Porthole

47th week of the Year 180. Year of the Dragon.

Groan **Animated Image Unavailable** (exercise) = Exor. (observations) = obsv. (s***,shave,shower) = ss&s. (read something) = read. (comment blogs/newsfeed/notebook) = bogs. (BoyLove series on-line) = ytBL. (Thai TV BL series on GMMTV25) = tv25. (write poetry or prose) = PorP. (take a daily walk) = walk. (buy something) = shop. (take a photo) = foto. (video) = วิดีโอ. (speak Thai/Lao) = pôod. (learn Thai) Thai. (go-into-the-water) = pool. (dirty clothes) = wash. (cook something) = cook. (tidy up) = mess. (travel) = trip. (noon) = เที่ยง. (talking to ex-pats/travelers/strangers in European) = chat. (Thai teaching book) = book. (hand written journal) = jour. (contests) = test. (water) = agua. (market) = ตลาด. (WdC weekly goals challenge) = week. ฟอรั่ม (forums) = QotD, Xin8,X40w,Hook,P-Me,BcoF,Bar,SH,Stik. (National Blog Post Month) NBPM.
(scrub toes) = toes; (clean and unclutter) = neat; (Senior Center) = SCTR;

11 februar 11 กุมภาพันธ์
blog. "Let love come to me" 
wash. clothes hung up to dry. new machines have added rinse cycle. About 3 hours late.
food. made 8 roast beast provolone sandwiches, eat 1. for my trip.
ss&s.
didn't finish packing.
count money. have NT$, baht, US$.

10 februar 10 กุมภาพันธ์

LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DRAGON

ss&s. Showered. Shaved.
blog. "At least there'll be rainbows." 
walk.
chat. Travis, others.
shop. sandwich makings for trip.
neat. some progress with plants.

9 februar 9 กุมภาพันธ์

Showered and scrubbed my toes. "As I gently scrub my toes" I think of George Harrison.
Bank - transfered money.
PO - received mail, returned something sent to the wrong address.
Said good bye to lots of folks. Visited Butterfly Herbs.
Video of snow. Posted at FB, sent to Pan.

8 februar 8 กุมภาพันธ์

Showered. Vomited. Coffee! Good start to the day.
Saw Merry and sat with Laxmi.
Wrote a smidgeon.
Keeping up with daily messages to Pan.

I don't mind receiving MBs for my writing.

Electrifying

2nd place for "Round 8"  
The public sleigh wasn't running today and this old horse-of-a-sort struggled to reach Karegnondi City and the Spires of Freedom. We were trapped in traffic in a suburb of shards out on Georgian Bay.

Thoughts:

We carried a hundred kilos of fish we had harvested, enough to feed us and our neighbors through this Season of Starvation that our ancestors had once called March. We made haste in spite of the added weight. The storm was approaching from Hudson Bay. It was Wednesday and the ice glimmered in a shade of indigo.

February: Babiana wasn't just a Black Hand with a stiletto up her sleeve. Her father had butchered/chopped-up pigs and goats with a knife/blade like the one she grasped behind her back.

7 februar 7 กุมภาพันธ์

Awake at 07:35 reading news? Time for a shower.
Chatted with friends at Sr. Ctr.
Checked on seats for LAX-TPE flight but decided to wait.
Sorting out clothes to wash on Sunday.
Read letters schnujo sent from Falklands.
Finding places to stay in Taiwan.

Bard's Hall Town Crier

3rd place for

STATIC

I'm Frank's Friend  (13+) I don't like the cold. I should go somewhere warm. #2313136 by Kåre เลียม Enga

6 februar 6 กุมภาพันธ์

Washed underwear for the next six days.
Progress on telling people my plans.
Showered but didn't scrub toes.
Finished Pit Babe Ep. 11.
communicating with Allen re Taiwan.

5 februar 5 กุมภาพันธ์

trip. bought ticket to Taipei.
bath.
SrCtr. picked up my cut glass bowl. Saw Laxmi, Robin, Ann and others.

Weekly goals "Goals for 2/5-2/11"  

Finalize travel to Taiwan (leaving 2/12). Hostel , seats on plane , packing , contact friends (mostly done).
Wash clothes by Sunday morning to have dry by Monday morning. Ready for the morning.
Clean kitchen area and throw out stuff, remove dead plants and rearrange live ones. Progress.
Contact people who need to know I'm 1. leaving Montana and 2. going back to Thailand. Mostly done. I've been telling everyone.
Decide on paying rent here in MT (how many months in advance). Wrote a check for 4 months taking me through the end of July.

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