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Koh Kood Resort
This resort is on the beach but the rooms face a small village. In the light of dawn it looked like a shantytown. Went swimming in the ocean while it was raining and it was awesome; I was alone in a warm bath taking a cold shower.
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Koh Kood diving spot
There were loads of fish here and most were unafraid of people.
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Crispy durian for lunch
Crispy as in slightly unripe. It was delicious.
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Monsoon Season
A big storm blew through here yesterday… At one point, it was gusting as hard as I’ve ever seen it. The reeds at the edge of the pond were blowing sideways, and the doors of the house seemed unsure of whether to blow in or out. The babies were sleeping at the time, and stayed that way even though the thunder seemed to boom right over us and the lightning tripped the Saf-T-Cut twice. Nam was still at work, and the street in front of our house flooded a bit, but not as bad as last time. The storm blew over and the sun came out. The babies eventually woke…
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Downtime monitoring via Google Docs
This is the coolest idea for a site monitor: Use Google Docs to Monitor Your Website’s Uptime I’ve set it up and I’ll check it when I get back from my faculty trip (we leave tonight for Koh Kud).
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RIP MCA
One of the most important bands to me.
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Skating at HB State Beach / Easter Candy Hunt
There’s tons of vids on my drive but it takes a long time to get to those, ya know? Anyway, the community Easter egg hunt was cool except for the lack of eggs (Lack of funding? Envirobullshit? No one knew.).
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We are Legion, or the Ts have already won.
– NOTICE OF BAGGAGE INSPECTION – To protect you and your fellow passengers, the XSA is required by law to steal your wife’s panties and confiscate your house keys so you can’t get in when you arrive home from your 26 hour flight at midnight inspect all checked baggage. Your bag was among those selected for physical inspection (possibly because it contained used women’s undergarments). During the inspection, your bag and its contents may have been searched for prohibited or tantalizing items. At the completion of the inspection, many of the contents were returned to your bag (albeit not in the orderly or sensible fashion in which they were originally…
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all made of stars / bit by a bad dog
We just got back to our house last night and it is all crazy unpacking, cleaning house (plus spontaneous furniture rearrangement) and getting ready for school (for Mina only) and work tomorrow, but I need to write this down lest I forget… We arrived here in the middle of a ferocious heatwave; the locals say it got so hot that water buffalo died because they got too hot and their livers burst (!). We took the kids to play at the big bounce house at Big C and basically sweated out their own body weight. Then I dropped off everybody at home because I had to change out a bad…
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Airport waiting
Time for the long journey home, boarding in five minutes. LAX does itself no favors instituting a mandatory full body search for parents carrying baby milk, and the comically serious airport policeman cruising around these hallways on a Segway makes things seem so… LA.
