01/05: OK, OK!
With a little prodding, I am finally putting something on the site again. Sorry for the delay, thanks for still visiting every so often. What to tell?
Well, the Gypsy Camp is fairly anchored now on Koh Tao.
We bought some comfort stuff (TV, DVD player, fan), and are pretty content. My little office for work is the balcony-- not a bad view.
We've gotten into our routines pretty well, trying to do as much diving as we can at Scuba Junction-- we're averageing four days of diving at a time every couple weeks. We can do better though... Marie also signed up for her Dive Master Training today and will be studying up while we are in Los Angeles starting next week.
Marie's sister (Johanna) was here with her boyfriend (Fredrick) and daughter (Josefine) for two weeks. Josefine the Destroyer. She didn't like her uncle Patrick that much. Well, actually, she really just didn't like her uncle Patrick holding her. Guess she was afraid of me 'cause I speak funny (not Swedish). Can only imagine what she would have thought when I had Dreadlocks!
We stayed at a really fancy hotel in Koh Samui, the Imperial Boathouse. We splurged in celebration of Marie's second twentyith birthday (20+20). Our room was a converted teak rice barge, two stories in a suite configuration. Really cute place, although you could feel the motion of the waves when people walked around... despite the fact that it was moored safely a few meters above the water line.
When we made it back to Koh Tao with them, the room we had reserved for our guests at our resort (Bow Thong) had been rented out to someone else who was willing to pay more for it. This is Thailand. We won't make the mistake of putting people up here again!
Josefine's stroller got quite a workout in the sands of Koh Tao and Samui. Its life had pretty well been sucked out after two weeks.
We saw them off in Samui last week, and they are now safely back in Sweden. Next up, Marie's Parents in June!
I'm working pretty much now, as a contractor to my former company. Should help us cover the added costs due to the dollar's plunge (12% since December!). I like it, despite the fact that I have to deal with two classes of people I generally try to avoid: Insurance Agents and Lawyers. Maybe I am just jealous. Or something else. (The real lawyer in question, my cousin Patty, is of course an exception. It's other people's lawyers that I have a problem with!)
That's about all I can think to say now. I never finished cleaning up the HTML on MoonshineFantasy... and I feel guilty of putting more stuff up there until it is clean. Sad but true. Maybe on the flight back...
Hope all is well with everyone.
Well, the Gypsy Camp is fairly anchored now on Koh Tao.
We bought some comfort stuff (TV, DVD player, fan), and are pretty content. My little office for work is the balcony-- not a bad view.We've gotten into our routines pretty well, trying to do as much diving as we can at Scuba Junction-- we're averageing four days of diving at a time every couple weeks. We can do better though... Marie also signed up for her Dive Master Training today and will be studying up while we are in Los Angeles starting next week.
Marie's sister (Johanna) was here with her boyfriend (Fredrick) and daughter (Josefine) for two weeks. Josefine the Destroyer. She didn't like her uncle Patrick that much. Well, actually, she really just didn't like her uncle Patrick holding her. Guess she was afraid of me 'cause I speak funny (not Swedish). Can only imagine what she would have thought when I had Dreadlocks!
We stayed at a really fancy hotel in Koh Samui, the Imperial Boathouse. We splurged in celebration of Marie's second twentyith birthday (20+20). Our room was a converted teak rice barge, two stories in a suite configuration. Really cute place, although you could feel the motion of the waves when people walked around... despite the fact that it was moored safely a few meters above the water line.
When we made it back to Koh Tao with them, the room we had reserved for our guests at our resort (Bow Thong) had been rented out to someone else who was willing to pay more for it. This is Thailand. We won't make the mistake of putting people up here again!
Josefine's stroller got quite a workout in the sands of Koh Tao and Samui. Its life had pretty well been sucked out after two weeks.
We saw them off in Samui last week, and they are now safely back in Sweden. Next up, Marie's Parents in June!
I'm working pretty much now, as a contractor to my former company. Should help us cover the added costs due to the dollar's plunge (12% since December!). I like it, despite the fact that I have to deal with two classes of people I generally try to avoid: Insurance Agents and Lawyers. Maybe I am just jealous. Or something else. (The real lawyer in question, my cousin Patty, is of course an exception. It's other people's lawyers that I have a problem with!)
That's about all I can think to say now. I never finished cleaning up the HTML on MoonshineFantasy... and I feel guilty of putting more stuff up there until it is clean. Sad but true. Maybe on the flight back...
Hope all is well with everyone.
