September

The computer broke. Dead hard disk. I was horrified as I cannot survive without the machine. I got to go out and pick up a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.6 17″ and it is incredible! The only nag is the Japanese keyboard which has all the keys in the wrong places. I asked my students and found out that all the Japanese keys are useless as no-one even uses them … but it’s from and old old old J typewriter system that only very old folks use. My goodness Apple … why do you persist in this then? Is is lack of current cultural understanding???

August

Well this month we went on vacation to Thailand. We had planned to do all sorts of things and go all sorts of places but got really lazy and stayed in Bangkok the whole few weeks. Incredible shopping and massage and food. Really astoundingly nice.

July24-27 BKK Tarntawan

We had a great time in the original city of angels. Beautiful/squalid, scenic/horrid, graceful/crass. Not the first time, nor will it be the last, to be amazed and appalled. Delightful.