If you haven’t already noticed, I’ve posted all the new site graphics that I made while I was in Thailand. This comes with a special thanks to my girl friend for taking the time to upload all the files from her laptop since they didn’t burn properly on the DVD I made just before my departure. I couldn’t have done it without you Mahal!

Hope you like it, I do.

Cheers

Seth

Finally after 44 hours of traveling, lay-overs, cold stiff and erroded seat cusions accompanied by endless hours of elevator music and voices of beautiful women on the intercom tralling out

I just finished developing a new set of graphics buttons for my site. Of course I haven’t done any re-touching yet, or even tested them out. So I’m not sure how much more work it will take before I like the final result, but at least I’ve gotten the ball rolling for retooling my site. I still have some new title graphics to work on, and I haven’t even started to restructure the site itself, however, getting the buttons done is an important first step.

The last few days here in Thailand I’ve been down with a BAD cough and I haven’t been able to do much of anything. My girl friend finally went out and got some Robitussin. Ever since then I’ve been on the rebound, thus I’m doing much better now. Only about 1 more week here and I’ll be flying back to the US.

At this point I can feel I’m already starting to miss this place and I haven’t even left it. Mostly because I won’t be with my girl friend any more, but also because the weather here is absolutely AMAZING, and I just know the weather in Minnesota is going to be nothing but crud for another

After the basket ball game this last weekend a bunch of the guys all had a party and we ate some food from the Philippines, well prepared Pinoy Style, since the food didn’t actually come from the Philippines. You see all the friends I’ve been hanging out with here are from the Philippines, they are all international teachers. After the food, one of the guys here let me borrow his motorbike, and he borrowed the keys to another motorbike from his friend and the two of us went on a joy ride through the local country side. I didn’t have a helmet because most helmets in Thailand are made for Thia people and Thia people tend to have smaller heads then western people. So I didn’t have a helmet, but helmets are required in Thailand.

The joy ride was really great, I got up to third gear and passed the guy I was riding with, then we turned around and started back a different route. On the last turn before getting to their drive way by their flat, there was a speed trap set by a whole bunch of Thai Policemen. They had pulled over a bunch of motor cycles and where busy writing tickets.

Before I continue I should tell you that people here in Thailand don’t say English words quite like they do in the USA. For instance Ice Cream is pronounced Ice-a-cream, and Stop is pronounced Sa-Top.

So I look at the police officers as I ride past them and first one then two officers see me and shout after me “Sa-Top, Sa-Top!” I just kept going like I didn’t understand them, because truthfully it didn’t really register that they wanted me to stop until I was already around the corner. My friend and I kept going until we got to our drive way, we pulled in and got off. Then we all had a good laugh about the Thia Police, they joked that I’ll get my ticket in the mail later.

Cheers

Seth

Last night I was invited to play some hoops Thai style, well actually it’s the same as any ole basketball game around the world. So it’s not like they play with their teeth or anything like that. Only difference is the weather is about as spicy as the food. (HOT) Thus working the ball around the court tends to produce copious amounts of sweat.

Our team lost the game, but anyways it’s not really about winning or loosing, just out to have some fun, and it’s been ages since I played hoops anyways. Best part is I made some good friends while I was at it. They want to learn more about computers and programming, so hopefully I can help them out. When you guys get here, I wish you all a warm welcome.