It was so horrible experience the day at 800 bytes/sec. I don't think I ever want that to happen to me again

Well after like 48 hours of no sleep I am here to tell the story of day one. It was generally a success for my part. The internet seemed to hold up accept for our lunch break from 2-3 and from 4-6 during a battery crisis, for which t-mobile could not help us.

Oh and the microphone mixup. We wanted a data card GPRS style ASAP but the shortest turn around on activation that they could promise us was 3-4day. I wish I had $1000, just to see what they would do for that.

I felt really weird today, partly because of the fact that i haven't selpt since thursday and partly because of the situation. I have been driving the route so long that I think people are beginning to take notice of me. i think they think I am some sort of cyborg cop. I can't blame them as i actually had a web cam wired to my head, a laptop displaying my location constantly on the internet, a big white van, and lots of microphones, and other technology.

I felt like such an outside peering in at a science experiment. It made me so uncomfortable. I loved the project at first because it gave mne a change to hold surveillance technology really close and then it freaked me out. I started feeling like I was on some weird cultural safari. Nothing can make me more uncomfortable than that. It is preceisely why I am done traveling to poor places. The feeling was akin to some feelings I had spending time in Morocco back in my early twenties.

(e:rzoo) did a fantastic job pulling it all together. The issues I was having were mostly with me and my feelings about me as the outsider. She is such a kind woman and I know her heart is good. I am excited to see what tomorrow brings.

Here we are live on the route at allen and north.

I can't believe after this work and science, we are crippled by an 800 byte per second, dead battery piece of crap cell phone. Why didn't we get the card!?! What a waste of my life.

It has to end, please god let it end