Day To Day Life.

Life is going to become somewhat ordinary from now on. Or as ordinary as it can get here in Laos. We are moving from the guest house, to above the office. This will save on rent, but does carry other problems. The room upstairs, is one big space, which at times we will have to share with Mr Sombat when he is in Laos.

Some of the guys have built Sam a room within a room, being a girl and all. So when he stays I will share the space with him and Sam will have to sleep in her own room. It's all just the Laos way, and I'm sure we'll be able to cope with it.

An advantage to it is that we have pretty much our own space, and that once the office is closed we can use the downstairs as a living space too. Mr Khansome has brought in his computer, so we can watch movies on that on a night. They do have a TV in the office, put to tune it in you have to turn the ariel around, plus it will only get Thai TV at best.

Anyway, if Lotus throw some money our way we will able to afford a pretty big house to stay in for our time here. Everything is progressing, but timescales are still a little up in the air. We know that we will be here at least for 3 months, supporting the CDEA, beyond that we really don't know.

I took back the book I was reading to the book shop today. I got Thomas Mann's Death In Venice (and seven other stories), what a load of crap! High-brow literature my arse! A load of dodgy Aryan child-porn, if you ask me. Far too much descriptions of young boys with long blond hair, that look like Greek gods. I flicked through the other stories, and at each turn of the page it was the same un-nerving descriptions of youth, all being admired by old men. Hmmm! Wouldn't like to say I think Thomas Mann wrote Germanic gay wank mags, but... That is what they are in my critical opinion.

Anyway I swapped it for I Robot, as you can't go wrong with a bit of Asimov.

Not much else to say really, we are starting to get our heads around the massive task ahead of us in bringing the CDEA up-to-scratch. We have to start at the very basics and work from there, but I'm sure we will manage to make some head-way. Even though I'm also sure that we'll have a number of headaches along the way also.