Morning Light, Spiders, a black Mercedes 190, and fussing with a computer

This morning I went walking in the park early because of the morning light, I was feeling in black and white but using color. I can convert the images to black and white when I get them back.

Last night, when I woke up in the middle of the night, there was a large spider on the ceiling, sort of unnerving, but they do eat other bugs. It is easy to let my imagination make the spider more scary then it is. The spider is very fast and very alert.

Yesterday I worked on my computer, there was a problem with my web server and I had to work with my ISP in Texas to get it worked out, I learned a lot. My notebook has some kind of erratic problem with the CD, sometimes it can read a disk and sometimes not, I finally got it to record a CD of pictures from the sports day so I can make some pictures for the community.

Jit is spending the night at the hospital with her mother, yesterday afternoon we went to Phra Pradaeng. I got a CD that would not read transferred to my USB flash drive, we had a good meal, and then Jit went shopping, I found a place, out of the flow of peoples to just watch, I love Phra Pradaeng, it has no tourist illusions, it is just a working town, very dense and very busy. As I was watching a old black Mercedes Benz 190, maybe 1959 or so, went driving by, very good condition, with silvered mirror film on the windows, the car stopped, picked up somebody, and then turned around and went back out of town.

In the morning I was fussing getting my STOU presentation to look presentable in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. I converted my Word document using many different settings, but it still looked odd, I finally had to search and replace on a single character to get it to look OK. There still is a problem, Internet Explorer will not center the table that I am using, but Firefox will. I also downloaded and used Nvu, a free Web page editor. I like it and will use it in my "Using Internet Technology" course that I will teach in the fall.

I am starting to think more about Alaska, imagining what it will be like to be home. I am worried about being bored, but also looking forward to having some autonomy and competence.

Next Sunday we are having the house warming with the monks and the community visiting. I do not know how it will all work out with Jit's mom being in the hospital until next Thursday, but we will see.