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A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • Yes, the gaps between these are increasing; That’s because I’m slowing down. I expected it to happen, so … I’m not surprised. New Years Eve arrived on schedule. Apparently there’s a thing about releasing lanterns at New Year’s, so that…

  • Another high turnover day at About A Bed, with 19 beds checking out, though only 18 checking in. Phai the Owner mentioned that she was waiting to see whether there would be an Off The Street walk-in to take that…

  • Bit of a nothing day today. I didn’t sleep badly, but I didn’t sleep for long periods, and had trouble getting back to sleep, so that wasn’t great. I hindsight, sleeping in wasn’t the best approach, because that rarely works;…

  • There’s not much to say about the last few days, I don’t think. I read a lot, in a variety of locations. I wrote a bit, because my creative brain seems to be slowing coming back on-line. I enjoyed being…

  • Mostly, just a regular day in Chiang Mai, though I did sleep in & have some somewhat festive biscuits for breakfast. I say somewhat because there’s a limit to how Christmassy a box of shortbread-adjacent snacks from the slightly larger…

  • I slept well, and I slept in. The hotel does have a breakfast cafe, but I went elsewhere because it was pretty late by the time I was functional. I regret none of this. My thing for today¹ was to…

  • A month or so back, I booked a hotel over the Christmas period, because I wanted to be sure to have somewhere nice to stay, and because I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Christmas this year;…

  • They’re changing the guard at Buckingham Palace upgrading something with the electrical utilities in the area, street by street, and this morning was the turn of the street the hostel is on, so we had no power between 0900 &…

  • I hadn’t heard noticed initially, but my cough got a whole lot better when I got here, which might be because of air quality? Less vehicles, maybe. Anyway, the air is clearer, as are my airways. Breakfast from the place…

  • Yeah, that one was weak. My review of the night bus to Chiang Mai is “probably don’t”. Got into CM even earlier than I expected, at 5:30 or so, and ran into the problem that almost nothing, including the hostel…

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