More Birthdays

First of all, Happy Birthday to Hugh and Jason (on the 17th). Hope you both have a good one.


I had some form of writer's block today that was really frustrating. I am trying to make several different proposals for the water project, each tailored to various categories of donors such as individuals and foundations and for some reason, I simply could not make what I was writing sound good. Eventually I just gave up for the day. We met with the editor of the local weekly paper today. He had contacted a guy who works at a local radio station and is a Twi specialist and so now we have an editor and general manager/supervisor for the newspaper. We are going to set up a meeting for next week to bring in everyone involved-- the people at the printing press, the editor and GM and another Twi specialist. But while we were meeting with the two men today, I couldn't help but feel the elephant in the room, although I might have been the only one. Money. We are going to need some to get this going. But I believe in this project, as it has a huge market and with the right people running it, it will be successful. I figure that even in the conservative, risk-averse business culture here, if you have a good idea, you can find money somewhere. We'll see.