installed Skype, OpenOffice and FoxIT on a PC, and worked on the intranet web server at The Keep. I needed a way to showcase the services we offer. It turns out we make really good money on “diversification” service like scanning, printing and downloading. Other big projects like nComputing installs and service contracts could really help us too, so everything is showcased on that landing page so people know about them.

I also cleaned up my laptop, which is running dangerously low on disk space and consolidated all my large downloads to put on the server at The Keep. We offer these local downloads to our customers to help soften the impact of our 10GB monthly download cap (the price we pay for cheaper but higher-speed 3G service).

Tomorrow is Friday, which is music night at The Keep. The means a late night and a really busy day. More later.