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[learnedax]

Most of the conditions here pose no particular problem for me, but I do wish I could sleep for more than an hour at a time. The last several nights have featured a serious pea soup fog that leaves condensation on everything inside and outside our tent, so every couple of minutes a little shower will rain down on us, and at least once an hour I'll snap wide awake from a drop between the eyes. Pax seems to get nearly a full night's sleep, but Y sleeps if anything less than I. Just one more night.

There are so many people here who've been here for 7-8 weeks, our five days seems like a blink. Even so it feels like it's passed awfully fast. I do want to get back to Boston, but I wish I could stay another week or two.

Oh, well. Enough blogging. Every minute here matters.

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[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

Suspend a towel over your head. It will catch most of the drips and allow you to sleep longer.

Most modern tents have small loops sewn near the roof for this sort of purpose.

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd been thinking about doing something like that, but since all the attachment points were in the center, I wasn't sure how we were going to rig them up. Then I realized that pax_industria had brought a pile of climbing equipment, so we rigged something up with webbing and carabiners. Still no edge attachments, but we used the window zippers to clip through. It worked pretty well, since I think I was only woken by a splash of water once when I was oriented wrong (we didn't get total overhead coverage).