Weather has been reasonably predictable - rain in the evenings/mornings, and nice during the daytime itself. We have had some fun people come through the guesthouse, firstly we had a couple from Darbyshire, who were very fun - we shall have to catch up with them when we get to the UK. Apparently there’s a bar called “The Spanker” which they like… much amusement

The other notable guest is a lovely lady called Pippa who is from somewhere in north London. She’s nice and laid back, and we’ve shared dinner for the last two nights. Plans for tomorrow are to possibly get the BBQ out, and make a pile of seafood madness.

There’s a French couple who have arrived today, they’re very french and a little middle aged Their english isn’t too bad, however they’re a little distant, plan is to invite them to this BBQ tomorrow, which might break the ice some (beer always works!).

Marie took a lovely photo of the place we’re staying last night when we were in the canoe, so I’ve attached it. I get more and more impressed by our little camera.

I’ve also been coding a fair bit whilst here - working on a smugmug API library for AppleScript.. it’s getting there nicely now. It’s awesome to have time and motivation again to do my own coding projects, as opposed to work. I need to remember this and keep some time free when I start another job. It also feels good to keep a hand in as it were, and not forget the whole IT/coding side of things.

What else… we got confirmation today that the refund has gone though for our stay at the Banpu - so we now have 10 nights with absolutely nothing planned. We have a list of possibles, so the plan (sic) is to pick some random things off there, and basically take it as it comes. Hopefully we can leave our other huge suitcase at the Hotel we’re staying in before we leave, and possibly obtain/use a large backpack type thing for this period to save hassles. I’m very much looking forward to just randomly doing stuff and seeing more of this incredible country.

We also now have UK cellphone numbers thanks to my wonderful sister Marie is +447873723286 and I am +447873723321. These won’t work untill we hit the UK obviously, however it’s great to have the numbers to put on the CV’s now for looking for jobs.

Speaking of jobs.. the hunt starts next week, we’re now only three weeks out from the UK, so it’s a reasonable time to start spamming recruiters and the like to see what’s going on. I need to have a good look at a map of London, and work out where things are in terms of work/accomodation. Roumor has it we can stay with Leighton when we’re there, which gives us an awesome base. I’m very much looking forward to catching up with him, and Hayden, and I hear Michael Reynolds is also over there now which is fabulous. It’s going to be really cool to catch up with these guys again

Right.. that’s pretty much enough for now.. except that I’m also going to have a rss rant. For those of you still visiting the site for updates, you need to discover the fun of a rss reader. There are a few options, here are one or two

1. If you run Mozilla Thunderbird, you can tell it to keep an eye on our rss feed (linked on the left sidebar)
2. If you don’t, you can go to google.com/reader and it works very nicely, this is cool if you watch more than one blog, as it collects all the posts into one place and looks like gmail Just put in the address of our blog to subscribe, and google will work out the rss bit automagically
3. Google for “rss reader” and see if you can find a piece of software that you like.. this is quite a cool option if you check many blogs, and like the idea of a seperate application.
4. If you run a mac, netnewswire lite is free, and I quite like it It keeps me in touch with a couple of blogs, and whatever new software comes out for the blackbook etc.

Right.. rss rant over Back to our regular scheduled cutting