(Africa trip) baggage issues

Believe it or not, for a 2.5 week trip to Africa, my traveling companions and myself were each restricted to only 33 pound of luggage TOTAL, including carryon baggage and camera equipment. This was because of weight limits on some of the charger flights we will be taking. Anyway, they let us up our allowance to 42 pounds when one traveler in our group backed out of the trip and when I weighed my luggage yesterday, I squeeked by with 40 pounds. So, even though I made the weight, I'm going to try to thin my stuff out a little. One way to do that would be to ditch my laptop, but I don't want to do that unless I have to. For one thing, I'd love to be able to keep up with this blog :-)