Yep, Another Day in Mae Sai

Another day in Mae Sai; up at 6:00 AM and breakfast in the Ban Pa Meat morning market.

The fellow on the left, with his head down working, is "Me's" husband.  He is the Pa Thong Ko maker.

Same stuff for breakfast, I love it.  I had Soy Milk, Pa Thong Ko, Coffee, Tea, Fried Chicken and Sticky Rice.

Daeng talked with "Me" and I made a deal with the market beggar, "SuLa".  The deal is if he takes a shower, cleans his finger nails and puts on clean clothes I'll give him 100 Thai Baht.

Now, that may not help him, as a beggar, because if he cleans up folks will think he is doing okay, they won't fell sorry for him or give him any money.

More will be revealed.

I wanted to tell that the Thais have gotten around my saying: "Life is like a roll of toilet tissue as the closer you get to the end the faster it goes!"

How they got around that saying is they take the center of the roll out and use it from the inside.  You have got to give them credit.

When we got back home, Daeng let "Bang's" little boy play with the Dancing Santa that our friends, Micheal and Charlotte, gave her.  He and Santa did a little dance.

Life is good.

Back to Work & Jury duty

We got back to the USA and went right to work fixing air conditioning systems. I love to work as it gives me a sense of accomplishment.

Daeng had trouble with jet-lag for over a week but after three weeks she is back in the swing of things.

Today I'm sitting in the Jury Room as a juror. I have been sitting in the same seat for seven hours except for restroom breaks. Another hour or two and we should be dismissed.

Although I am not real crazy about being a juror if makes me real happy to be an American.

A trial with a jury of our piers is not something that is available in most countries.

Although we have things like the "Well from Hell" in the Gulf of Mexico and a recession causing trouble with all our livelihoods, life is still pretty good here in the old USA.