Daily Report: Unday

Today was a missed day. I woke up feeling awful. I didn't drink that much last night, but I suspect that the standard mistake of mixing too many kinds of drinks (Drambuie, vodka tonics, and Heineken... equal samplings) is what did me in. Truthfully though, even that couldn't really explain my sorry state.

I was up at 9:00 a.m., and tried to do a little work, but quickly gave up and went back to bed, and slept until 5:00 in the evening.

Then, I had some grilled chicken, some orange juice freshly squeezed by Maid Go — 2 kilos of oranges cost $3... that's so cheap — and then lots and lots of water.

After eating and replenishing my fluids, I got a couple of hours of work done... however, I had to answer several entertaining calls from Stan: It seemed that an electrical transformer on the street outside his house exploded, scaring Mem and her friends outside half to death. Then, he had to call to tell me about the antics of the electrical company fellows who came, shut off the electricity in the entire neighborhood, and then proceeded to create an even bigger explosion that lit up the darkened neighborhood like Baghdad on a bad day. (I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Thai people should not be trusted with electricity under any circumstances. Even the professionals are grade-A twits.)

I see that the baht is still weakening against the dollar, and is now between 34.3 and 34.6, depending on your source of exchange rate information. It's still only a minor shift from it's low of 33.4 baht to the dollar, but it's heartening: Just that little shift is an extra 5,000 baht in my pocket every month.