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Panic, or maybe just good old-fashioned anxiety, has set in. At first it was caused by the cost of buying furniture. Looking at the different furniture we’d like to get in our basically unfurnished apartment, it seems …
Bangkok, my new home. I arrived on Monday evening after a very long 24-hour journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles to Tokyo to Bangkok. The LAX-NRT leg was not upgraded so I was squeezed into Economy class. Not so …
Saturday morning in San Francisco. It is bright, sunny, and quite cold! A summer living in Kansas City has immunized me against the heat, I guess. My trip out here was good but then turned into a mess at the very en…
So I packed my bags for my San Francisco - Bangkok trip last night. This is the first of three trips on which I'll move most of my things to Bangkok in order to set up residence there. This is where I'm at: three suitc…
Item number 4,327 on my pre-departure to-do list: make backup copies of all my important computer files. Step 1: borrow a CD burner from my brother in law Step 2: go back to my brother in law for help when the software…
The biggest and most elaborate human performance on earth is the Mass Games in North Korea. A grand spectacle of socialist realism, the games are built around gymnastics, montage, and music and feature a cast of tens of…
What in the Lord's good name is President Bush doing? He's made one long string of bozo moves after another. Is anyone in America paying attention? If so, why aren't more people outraged? Bush initiated a tax break…
Sorry for the delay in posting - I spent most of the weekend at Jennifer and Kevin's new house, painting shelves, lining other shelves with contact paper, and trying to make myself useful. Last night I babysat Emily, my…
Another weekend in San Francisco has come to a too-early end. It was fun seeing Anita, Paul, and Bob - and we had a good dinner last night at Thai House on Market Street. One of Thai guys Tawn hung around with for a wh…
Yesterday I returned from a 22-hour mileage run on United Airlines' P.S. service from SFO-JFK. The trip report is here. Lots of pictures of planes, especially some of jetBlue just for Michael, Patrick, and Bill. It wa…
Out in San Francisco this weekend to visit friends. Paul and I took BART out Friday evening to see Bruce and Howie. They live out in San Ramon, 45 miles east of the City. Bruce's parents were in town from the cent…

christao408

- Name: Chris
- Country: Thailand
- Metro: Krung Thep
- Birthday: 11/16/1970
- Gender: Male
- Member Since: 8/2/2004
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