We did not go anywhere....it was a full day.

Yesterday we did not go anywhere! I started out the day reading the Bangkok Post and the Nation that I got yesterday, it was a beautiful morning. Both papers are full of interesting information. You can go to their web sites. The Bangkok Post also has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. I also visited some of my old haunts like 2bangkok.com and thaiblogs.com. It was odd to view these sites from Thailand.

I emailed Richard and asked for an appointment. It looks like we might visit tomorrow. I also added many blog entries to my blog. I am getting caught up. I still get kicked off the Internet consistently, but at least I can make contact. We also had contractors putting up eaves on the house to catch the rain for irrigation.

I am adding to my list of Thai words, it will be slow. I hope my Rosetta Stone Thai training CD comes soon. It will be two weeks this Thursday since we mailed the packages.

Jit helped some of her friends make Kow-Tom-Mud for resale. It is quite a process, preparing the leaves and the stuffing, wrapping the leaves around the stuffing and then cooking everything in big round stainless steel pans. I took some pictures of the process. Some of the pictures are on film since I needed a high speed lens. In Thailand, if you want to use natural light, you need fast lenses and high speed film. Many places are dim.

I want to see more Monitor Lizards. My Lonely Planet book says they are hao chaang, but the people in the community call them toue thong. Anyway seeing a large reptile swim in a lake is a very new experience to me. I have seen them twice.

Jit bought a new phone, it is a desk phone that has a crazy musical ring tone and a color display. Sort of adding cell phone features to a desk phone. I need to look at it more carefully.

Bung, who cooks for the royal family invited us to dinner again, the food was varied and excellent. I learned that I had eaten frogs after the fact. When we were in Ranong we saw frogs being raised. The desert, some sticky rice in a banana leaf, with a yellow custard was excellent. I want some now!!!

When we were leaving one of the girls, about 12, was playing her xylophone. It was a large wooden xylophone that was suspended between the ends of a large wooden body, the body almost looked like a boat. It was great. When we got home we could hear the xylophone playing through the garden. I asked where she learned to play the xylophone and she said in school. An education system that can effectively pass on cultural traditions has something going right for it.

Early this morning there was a very heavy rain and thunder storm. It is still thundering. There is also a lot of noise from the port, something is being loaded into ships. Some times you can here the ships very clearly.

Today we will also stay around the house and community.

Some of the IT related places that I want to visit are a WiMax demonstration community, the Virtual Hill Trip Museum, the Internet bus, and Richard Barrow Paknam Web Network. There are previous links on this blog that document these locations. From my very brief experience a traveling Internet station might be a valuable tool to share web resources. Equally important would be to have practical and useful tools to demonstrate the value of the information on the Internet.