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Um, a post magically disappeared…
…After I was transferred to a “new and more powerful server” by webhost. I guess it is powerful enough to make a post disappear. Did you hear me? WILL THIS POST REMAIN? NEW! MORE POWERFUL!!
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Until Game of Thrones starts again…
…House of Cards Season 2 and True Detective are the best recent shows on television. Fact.
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Difficult decision
@English for Tourism training course at Nadoon Prachason school. — Posted from WordPress for Android —
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In a taxi
On our way to pick up our car in Khon Kaen, then to Ayutthaya. Note: This post was uploaded 10 days late because of friggin webhost. — Posted from WordPress for Android —
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beeeeeeatz
Dammit, my hosting provider is still fropping (friggin’ dropping) the ball. This site is going up and down and up and ERROR ESTABLISHING DATABASE CONNECTION and up and down and up and PERMISSION DENIED and… Anyways, this made me feel a bit better: ) (From cuz K’s FB feed)
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Site Recovery
We’ve been down for more than a week due to hard disk failure on the server plus many other problems that have been just a real bitch to resolve… Let’s see if the site stays up. To reduce load on the server, we’re gonna try serving cached pages for unknown users for a while.
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The Westernization of Thailand
This was all all procured locally. This part of the world will be hit with a metabolic syndrome epidemic in the coming years that will surely rival that of Mexico and their pudgy northern neighbors – we have a Starbucks three minutes from my house, for Christ’s sake. Note: This round of Hate Gaijin Expansion may be finished for now.
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Neither Washington nor Colorado
Forty years of failed US drug policy has culminated in my daughter wearing what appears to be an anti-hemp headband in her preschool parade in Thailand… A country where you can buy marijuana-seasoned chicken soup (not easily, but still), but where possessing it can get you all kinds of ganked, gaffled, or even shot by the police, all thanks to US drug policy. In fairness, there were also anti-drinking, -smoking, and -injecting headbands worn by other kids, and the only thing frowned upon among those by Theravada Buddhism is the alcohol. That’s why Buddhism is so fucking cool – in a place with such high road fatalities due to DUI,…
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The Hidden River
Last month, the kids and I went searching for a hidden river rumored to run along the property line of our friend’s dirt farm (have no idea what he’ll end up growing there, but it’ll have to be something hardy!!). We went as far as the eucalyptus stand, but didn’t find it. It was a fairly hot day.
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View from a remote Amazon Coffee
The sun shining just right can make anything look good. Photo by Taro Machino.
