back home

where in the world is dana? I am back home in fort mill SC. I have an enlarged liver and my kidneys are failing. Maybe I am dying. Security outside the USA is very weak but not in JFK where my tool kit had an blade for my repair kit. I didn't know. Anyway kisumu security was non existent. I am a diabetic and had a drink and they took it away in Nairobi. just put in your pocket and you can keep it as many did. Cairo was funny as they checked your passport several times. In JFK u had to show ur passport to get of the plane. They detained about 10 people all dressed as Muslims. That is all i know.
Anyway a 12 hour flight is pure hell. I love traveling but shorter flights please. If no mote entries means I am dead oh well i have lived a wonderful life and have no regrets. I never checked the gold sorry.
take care u all

Wikileaks

I live in Kenya a land so corrupt it is hard to fathom the depth of it. Wiki leaks is a breath of fresh air. Embassy people in my experience are as corrupt as Kenya. Embassy people do not regard the country they are in as anything but trash. Even as an American I am treated with disdain. Anyway the government needs to be responsible for its actions and secrecy is a way to make your mistakes vanish and as we here call impunity. Kenya is trying to be reborn and Americas embassies make me sick as I want America to stand for freedom. So let Hillary go and get an ambassador who believes in Kenya. And treat Kenyans with respect.

gabriella

Dear gaby,
It was nice to receive your psychic reading. The fact is it was incorrect. From all that i an see your domain originates in Switzerland. Currently i am sick which u did not mention. Also i am in kisumu 180 miles from Nairobi.Also I am broke and the 49 dollars would feed my family for a week and i don't have $49.00 but $9.00 which has to last until my retirement check. But make it a big BUT I am also psychic and the stories I have are truly amazing. But i have no control over them. I wish I was John Edward as I believe in him. But since I have spent all my adult life with computers I can easily see how you produce your readings. Now many years ago I came up with the theory of everything. In other words everybody is right. All religions are correct all psychic are real. There are billions of parallel worlds and we humans can see and travel between worlds. The latest M theory predicts 11 dimensions. And in 11 dimensions I can produce anything. I like to joke about my education. About everything i learned in college is obsolete or just wrong. So does that make me uneducated? PSI phenomena is real yet we have not a clue as to how it happens. Three years ago I died as a matter of fact I was allowed to live a third time. I have struggled with that knowledge not being able to explain it. So who am I to cast a stone unless you are a charlotain. Then if you are shame on you and you will pay. But again I don't know. I use to read the Tarot and it was fun but never did i learn anything except that people want to believe. My first wife with past life regression had 5 lives. Interesting but there are other explanations. Humans are so complex it almost defies logic. So if you are real thank you if not then shame on you.

Kenya

Well I finally made it back to Kenya. Too my two wifes, whoops my one wife lost the second one. Obviously 22-23 year old women in Kenya are not very reliable (Everline, Rose, Gerald) so I am here on the shore of Lake Victoria (well a 10 minute walk). Where I go to the beach is the womens area. They wash clothes there or take a bath. The mens area is just down the beach. The other day saw 3 Hippos frolicking in the water and there roar is awesome. I have laid low and been following baseball and thinking a lot. The new owner of my house really abused me(my fault for letting him) but it took out all my energy and I am now starting to recover and the 24hour flight didn't help my ankles have swollen up because I was sitting so long on the plane. We were supposed to stop in Burundi but the plane lost oxygen(right). Never tell a passenger the truth he might want to leave the plane(ha ha). So I am looking into solving the mosquito problem. I got one idea a mosquito masher. Hand held. Maybe I'll ask for a grant from Bill Gates(that would be absolutely ironic). But this time is precious no crying babies(i work at night) we have baldy who can imitate a wild animal when he cries and then Venessa who cries when u point out she is not grown up. But they have there moments and is the only reason they r still alive. Not that I would ever harm them for goodness sake no but I think the mothers at times contemplate it. I always have the option of leaving. If it wasn't for the internet I probably would as all my dreams of how the family would be were dashed when second wife went to live with her girl friends for a week. But first wife Cecelia has been absolutely wonderful. The maid is not too great but again what can u expect from a 13 year old. It gives Cecilia some relief albeit not much. She can wash the floors but cooking is less than perfect. And she likes the kids but sits in front of the tv half the day watching the same women sing native songs. So we will look for a new maid. My old maid who was with Rose was a hard worker but Rose was too stupid to appreciate her. But maid are a tricky commodity if they are cute then they have a boy friend who will come in while you are away and steal everything. The only solution I have found is treat them like a co wife. Otherwise you are bound for catastrophe. It is obviously a different society here where women are so much like children that it is hard to give them much respect. As lying stealing and cheating are almost universal with Kenya women. As most children who have yet developed a morality. I probably have lost $50,000 learning this lesson. Obviously I am a slow learner. But the adventures were great and the book will pay me back with interest. Or so I hope. I have encountered a curious phase where I have no projects and it bothers me but hopefully after recovering from Mike(house owner) abuse. We are looking for another house in Kisumu with an outside chance of Nanyuki or Nakuru. But with my safaricom modem I can have internet wherever. Even in the middle of lake Victoria. Just finished reading a tale of two cities and am I glad I live here and now. So I have one wife to back me up so this phase of my goals is now completed. I still have the proto board with me. I was convinced it wasn't gold because of the weight but after consideration it still maybe but of a lower karat than 24. The minister of the church is my only follower on this blog. The other thing is after 34 years the pins on the board are as new where brass would have tarnished by now. If the pins are 12kt gold then the board is probably worth $16,000. I love the mystery of it all. I am not in the forex market here as the internet is not robust enough, need a desk top for that. So here I am as broke as a church mouse eating spinach and ugali. We have meat about once a week. And this weeks meat is somewhere in the house awaiting its demise(chicken). I told Cecelia not to touch me after she kills it because the blood lust may overcome her and she will strangle me. You westerners live such a protected life. Having others kill for you. If u want to criticize our society lookup drawn and quartered and it gives u some perspective. Well that is where I am at the moment take care Jambo Sana.

My sons first home

It makes u feel ur age when ur son moves into his first new home. I say home as it is a trailer in Twin Lakes along with about a 1000 other people. 254 homes. Actually we refer to it as twin ponds. Or the Twin Pond de Rosa. When I sold my house i got the divorce 1/3, I have spent my 1/3 and my son receives his inheritance of 1/3. With the money he has bought a 3 bedroom trailer with one bath. THe rent of the land is expensive over $300 but I am storing my things so I am giving him $50.00 a month. I will be leaving my storage area which cost $125.00 a month. Anyway it is most emotional now I visit my sons home. He has lived here over 21 years and now he and his girl are having there own place while I head back to Africa.

Dead Cat

I must relay to u a bit of humor. I broke my back and ribs in a fall July 19th 2006. After 5 weeks in intensive care and the hospital I went to therapy in another hospital. I kept smelling something like a dead cat. Well they immediately sent for the psychatrist. After a nice chat I was declared sane. But the smell persisted. In the hospital I had a huge bedsore on my butt which was two inches deep. After many weeks at home I was sent to a surgeon. Who cleaned the wound out and put some strong ointment in the wound. AS i related to the surgeon what had happened he laughed and laughed. The bed sore was eating my flesh in my butt and the smell was the dead skin. So even in the hospital they could not figure it out. But because of this I met the chaplin a wonderful lady who let me cry with her. It was at least 6 months before I could stop crying. Every little thing made me cry. Walking side by side with death really tires u out.
Mr.Dana Lee Kimball

superman

I heard the other day a radio program from NPR radio about what kind of superpower they would like.One woman wanted to be invisible and steal cashmere sweaters. Am I so out of touch that this American society is so fragile that there is no depth to people. Anyway I thought about it and in five minutes came up with the power i would have. Very very simple. To know the truth. In every situation to know what is real. How much time we waste on false beliefs. Does she love me? Is that offer really valid. I would hire myself out to presidents. Maybe the UN. Just think of the wars to be stopped the women to be vanished from your life. Are u after money? I can go on for a long time with questions. How effective I would have been in my life if I would have known the truth about every relationship. Every employer were his promises real. Maybe I seem to naive as I believe everyone. I don't need to lie. The things I have done can't be made better by lying about it. I test myself every day as to whether i know the truth. Nothing seems more important. I am a programmer and to be successful u have to be truthful. You have to root out every misconception until finally the truth is the program. I am the most successful programmer I have ever known. I have know hundreds from the top companies of the world. And if I find a programmer better than me I will sit at his feet and learn everything I can from him. And along the way I have absorbed so much from others. Have I ever know any good women programmers? In reality no because they are to emotional. I knew one she was pretty good but one day my account was suspended as she took it upon herself to talk to my boss that i was using special access. The truth was it was a weekend and I had to finish something and i got special access to do it. So even though she was good she couldn't do it the right way. There are a lot of deceitful programmers. And I have suffered from them. Back to the beginning if only I had known the truth. I don't know everything but I want to know everything as the years have passed I find my goals becoming clearer everyday. I love helping people I am third generation helper. And I hate liars. I can stand a stupid person if he does not lie. But even the smartest man in the world has no value if he is a liar. Am I alone in this world? Is this all a dream? I have worked 45 years as a programmer. Yet I have not had one comment from my blog. Why?
Surely it does not matter. But it would be nice to solve a few problems with my fellow men. Here in USA it is all about getting more money. In the third world it is about getting enough money to eat. A woman selling her body to feed her children. But the reality is the world has changed. The disparities will eventually go away. Why because of the internet. And in the future I will not be alone as other travelers will wander into Africa and find the loveliest creatures on earth waiting there for you. I am the luckiest man on earth because I enjoy what I have.
Well that is my essay on super powers any one care to pick up the baton and answer here.

Going Home

I bought my ticket home.jfk to bru, bru eeb, eeb nbo,nbo kis. Two new countries Belgium and Uganda. I miss my family.
Here some one stole $5,000 and a bracelet worth over $1,000. So the reverse mortgage fell away. So going home i miss my wives and babies so much. I am working to get rid of 75 tv's and it is very dangerous. The floor is collapsing the roof is caving in and there is poison ivy. Everyday i come away bleeding, sweating and swearing. But
I struggle on. And in
Kenya r my wives and children waiting.

Mathematicians view point

Most people have emotional attachments to ideas. At a certain point they feel any criticism of your theory is a criticism of you. But a theory is just a theory whose only purpose is to explain things and project into the future. Theories are born and die with amazing frequency from the Flat Earth to Newtons theories, Einstein, String theory and on and on. Each new theory explaining facts which contradict the old theory. This is called efficacy. In other words how effective is the theory. Newtons theory may work 99.99% of the time but when you get close to a large body like the sun it doesn't work and so we up the theory ladder to Einsteins theory of Relativity and then ... So ease of of the self blame and enjoy. Help build the next theory. I know everyone wants to ask if there is a GOD. To me it doesn't matter. I will live my life by those rules I feel are correct and GOD or no GOD I will still live the same. And nobody knows GOD so they make up all sorts of crap and say GOD thinks this and that. Like you really know. So just be you.

Angels

What are angels? Angels are beings from a higher dimension who on occasion step in and help us. But they are very sticky about one thing. If you don't try they will not help you. When you are about to collapse and take your final step they will be there helping you to get up and try again. There help is limited just enough to keep you going. And how do I know this? From personal experience. I observed these Angels. They always smile and ask if they can help you. They will not do for you what you are supposed to do but just help a little to keep you going. And some times you may be someone else's angel you never know. We now believe there are 11 dimensions. Try and wrap your mind around that. Everything is possible. Parallel worlds! Time travel! Multiple lives are trivial when you factor in 11 dimensions. Anyway just some thoughts from Dana Quijote world traveler and explorer.

Monroe Doctrine

Today as I was dumping my garbage I had a nice talk with one of the attendants there. I was taking about my history and the we talked about politics and he complained about Obama and i said I had a solution for immigration. In Mexico the death count is around 23,000 people. And many thousands in the USA. The government of Mexico is about to collapse. In Iraq over 100,000 civilians have died and we intervened there. In the interest of world peace the US should send troops to Mexico to stabilize the country invoking the Monroe Doctrine. Then Mexico will be declared a US territory and its citizens given the right to become the 51st state. So all those illegal Mexicans are now US citizens. So now where is the immigration problem. 57% of illegal immigrants are Mexican and if given the opportunity most would return home. So two new senators.Maybe we make 3 states i don't know. My x wife was from Peru and I lived with her 23 years.They are good people and have added to our culture giving new vitality which has been the US history since its beginning. Eventually in the next 100 years all of north america will become the true United States of America. Why should innocent people die? Maybe someday the style of Theodore Roosevelt will return. Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Wayne Dyers Affirmation in Excuses be gone

I have the ability to accomplish any task i set my mind to do with ease and comfort.
Being myself involves no risk.It is my ultimate truth and i live fearlessly.
I have infinite patients when it comes to fullfiling my destiny.
I'd rather be loathed for who i am rather than loved for who i am not
I am connected to an unlimited source of abundance
The right circumstances and the right pepole are already here and will show up on time.
I am open and willing to attract all i desire begining here and now.
I have access to unlimited assistance. My strength comes from my connection to my source.
I am the creation of the devine mind, all is perfect.I am a genius.
I am an infinite being. The age of my body has no bearing on what i do or who i am.
I live my life according to divine rules.
I think about what i can do now by thinking small I accomplish great things.
I feel passionately about my life and this passion fills my life with excitment and energy
I live in the present moment being grateful for all my lifes experiences
As I walk in the light of my destiny all elses falls away
I can accomplish anything because I am not alone and the angels are there when I need them
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wayne+dyer+excuses+begone&aq=0

Gold bug update

Well I have had comments on this from my sister. So i'll update u here.
The board in question has 2.7 cubic inches of material.
If it is brass - worthless
If it is silver about $200.00
And if it is solid gold $32,000
This board was made in 1976 to prototype circuits.
It has approximatively 2,800 pins each 1" in length and 1/32 inch on a side.
Now the only indication I have it might be gold is the weight.
Now if the pins are brass the pins will weigh about .8lbs
If the pins are silver the pins will weigh about 1 lb
And if the pins are gold then the board should weigh at least 2 lbs
The board seems to weigh more than 1 lb giving idea to pursue further
The other thing is if the pins are gold plated. At 20 microns we have a value of $83.00
at 40 microns we have a value of $166.00
After 34 years the pins are bright and shinny. Another point for gold.
So we still have suspense.
My guess now it is brass and worthless.
I have other boards from the same date 1976 where the whole board uses gold.
Now days just the fingers are gold.
So the mystery still remains.
Keep tuned as we will next weigh the board.

letter to my forex providor

Dear cms,
I would like to remind u that the outages happened before. So ur
explanation seems to me dubious. I am probably ur smallest and busiest
customer having logged over 3,400 transactions in the last 2 months.
Ur outage hurt me a lot. How many times I tried to logon.
Suggestion one
1. Have another site which shows the status. Your regular cms web site
was down also.
And when u r up state that so I don't spend hours trying to logon.
Or even better email me when u come up.
2. Obviously have a backup plan.(But have this plan evaluated by a
third party like me)
3. I am in the bonus plan but have no way of knowing when my bonuses
should arrive so I have a separate xcel spread sheet to keep track of
things
4. Give everyone a small bonus. And forget trying to sort out all of
the if and whys. Then everyone is happy.
With the bonus sign a waiver of future claims .
I would like to come there and straiten u out but I am busy being an
old man with 46 years of computer experience.
The good side of this is to be disciplined and never ever assume ur
provider will be there.
In my heart I sympathies with you having been on the front lines with
screaming executives and heads rolling down the aisles. The good old
days. Try running a business in a third world country where
electricity is like a yoyo. I had an internet cafe in Kisumu Kenya.
Can I help u? The answer is yes but I am not mainstream and I am
always thinking outside the box and my history of saving companies
monies is legendary also my attitude is crusty and stupid people
really get on my nerves.
There are a lot of good people out there who can help you but in this
case you need perspective. Which I can give you. I have worked for the
worlds largest companies and the government. I am apolitical I don't
want ur job all I want is my account to work day in and day out so I
can lose my money in peace and every night cry myself to sleep.
An interesting question occurs to me.
Could I help you. Obviously I think so. Would i bet my life on it. The
answer is yes.
Sorry to be so verbose but this gives me one small chance to talk to someone.
In 1976 I was a consultant to NCR corp. I was software support for a
new terminal(predecessor to the modern pc) and I got the news my boss
had been killed in an auto accident. My new boss comes to me and says.
What do u want? If u want me to move the building I will move it. Well
when the project ended I saved NCR over $250,000 in equipment on 50
machines and was called the best engineer they ever had. I am not an
engineer but was trained as a mathematician. They allowed me to do as
I wished for one year afterward and in that time I developed a
standalone assembler for the 8080. Which changed the course of NCR.
And if I was an avarice person I would be siting in Bill Gates chair.
But I love challenges, doing what others can not do. In a month or so
I will be returning to Kenya to change that country. So give me a
plane ticket to NYC and expenses and I'll give u a report.
But if I am right u are tied up by corporate politics and this
disaster will kill ur company. And I will have to find a new company
to loose my money too.
The bonus program has been great and I hope to finish my 5000 trades.
But I may run out of money but the thrill of playing the game far
exceeds the loss of money.
I hope you don't mind I am going to put this letter on my blog.
I have worked at over 50 different companies from IBM to a small shop
where they kept beer in the fridge.
So anyway please fix things so I can be happy.
Here is my hand to you.
I wish only the best for you and quickly get an eraser as the
handwriting on the wall is upsetting.
--
Jambo Sana
Dana Lee Kimball Barnes
1-803-627-3138
1-704-249-3146
http://danaquijote.blogspot.com/

www.mrdana.com
hi@mrdana.com

gold bug

Nothing excites the soul like finding gold. The mind runs wild with the calculation of ounces of gold at about $1200 an ounce. I am cleaning up my garage(was) sold it. But I was sweating as the final clean up and deadline are merging. I am 67 years old and the wounds are mounting up.
1. Cut on left hand 2inches
2. Burn on left arm 2 inches
3. puncture knuckle right hand.
4. Diabetic feet problem
5. Chest pain
and today i almost passed out head swimming weak knees just on the verge.
Then there in the trash after 16 boxes full there lies a prototype board we used in developing NCR's micro processor system. After 34 years the pins gleamed there golden luster. And heavy the board must weigh about 2 lbs.
So instead of almost dying my heart leaps with joy. This is real gold. Now always after the initial excitement reality sets in. Its gold plate, the gold plate is microscopic, the price u can get is a fraction as people are ready to steal it from you. I bought some gold when in Ecuador at least 18k gold. You can't find 14k gold in south america at least at that time. I take it to a refiner in Philadelphia. Ur are suppose to get an assay(none) and I was paid for 14k gold. These were small bars of gold too. Not some plated gold. So where did all that money go. My assumption is the refiner thought this is from South America so he probably is doing something illegal and so short changed me. An interesting side to this is the metal detectors at least at that time don't detect gold. In the consulate in Guayaquil they detected it with a hand scanner. I had painted it with nail polish so it didn't look like gold. I had always remembered a fellow worker in Shemya Alaska saying he had a gold pendant he wore it in case he lost everything. So I had a bar of Gold, wife and daughter also. In case someone stole everything we could survive.
Anyway experience tells me that Gold dealers may be thieves also.
So as I stand there sweating with shovel in hand I make a promise. I will give 10% of the money i receive to some one. That is if less than $1000.00 If the value is between $1,000 and $2,000 then the $100.00 plus 15% of that over $1,000 then Over $2,000 to $5,000 20% and anything over $5,000 25%
For example if this board had 10 troy ounces of Gold it would be worth $12,000
1. $100 $1,000
2. $150.00 $1,000-$2000
3. $600.00 $2000-$5000
4. $1,750 $5,000-$12,000
total $2,600 to help www.saintgabriel.info
Why am I putting that here?
Because when money comes our way we forget our promises. But u dear reader will pull my ear and say look here it is ur promise.
Its probably worth $300. But on the other hand, just maybe...
Anyway if u want to help a poor African church go to www.saintgabriel.info
They believe in GOD and they believe he will give them a new church.
Matthew 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
So let us see what happens.
To a person they believe GOD sent me to them.
The Muzungo
And there faith is as large as a Mountain not just a seed. So stand back because something has to happen.There r tears on my cheeks and I am crying. Because 4 years ago July 19th 2006 I fell through the roof onto that very spot where I found the computer board and lay there dying. For nine hours i lay there with pain u could not believe, peeing my pants because I could do nothing else, wanting to live but knowing with each breath the life and blood was flowing out of me. And I thank my son who found me and let me live. I owe my life to him.
And the day I went to this church the most brilliant beautiful rainbow stretching from horizon to horizon in the direction of the path to the church.

At this point in time we are sharing the suspense.
I do not know what will happen in Africa but taking the words of Jesus Christ and the faith of these people I wonder.

Jambo Sana

Saint gabriels

While in Kenya I found a church which opened there arms to me and to a person they believe GOD sent me. Curious how GOD could use me but then he/she is GOD so I guess I can't be surprised. Well to keep in the same vein GOD has sent me to u. These people need a new church. I know there are millions of starving people in the world and u could give every cent u make and it really will not change anything. But if u give people hope.Hope is like a match set to the right fuel and the world can change. I am not saying this will change the world but on the other hand I am not saying it won't. Jesus said if u have a little faith,well these people have more than a little they have huge faith that this Muzungo will tell the world of there need. Now the burden is on u. Can u help these people build a new church. Now a church you might think will cost a lot but they want $24,000 to build a new one. But think of this, you will be helping people with faith to build a monument to GOD. And who knows what might come of this. Maybe a child attending this church may become a great person because he has seen faith in action. When u strike a match u never know what will happen. And also u will have a home where when u come visit this church the number of tears of joy can't be counted. Because u will be in the center of the will of GOD. And I promise u, swearing on my mothers grave, that every cent will go to them. And on the web site I will record ur gift and all may see the power of GOD. the web site is www.saintgabriel.info I will be maintaining this site. You can send money to me at paypal hi@mrdana.com Why send to me,because I want to see and record what will happen. All the Glory will go to GOD I assure u. Jambo Sana

Phoenix

Life is strange so much so that it is like an ocean with waves when we are on top of the wave we see the horizon and everything around us in the trough we are surrounded by walls of water but to get where we want to go we have to traverse those waves.

Fifty year goal
About 10 years ago i decided that i needed a goal so vast that it would need every resource i could find to achieve.
And so i dedicated my life to sending a probe to Alpha Centauri. Some three years ago
i decided i needed a wife . Because no man is an island and i saw that without a good wife to be there to bind my wounds after the battles to be fought i would not succede. After my visit to hell i found a sympathetic resonance with young black women. And if i were to die then in the arms of a black woman it would be fine. i have found many lovely ladies in Kenya and i wish each and everyone well.

favorite quote

To be or not to be
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
This has always been my favorite quote

The tallest tree

In Kisumu you take a matatu(mini bus) for 30 minutes and then you get out and search for the tallest tree. You walk through the pasture filled with tethered sheep. Then you walk by the corn field which are at least 8 feet high, Past the small hut where 7 people live mother, father and 5 children. And in another 5 minutes you arrive at the compound. I stayed at the compound for 3 weeks. There are 3 cows, 1 goat and 4 sheep. No electricity but a battery operated tv where at 8pm we all watch love spell. After the program TV off and we all go to bed to wait for the rooster crowing at 4 am. It gets light at around 6am so I lay in bed 2 hours waiting for enough light to crawl out of bed My wife heats the water and I go to the little shed made out of tin roofing and bath myself. After I am done my wife has breakfast made 2 eggs, toast and tea. Being a westerner I am not used to the bathroom and that bothers me the most trying to manage this.
During the day the flies gather round the muzungo(white man) to feast. African are not bothered by flies and are entertained by my unusual ability to kill them. About every hour the young hen come in and check the floor for flies, the ants carry the flies off to feast upon. Later on my second wife takes me to the road and again we board another matatu to go to the internet where I look at my email and look up answers to the days questions. Then we go to the market and buy bananas, rice, onions eggs and maybe a cabbage or carrots. Then back to the matatu which is always filled and I may sit on half a seat and watch my fingers and toes as once they closed my hand in the door. Now we stop and look for the tallest tree and walk home. For three weeks this was my routine. This place is almost perfect except for he mosquitoes who come out at nightfall. The Africans are bothered by the mosquitoes and many a sharp slaps are heard as they try to kill them but the only safety lies under the nets. Almost everyone has malaria. My co-wifes little boy had it and was taken to the hospital. They though it was a cold but his pitiful cries told me it was more. And I was right. Since we are in my wives mothers house all signs of affection are prohibited. The father died many years before and at that moment time stopped and the mother maintains everything but no advancement. My joke is that a few miles away is the garden of eden. It is perfect growing weather hot sun in the day and then about 4pm it gets dark and we receive the rain. We save the rain water and we drink this and wash the clothes and me in this. The rain water is so soft you can hardly rinse yourself. We have a bore hole(well) but the water has very many minerals in it.
The only real problem is that people have been known to die of boredom and if all the cell phones were turned off I am sure this would happen. I visited grandma who lives alone as her co wife and sister died last month. Grandfather who is now dead long time married 3 sisters and grandma is now all alone. Somewhere in her late eighties she commented that I looked like 92 and I was upset until I realized the muzungo needed to be older than her. She gave me a rooster, so kind and we went back home and the pesky rooster we had was given away to feed the son who came that day. I hate eating chickens I know personally. But my first wife is fine as she wrings there necks and boils them to remove the feathers and then cooks then. The chickens here in Kenya are so small u can't believe it.

appearance

To many people out there being smart and attractive is a way of life and I must say I do enjoy watching them strut and show of. But the wrapper doesn't make the food taste better and many times that sexy lady inside is filled with worms and all sorts of nasty things. But for me I learned a lesson early in life and that is not to be noticed. When u see me u don't see an advanced it man who has seen more than a hundred other it men and a million other people. Bill Gates, the young kid, is recognized everywhere but me I walk among you and you don't know what I have done, or seen or experienced. And that is fine. I have never signed an autograph or been recognized for some wonderful thing I have done. Because as I said early on I found if u were special or at least thought you were you became a target. And targets often get hit by arrows and they hurt. So instead of people expecting things from me they look down on me. And I chuckle and say to myself if only you new what I know you would run screaming into the night. And so I go where brave men fear to go hanging over the edge hanging on with one hand. To say that this life is lonely is a vast understatement. After struggling up the highest hill u find yourself alone. No one to share that sweet taste of victory as you become better at what you do than anyone else. I have never had a role model to follow, I have never been encouraged by a mentor no the thing I have is persistence. No matter what the odds or the challenge I struggle forward falling down for sure but always getting up and struggling on and in the end tattered and torn I reach my destination. Maybe the price was to high as many times that is so true but somewhere buried inside me is a force which never gives up, maybe rests now and then but never gives up.
So when the first rockets burst through the sky in Kenya I will know I was there 30 years before it happened.
I am a pioneer, filled with wanderlust always searching for the new, the future. That is why my goal is Alpha Centauri. That is where humanity will go next. And I am finding the way one slow step at a time. Nobody reads my blogs except ex wives. But I sure could use some help. But because there is no help is no reason to stop. There is no reason to stop until death overtakes me. I drink from the bowl of life fully and thirst for more. When I lay dying in the hospital i did not quit when I was drowning I did not quit and to that man who jumped in and saved me I thank u a million times and I know not your name. Such a sadness that the man who saved my life has no name in my memory. I often do things I don't want to do because i must do it. As in the Star Wars movie, "("The Force is strong with this one.") that defines me. Until we face death face to face we know not who we are. I have faced death maybe a half dozen times. Where you don't know if you will be alive 15 seconds from now. Where time slows down and the fellow inside takes control.
Anyway dear reader(Georg Groddeck) I leave you here to ponder these things and if ever you should wish to join me on the Glory Road I can be reached at bydan@gmail.com As ever I remain. Dana Lee Jambo Sana

Longing for home(Kenya)

As I look into the sky here in Fort Mill, I can always see a plane in the sky and a few stars here and there. But in Kenya no planes and maybe once a week a plane will stray overhead. But oh my the stars. The stars in Kenya take your breath away as you see ten time more stars. Being a diabetic I have to go outside to pee a lot and in Kenya every time I would look up it would take my breath away. Orion is there and the big dipper but there the southern cross shines brightly. So I miss homes my wives and my children. At 67 I still enjoy children. I love to play with them watch them. In favor of my 1 year old son I have made a poem for him.
"Baldy the destroyer. Conquer of Kenyan women. Hero of the battle of Ahero. Surviver of the masquer of Kisumu. Defender of Nairobi. May he live long and prosper and may his children also be destroyers." Everyone is so serious I thought a silly ode to the destroyer would make things better. As I watched my son he could get into more things than u could believe. Annoying yes but intelligent unbelievably so. As my relationship with my jr wife became more secure I began to take on the role of discipling the boy. One day he was bothering the chickens home under a huge basket. They taught me a Luo phrase like stop or I'll beat u. Well I said that once and seriously intoned he was to stop and slapped him on the butt. Well to test this out he returned again and this time I picked him up repeated the phrase and seriously spanked his butt. From that point on the chickens were once again secure and baldy looked at me in a different way. Although he is now mine it is a serious breach to discipline your spouses child but we survived and the jr wife has accepted sharing the role of discipline. When I return I will take some diapers with me. The children pee and defecate at will there. And baldy the destroyer sometimes is pretty wiffy. So I miss Kenya and the farm and the children and the wives. But I'll never miss the outhouse with the bird who lives inside the hole and the bat who buzzes u now and then. And the flies.And of course the mosquitoes. Here u hear there high pitch wine there no whine just ouch. And eating by the light of the oil lantern. And it is cool there only reaching the low 80ties where here this week it reached a hundred and four. I am excited about teaching the maid English and she teaching me Luo. Life so different there here it is like prison with Home owner associations and police at the door if u discipline ur wife. Most wives there are no more than children and sometimes u have to remind them they are adults and bad behavior has consequences. I am sure any feminist reading this are ready to lynch me. I have never hurt a woman but I have redden a few asses. And so my heart belongs in Kenya, where I don't drive or cook or clean dishes. A few weeks ago as I got my old van working I was on a test drive and this guy was stopped driving on the wrong side of the road. And to my chagrin it was me on the wrong side of the highway but properly driving as if I were in Kenya. So after the clean up and moving x wife and son into new house I will be bruising my butt as I return to Kenya.

Around the world

Recently I was in the embassy in Nairobi Kenya. I was so proud of myself finally having completed my first trip around the world and so I was talking with the woman who supplies condoms to the world. And I said I traveled around the world and she asked how many times. Pop goes the bubble. Anyway this trip to Kenya was full of adventure. At first there was Rose, poor girl having been begging on the streets of Nairobi for food, well she found the big guy great feasting and after $20,000 I was just bones. So I then started out with the twins, I love twins, to see one person finish the others sentence. Well after 3 cows 2 goats and brown envelops and a thousand lies I walked out the door to never return. I had a beautiful computer high speed internet and was prisoner inside the house. So after receiving death threats, real or imagined I don't know I took off to Nairobi in a jet plane with my two new accomplices. I love to see people take there first plane ride. Anyway the trip from Kisumu to Nairobi one half hour, the trip from Nairobi airport to downtown an hour and a half. The trip to the Kisumu airport was made a speeds unbelievable and any movie crew would have died to film it. And after arriving the car rose in a billow of steam and we rushed inside to check in as we were very late. The twins were fascinating as they took turns listening and voicing fears that Rose was just about to kill them. Well since they were so nervous I said lets go to Nanyuki, a small town at the base of Mount Kenya. After 5 hours and $125.00 in taxi fare we arrived. We looked for a cheap hotel all of which were not acceptable and we arrived at the sportsman club. Very nice an impossibly expensive by Kenyan standards at $120, the rooms(suite) were very nice but the food very bad. I have no clothes so we head down to the newly opened Nakumart to get me another pair of shorts and shirt. We spent a pleasant day there I had bought each of the girls a new cell phone and one camera. On the trip I brought one cell phone and bout 6 others. Still afraid for there lives we head across country to Nakuru. The road almost disappeared and we were practically traveling through pasture. I rode up from but the twins were packed in back like sardines. Finally after traversing beautiful rural Kenya we arrived at Nyahururu for a brief stop. I am sure the wild west was like this. The Matatus have what they call stations and as many as a hundred will be stopped there waiting for the trip to there destination. Finally we turned a corner a below us was the vast valley where Nakuru is. I can truly say Africa is most beautiful and the poverty we hear about does not show. It is there but the majority are not poor but not rich either but as in all places in the world there are the rich in there Humvee and obviousness to life. Well the twins are off to Kisumu and they leave me alone at the Pilot Hotel. In the hotel was one of the last discos on earth and I enjoyed myself thoroughly and drank apple bear with my two companions. After a lot of beer we retired to my room just the two of us and we had a pleasant night in each others arms. I was prepared for a lonely night alone my first in 3 months but fate had provided me with a companion and I was so grateful. In my whole time in Kenya I never slept alone. My maid when I was with Rose gave me my bath and every once in a while she stole a Kiss. Sorry there was two nighta I slept alone that was when I got married Luo style(go figure). Anyway back to Nakuru I took a Taxi from Nakuru to Kisumu in the morning and went straight to my next wife Zainabu a hair stylist. We set up house together and I had a great time until I learned she had a husband in town. SO once again I take of with my small carry on bag and head to my new wife. Since she may be in danger I will not mention her name. But she takes me to her home area where I spend the next 3 weeks relieving my childhood ie no electricity or running water. Anyway I ask if I could have a co wife and she agrees as it is common practice there in her clan. Each clan has there own rules and when they don't want to do something they will on the spot make up a rule. So instead of cows this time I give money to bring electricity to the house. Now let me explain Kenyan women are kind and gracious to a fault but the truth is always a country away. They lie with creative abandon. I think of them as small children trying to please u by making up stories. They are all different but at the core they are African women yet to be introduced into the world as full citizens. They are trying but I remember the 2 year old cleaning the stool with her underpants. They are trained to serve. And they create there own little society in the kitchens so poor u want to cry. But they are sisters and they support each other in there happy misery because they know not what other women of the world enjoy. I love African women with them I feel loved and treasured and anyone of them would run away with me at a moments notice. Because to be the wife of a white man is a status above all the rest. Now don't get me wrong just because the color of my skin is white makes me no better than anyone else but you can't convince 80% of African women this, so I just relax and enjoy my good fortune.
And so sleeping between my two wives in the Nairobi hotel I smile and exclaim wow this is truly amazing.