A cock and bull story

Sunday 12th

I woke up this morning with a particularly sore back. Even with my extra mattress these beds are very hard. I also discovered in my rush to get in last night, I left the key in the door.

Another long day at the office. Fixed the plotting problems, added a new excel report and did some other tidying up. Panu is working late to get the new spreadsheets ready and out to the sites. Not sure why these weren't sent out weeks ago so there would be a whole lot of data already available for testing.

I am trying to plan my trip to US since I'll have to get on to that asap. Probably a similar itinerary to last time with a direct flight there and coming back via Hong Kong. I've seen that Cathay have flights to Perth at a more sociable time than the Qantas one I took last time. Leaving at 3pm and getting in late a night, instead of flying over night. They also have flight to Adelaide so perhaps I'll come that way and see family.

Weather was better today but since I'm inside in an air conditioned office it doesn't really affect me much. As we drove back to the hotel tonight, there were lots of kids and teenagers with water pistols, hoses or buckets chucking water at each other and at cars. Only one of them actually wet us. Normally April is the hottest month but the rains seem to have come early this year. There wasn't any point in the kids being out last night as everyone would have got wet from the downpour.

I watched quite a bit of the golf tonight and then the film "Beowulf". The insects were particularly bad tonight.

It seems we all got out of Pattaya at a good time. The Red shirts turned up the next day protesting at the ASEAN conference there. I heard somebody got killed but didn't see anything in the paper.

The photo is of a gate to a farm just out of Wichian Buri on the main road to Bangkok. I'd seen it several times before and finally got a shot of it. Presumably they raise chicken and cattle there.