Failure

Hi,
We're still being dazed and confused and grateful by/for the generosity of the Thai people. We're becoming 'regulars' around town and we're greeted with big smiles. There's a man who sells and repairs watches that we'd see everyday while we lived at the hotel. We call him 'The Watch Guy'. We've run into him a few times away from his shop and he always has a big grin and a greeting. As I've mentioned before, the Tuk-Tuk drivers are getting the idea and they're very pleased that we love Thailand. That seems to be the sentiment: if you love our country well enough to stay, then we love you.
"You consider me the young apprentice, caught between the scylla and charybidis. Hypnotized by you if I should linger. Staring at the ring around your finger......__ __ __ __ __ __,(repeat)" Clues: I know, baffling lines, but it was a hit by a trio, in the mid 80s.
Yesterday, among the errands that I mentioned, was a little excursion with Nut, to a store we'd heard about that had art paper. We had look in most of the stationary stores we'd seen, but without success. She showed us three stores with a variety of art supplies and lots of other things for sale. I couldn't resist taking a picture of the guitars and soccer balls, or the store with conga drums next to the dumbells. These are truly variety stores.
Today we got the final shipment of furniture. The teak is in the house. It's more amazing than we remembered. I'll post the pics so you can see for yourself. We were at our language lesson when the stuff arrived, so it was a nice surprise. A little later, Jen and the boys came over and brought a vegetarian dinner to share with us. There has been a ten day vegetarian festival going on and they wanted us to have an 'experience', I guess. I was able to eat one of the dishes plus some rice. I couldn't have the glass noodles because they were hot (can't eat hot) and the other dish was tofu (can't do soy). Poor thing. During dinner, as always, the subject turned to language and we ended up teaching them some English words and working past some pronunciation problems. In LOS, 'v' usually sounds like 'w', as in 'tee-wee' for T.V.
Tomorrow Pat is taking us out to look at land. We're going to check out various parts of town and also see just how big one rai looks. Two and a half rai equals one acre. Add to that the fact that everything is referred to in meters or kilometers and I'm totally lost. Show me what it looks like. I'll let you know.
One last thing. I went to the DVD store and discovered they had a whole row of Roswell, one of our favs. We got to the counter, all ready for a marathon only to find out that there was no English on the disc. Now that's just wrong.
Have a Tasty Tuesday.

Peace,
Danny

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"If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
~Mary Pickford


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