Rain....really!

Imagine a thunderstorm in Fairbanks. Usually there is peak of rain intensity. Imagine that intensity lasting for hours. That is what is was like last night and this morning. It is still raining. On the news there is flooding in Bangkok, but that is normal. Up north, where there are mountains and streams I can understand how flash floods suddenly appear. It is the rainy season, but usually it has been thunderstorms and rain at night and the early morning. This rain is very different. Another experience.

I need to get caught up on a few experiences. Sunday Jit's mother came over from the other house. It was good to see her over here. I managed to get a few pictures of Jit's mom, Run, and Jit. I will post them later today.

Jit and I walked around the park and dropped in to park headquarters. Jit had a long talk with two women who were working there about the park and the community. Many people care about this park, it is sad to see park leadership that is not maintaining and developing the park, even in its current state of neglect the park is a wonderful place to relax and explore. I will be posting pictures, and when I return to Alaska, a web site about the park.

There is a large building in downtown Bangkok that is of the Assumption University school of architecture. It has a capital dome on top, and cathedral window above the entrance, and many other random classical motifs. Like Assumption University it is almost surrealistic. But, think of the USA capital in Washington DC, and think of many universities in the United States, they to have Greek and Roman architectural influences randomly pasted together, it is the same thing. I think the use of classical architecture conveys authority to an institution. When I see something as strange , odd, or different, I need to step back and try to use the same perspective on what I am used to, what I think as normal. When I do that I often find more similarity then difference.

Bandwidth matters, I was going to share my Creamers field web site to show the seasons of Alaska, but the bandwidth was too slow, it took forever to load. In the future I will try to create two web sites, one for low bandwidth. I think it will be easy to do, use the same structure and use Adobe Elements 3 to save them at a different level of compression. I was surprised at how slow the web site was. Another lesson.